Episode #7.5

The cast are, as always, wonderful, but the "Texas" accent of one of the characters is so bad that I almost can't stand to listen to it. It's a combination of old Virginia, old Atlanta, and London-what it is not, is remotely Texan. I'm not as drawn in by the eco-terrorism plot as I am with previous series of Shetland. It's a bit convoluted, and as the series draws to a close I'm wondering whether all of the plot holes and dangling threads will be resolved or if we'll be left hanging. The islands themselves remain my favorite character-absolutely gorgeous. I'm hoping that Tosh will be given a chance to grow and sine in series 8.

So we finally reach the very end of this rambling series, with as many scattered corpses as Midsomer, only to realise that the plot had more holes than a sieve. Everything appears to be predicated upon a whole swathe of utterly random and grossly unlikely coincidences, and improbabilities easily morphing into impossibilities. I think I need to list them one by one under 'goofs', but only if I can be bothered.

We have very much enjoyed 'Shetland' in the past, but this, which looks like it will be the final series, just went too far in the "suspend disbelief" stakes.

6/10, and that's for the whole series.