State: Ended
Genre: Crime
Origin:
United Kingdom
Developed by: Sally Wainwright and Diane Taylor
Stars: Lesley Sharp, Amelia Bullmore and Suranne Jones
IMDb score:
8,0 (12.397)
Releasedate: Sunday 29 May 2011
This TV Show is not available on US streaming services.
Scott & Bailey plot
Detective Rachel Bailey is thirty years old, down-to-earth, loud and single. She is a hardworking, dedicated detective. She was in a relationship with a lawyer, Nick, until he left her for another woman. Detective Janet Scott is forty years old, a diplomat and a thinker, but at the same time a woman with two teenage girls. She had very strong reasons for becoming a detective - a friend was murdered when she was a child and the crime was never solved.
Actors and actresses
DC Janet Scott
DCI Gill Murray
DC/Sgt. Rachel Bailey
Nick Savage
DS Andy Roper
Sgt. Rob Waddington
PC Sean McCartney
Alison Bailey
Adrian Scott
DC Lee Broadhurst
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Opinions about Scott & Bailey
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Suitehome
- 924 comments
- 589 votes
Somehow I never had the opportunity to watch the five seasons of Scott & Bailey. But I can tick off S1 and S2 after more than a decade. Scott & Bailey is good British drama. Set against the backdrop of the Major Incident Team (MIT) at Manchester Police Station, protagonists and detective constables Rachel Bailey (Suranne Jones - Doctor Foster, Gentlemen Jack) and Janet Scott (Lesley Sharp - Before We Die ) the linchpin in solving the crimes and the rather hectic entanglements in their private lives. Jones and Sharp show why they are celebrated actresses here; Sharp in particular is on a roll as the empathetic Janet. Suranne Jones needs more of her youthful presence, but her acting is good and more convincing than what she sometimes shows nowadays (Vigil).
Creator Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Coronation Street) has developed a fine drama together with Suranne Jones, full of power women. The men on duty get off badly and are dorky, cocky or horny. Or just not that smart. What is particularly striking is that the crimes - solved within 40 minutes - still have sufficient expressiveness. The risk of fragmentation and superficiality is skilfully avoided. Special mention to Amelia Bullmore as DCI Gill Murray, who leads MIT in WoManchester in a beautiful and powerful way. Although logically somewhat dated, Scott & Bailey is rock solid.
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ZAP!
- 2762 comments
- 728 votes
Very nice series with again two policewomen in the lead role. It (the murder cases, the sober way of investigating, etc.) is well put together and the personal troubles of the two are naturally woven through it. And I quite simply like those two, Suranne Jones as Bailey and Lesley Sharp as Scott - with all the quirks that come with their characters.
Thick 3.5*.
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