Have started watching Series 9 of Shetland. Is it getting soapy?

I like the two women and think they work well together. I never noticed lipstick! The current story is intriguing. I must say that the setting really makes me not want to visit Shetland. I find the landscapes so depressing.

I was late coming to the Shetland series but thoroughly enjoyed the early ones with Jimmy Perez when I finally watched them. For some reason the only later episode I started to watch did not grip me and now I am not bothering with them. Maybe some time in the future I will give them another go.

I watch mainly to enjoy the landscape and to see if I can recognise the locations, even though I've only been there once.

I think it's verging on parody. The music altering if something bad is about to happen. Billy should have been left behind in the station.
Where on earth is Tosh's child?
Why does Ruth wear her trews half mast and where did Tosh source that nice jumper?

It is a nice jumper

Ruth’s trousers are very fashionable.
Didn’t Tosh’s partner reappear last week? Perhaps the child ( was a baby when it disappeared) will turn up soon.

I think it’s a bit Janet and John

But not in the Terry Wogan sense alas!

Tosh’s nice jumper, if we are thinking of the same one, was this from Seasalt the colour is called Spruce Frost (with Cyclamen).

I'm so enjoying these replies, thank you all so much! Thought the jumper might be from from Seasalt.

ps Back to the series: How many Senior Officers behind the desk have they had in Shetland? Enormous turnover if I'm right.

Thanks for the tip re jumper.

StripeyGran

I think it's verging on parody. The music altering if something bad is about to happen. Billy should have been left behind in the station.
Where on earth is Tosh's child?
Why does Ruth wear her trews half mast and where did Tosh source that nice jumper?

I liked Billy in his place at the station.
I'd like to see more of Sandy (the only authentic accent, I think)
Tosh's child spends a lot of time asleep
Too short trousers have 'divorced your ankles and married your knees', according to DH
Must check up on the jumper.

Betony

I'm so enjoying these replies, thank you all so much! Thought the jumper might be from from Seasalt.

ps Back to the series: How many Senior Officers behind the desk have they had in Shetland? Enormous turnover if I'm right.

Where are all these other police officers hiding in the station? We never see them there.

I liked it with Perez,and his daughter's other dad, and has Billy retired or off sick..

Allira

StripeyGran

I think it's verging on parody. The music altering if something bad is about to happen. Billy should have been left behind in the station.
Where on earth is Tosh's child?
Why does Ruth wear her trews half mast and where did Tosh source that nice jumper?

I liked Billy in his place at the station.
I'd like to see more of Sandy (the only authentic accent, I think)
Tosh's child spends a lot of time asleep
Too short trousers have 'divorced your ankles and married your knees', according to DH
Must check up on the jumper.

Just checked on the jumper, 37% recycled nylon! Add in the elastane and it's a no from me. £80 for a 40% manmade fibre jumper..... I'd rather pay another £20 and have a completely natural fibre jumper.

Tosh always looks to be sneering to me.

Her top lip turns up at one corner whenever she speaks.

Definitely not Janet and John in the Terry Wogan sense, I still listen to these occasionally and they still make me giggle.

Me too. He'd not get away with it these days.

I agree with you Calender Girl, Tosh has a look that seems sneering and her face to me seems as if permanently puzzled.
I watch it but it’s not a patch as when Perez was in it.

Yes, it's just not the same, but I'm still watching.

Definitely soapy.
Everyone in the small community seems to have form of some sort or other, and the husband who insists on accompanying his wife to protect her and her nefarious dealings happily leaves their seven/ eight year old child alone, 'because she never wakes up.' Really??

I cant believe Tosh would wear a Seasalt jumper when Shetland is awash with shops selling gorgeous handknits.

I was losing interest in Shetland after the departure of Dougie Henshall but this new story hooked me like a fish !! What a story !
I quite like the 2 girls together now .

vegansrock

I cant believe Tosh would wear a Seasalt jumper when Shetland is awash with shops selling gorgeous handknits.

Well, I thought the same!

She needs to go on Game of Wool 😁