
Dalgliesh
Taste attributes: crimedramamysterydetectiveunsavouryheavyrealisticintricatelinearenclosedcomplex relationshipfighting evilsolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeIntricate and heavy: a small-scale crime series. Best if you like puzzles over plain sailing.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: very intricate · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Where to watch
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Seasons
Season 1
· 2021 · 6 episodesEpisodes (6)
1Shroud for a Nightingale (1)1 Nov 2021
January 1975. Student nurse Heather Pearce dies during a training demonstration. Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate, accompanied by his partner DS Masterson. Pathologist Dr. Chopra confirms that Pearce was poisoned. Dalgliesh and Masterson take statements from the nurses, despite Matron’s…
2Shroud for a Nightingale (2)1 Nov 2021
After Fallon’s death, Dalgliesh finds a library book in Fallon’s room and a letter in Pearce’s pigeonhole about a patient of Courtney-Briggs’ called Martin Dettinger, whose recent death on the hospital ward upset her. He later discovers rose spray, which Chopra confirms was used to poison Fallon. In the woods…
3The Black Tower (1)8 Nov 2021
March 1975. Dalgliesh is invited to Dorset by his old friend Father Michael, only to discover that he died a few days ago. Father Michael lived in a home for the disabled run by the enigmatic Wilfred, who has organised trips to Lourdes ever since he was miraculously cured there of a serious illness.
4The Black Tower (2)8 Nov 2021
Wilfred announces that he will transfer the Grange to the Ridgewell Trust and hold a vote on whether he will carry on as spiritual adviser. Maggie threatens to down the ‘whole rotten place’. Despite Eric and Helen’s plot to usurp Wilfred, the majority of the Grange vote for Wilfred to stay, ensuring the Lourdes trips…
5A Taste for Death (1)15 Nov 2021
May 1975. 8-year-old Darren and churchwarden Miss Wharton find two dead bodies in the vestry of St Matthew’s Church, Paddington, their throats slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Tory MP; the other a homeless man called Harry Mack. Dalgliesh is called in to investigate, accompanied by DS…
6A Taste for Death (2)15 Nov 2021
After the attack on Father Barnes while Halliwell was in custody, Dalgliesh brings Swayne and Lampart in for questioning. He discovers Lampart is having an affair with Lady Barbara, who reveals she is pregnant and thinks she will inherit everything. However, Lady Lavinia reveals that Sir Paul secretly changed his will…
Season 2
· 2023 · 6 episodesEpisodes (6)
1Death of an Expert Witness, Part 124 Apr 2023
When a senior forensic biologist is found dead in his lab, Dalgliesh is called to East Anglia, where the murderer is lying in wait to strike again.
2Death of an Expert Witness, Part 224 Apr 2023
After another body is discovered, Dalgliesh and Miskin untangle a web of infidelities in this rural community, unearthing a killer with secrets to hide and tracks to cover.
3A Certain Justice, Part 11 May 2023
Dalgliesh, Kate Miskin, and new D.S. Daniel Tarrant investigate the murder of an abrasive female defence barrister who successfully defended a shady young man on murder charges, only for him to begin dating her daughter.
4A Certain Justice, Part 21 May 2023
As Dalgliesh's team sort out the complicated motives surrounding the victim's murder, they are running out of time to save her daughter from her dangerous fiancee.
5The Murder Room, Part 18 May 2023
Marcus and Caroline Dupayne struggle to convince their brother, Neville, to renew the lease on their family's museum. When Neville's car is torched on the museum grounds and he perishes inside, all who work there are suspects - including his siblings.
6The Murder Room, Part 28 May 2023
The grisly discovery in the trunk provides a new line of inquiry that leads to a hidden room, ties to intelligence agents, and a scandalous society at the heart of the museum. The team race to crack the case as the killer prepares to strike again.
Specials
· 2023 · 3 episodesEpisodes (3)
- 1The Making of Dalgliesh
- 2Who is Dalgliesh?
- 3The Making of Dalgliesh Series 21 May 2023
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What lines up
- Intricacy: Smart / intricate, just how this profile likes it
- Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it
- Linearity: Linear / logical, just how this profile likes it
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Synopsis
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
Synopsis: TMDB
Taste Attributes
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Details
- Genre
- Crime
- Year
- 2021
- Episode length
- 45 min
- Status
- Returning
- Studio
- New Pictures
- Taste scores
- How we score
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