Hello hivers, this is the first review I wrote using scrobble and, sure, I'll write other reviews here from time to time! At first, you have to know I love so much to watch the crime drama tv series, especially the british ones. Maybe because one of my favorite writers since I was a girl is Agatha Christie (I'm a big fan of her novels) and I read a lot of crime books too, but at the end I think I like the mistery and the enigma inside every good crime fiction.
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Today I decided to talk to you about "Vera", a British crime drama tv series based on the novels by Ann Cleeves. The main characters is the detective Vera Stanhope played by Brenda Blethyn, an excellent actress with a long long career. The series was broadcasted for the first time in the 2011 and there are 14 seasons (around 4-6 episodes for each season). The last episode was a special one in January 2025. In my opinion, the strength of this tv series is in the character of Vera Stanhope. She is a middle aged woman, a nearly retired DCI of the Northumberland Police, she has no family, she is very irascible (even if she has a good heart at the end) and very obsessive about her work . She doesn't take care about her look and plods along in a dishevelled state, ofeten wearing an old raincoat (this thing makes me think about the Lieutenant Columbo played by Peter Falk), but she is a very smart woman and thanks her skills every case is solved.
Every episode is about one crime case and this is good for me, because I don't love so much to wait more episode to know who is the guilty. Another thing I like about this tv series is that there are no romance, no sex, just a simple (but not simple) mistery to solve.
A curiosity: I watched it in the italian version and in our version Vera often tell "caro" (the italian word for "dear") when she talk with someone. Here it's common for an old woman (like me :D ) to start a conversation with that word "Caro", especially if you have to say something sad or bad. 😃
Rating: 100/100
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