Season 2 of Alibi and Masterpiece's police procedural Annika improves on what worked in Season 1 while also going in new and interesting directions.
At some point, I lost track of all the police procedurals on television. From Law & Order to FBI, it seems like just about every possible branch of law enforcement has been covered to some extent, with varying degrees of success. There’s some that have been around as long as I can remember, but Alibi’s series Annika hits a kind of criminal investigation I’d never heard of before, following Nicola Walker as the detective inspector of a Marine Homicide Unit in Glasgow, Scotland.
'Annika' Brings a Unique Twist to the Police Procedural That usually isn’t the case, though, as this season’s mysteries wind around and in on themselves in new and more adept ways. By and large, everyone seems to have stepped up their game this time around, and season two wisely doubles down on what made the series work so well in its first outing: Annika’s fourth wall breaking, and her relationships with her fellow officers.
It’s very nearly its own sitcom at times, shifting from the grim tragedies of murder to Annika’s love life, straight to her making bad jokes no one gets before coming all the way back around, somehow keeping each piece relevant to one another — especially as Annika continues to mingle with her team, who seem to trust her infinitely more after rescuing her from an exploding car at the end of season one.
Then there’s Paul McGann, as Annika’s on-again, off-again love interest, Jake, who also happens to be her daughter’s former therapist. He’s much more on-again this season, and his chemistry with Walker is no surprise — at least, not to me, since I arrived at the series because I loved their work together in Big Finish’s long-running Doctor Who audio dramas.
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