DanWilde1966
30-07-2008, 19:02
I've just looked at the recent two episodes of this new show on Sky +, and it seems to me that Martin Shaw has ever so slightly lost the plot. It's not as if he ever really gets into the role: he's Martin Shaw playing George Gently, and the accent he uses (which is neither London nor northern, but a curious indeterminate hybrid) is conspicuous in its incongruity. I am increasingly getting into the Midsomer Murders/Inspector Lynley/Inspector Morse-style genre (and two of the aforenamed feature actors who found fame playing earlier detectives, and who made a successful transition). Shaw doesn't seem to me to pull off the same trick here.