TELEVISION DETECTIVES OFTEN seem familiar. They are usually male, divorced and drink too much. They miss their kids. Sometimes they are alcoholics, battling to not even take a whiff of the hard stuff. Their ex-wives are attractive — much more so than their dishevelled former husbands — and happily coupled up with a much more stable/handsome/richer new squeeze.
The tropes are popular, because they work. The challenge for writers is to make the cop in question sufficiently engaging and original within these creative confines.
, now showing on BBC iPlayer, is the second outing
