Television: Ian Rankin’s stoic Edinburgh copper is more character study than pulsating thriller but Edinburgh leaps off the screen
. In this our present age of technological miracles, there are unconfirmed reports of Irish viewers having widespread access to British channels. Extraordinary, I know – what next? Phones you can carry around in your pocket? The internet in your house. What a time to be a sentient human being.
The cliche about crime TV is that the setting is as much character as the heroes and villains. Edinburgh, in all its glory and its scuzziness, certainly leaps off the screen in this Rebus reboot, scripted by Gregory Burke . The city comes alive as a place of elegant beauty and misery and paranoia with a runaway gangland problem .
Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order – An impressive tribute to the bands’ miraculous, affecting artOne of those challenges is his brother, Michael , a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, struggling to adjust to civilian life and to his job delivering groceries. Rebus is also trying to keep a leash on his gangland informant, Brian Cafferty who rants about the prospect of a United Ireland flooding Scotland with loyalist drug dealers.
Elsewhere, he has the standard smoking crater of a personal life. His marriage has fallen apart, his ex has got together with a smarmy executive , and Rebus is conducting an affair with the wife of his former police mentor, now a broken man . That’s a lot to keep track of though helpfully the whole thing has already aired on the BBC, so Rebus fans will already have had an opportunity to get to grips with the reborn crime-stopper and his trail of emotional carnage.
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