I got the second and last season of this British tv crime comedy from the library. You don't even have to do that, I see they're all on YouTube. Acorn TV also has them but they want 5 bucks a month to watch all their videos. They have a lot of British tv to watch and that suscription might be worth it for a few months while a person goes through their offerings but so far most everything they have has been at the library or NetFlix. A lot of the tv I see is worth watching once and not much more. Even my favorite series I might have seen only 2 or 3 times.
Toby Stephens plays D.I. Jack Armstrong. He's a London Police Detective and Miranda Raison plays D.I. Georgina Dixon who's new to the department is is his partner. They don't get along so well when they first meet in the opening episode but they do seem to have some fun solving crimes. I had fun watching them and you might like them too. I thought Toby and Miranda had better on screen chemistry than Toby had with his previous partner, Lucy Punch. I took the descriptions of the shows from the Wikipedia. Saves some time, you know, rather than thinking up my own.
Episode 1 - DI Jack Armstrong and his new partner, bright fast-tracker DI Georgina Dixon come together at a car showroom where top salesman Karl Mercer is found dead in the boot of a car. The suspects are all employees of the car dealership from sales staff to mechanics and Georgina is exasperated by Jacks casual attitude and he is annoyed by her determination to solve their first case together.
Episode 2 - The mismatched detectives investigate the murder in a university library of student Laura Edwards who is studying gender studies. Jack goes undercover as a mature student to aid their investigation of the tutors and students and the complicated world of gender politics. In their private lives Georgina meets her perfect man and Jack obsesses over his girlfriend, Danielle, to the amusement of Georgina with his descriptions of their relationship.
Episode 3 - Demoted to "missing persons" for a week, after Jack had defaced the Chief Constable's poster, Jack and Georgina investigate missing solicitor Ted Finch. When his body turns up in the river the detectives have to determine if it is suicide, murder, or an accident by checking into his life at home, work, and the last place he was sighted, the gym. Georgina's father unexpectedly appears as a crime prevention consultant.
Episode 4 - When the front runner contestant, Alison Clarke, on a cookery show is murdered Georgina goes undercover to solve the murder from suspects numbering the other contestants and the hosts of the show Robert Randall and his assistant Sue Goretti. Georgina takes the contest seriously and Jack takes advantage of her cooking skills to enhance his love life.
Episode 5 - When the headmaster of a hugely popular local primary school is murdered by a knitting needle in the neck Jack and Georgine quickly arrest one of the last five mothers to see him that morning. Realising they may have made a mistake further investigation reveals the headmaster was taking bribes from the mothers wanting their children accepted by his school. The school secretary is poisoned and Jack mesmerised by one of the mothers does not realise he too has been poisoned. Georgina's father announces he is divorcing her mother.
Episode 6 - The unconventional detectives investigate a robbery from the safe, at a family-run jewellery store, of a diamond belonging to a famous footballer. The thieves knew the combination, an inside job, so all the family and staff are suspects. Jack is distracted by an invitation to be best man at his brother's wedding, an invitation with a sting in the tail from a brother he despises. Georgina has problems when she experiments with online dating and is overwhelmed by the response.
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