Such an interesting criminal investigation drama has only been filmed for two episodes.

If you are also troubled by the shorter and shorter episodes of Detective Moss each season, the new drama McDonald and Dodds produced by ITV may be a good way to dispel your panic in the British criminal investigation drama, although there are only two episodes in its first season.

"Detective Partner" poster

The interesting thing about Detective Partner lies in its protagonist setting first. After we thought we had met men and women, bent and straight, and other detective duo, the rare collocation of "father and daughter" in this play still gave people a bright feeling.

Lauren McDonald, one of the protagonists, is a female inspector who has just arrived in Bath from the capital London. Black, young and proficient in all kinds of latest crime-solving technologies, she has higher ambitions for her career. She believes that coming to Bath only adds a little diversity to her resume so that she can be promoted more quickly. In private life, McDonald has a touching but loyal boyfriend who only exists in his mobile phone and thinks that "there are actually two suns in this world".

In contrast, the police officer Dodds with her seems to come from a different world. He has never left this small town since he was born, and his pace of doing things is always slower than others. After his wife died many years ago, he has been living alone in the small house left by his aunt. In the workplace, bosses urged him to take the initiative to retire from ten years ago to make room. Now he has been assigned to the aggressive new inspector who has not been to the scene for ten years, also to put pressure on him. However, Dodds did not give up because of this. His old school, slowness, local knowledge and McDonald’s trendy, hot and foreign techniques unexpectedly completed an excellent match. The friction and mutual spitting between two diametrically opposed generations and two values have added countless laughter to this dramatic increase in addition to the tense plot.

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Like the design of people, the plot of Detective Partners is quite meaningful in finding a new method in tradition. In the first season, the two episodes, which lasted about one and a half hours, were entitled "The Collapse of Crockett House" and "The Lost Mirror Waste Land". The former is about a murder case surrounding a large local family. Crockett, a rich man, and his new wife found a strange body lying in the mansion when they came back from vacation, while the priceless Roman stone statue in the house was missing. The key to solving the case lies in the dirty little secrets of his three daughters who covet his property and their own families.

The second story happened in a nursing home for the treatment of mental illness. A patient suffering from alcoholism was discharged overnight despite everyone’s advice, but was found dead in his ward the next day. The biggest suspects are the leaders and members of her treatment team. And the death message she left before her death became the biggest clue of the case.

Family feud and Blizzard Villa mode are the most common themes in British detective novels. But in the play, in fact, at the beginning of each episode, there are some hints about who the real murderer is. The specific techniques they used and their wits and wits with the crime-solving duo are the focus of the story. Compared with the traditional narrative, which puts the secret of the real murderer at the end and climax of the story, the tune-changing mind of Detective Partner has also become a highlight of this play.

Bath skyline

Finally, I have to mention Bath, a world heritage town, as the story stage and the main shooting place. Unlike the postmodern black city London in Sherlock or the medieval Gothic Oxford in Detective Moss, Bath in Detective Partner looks generally beautiful. The Roman baths and Regency architecture, which are full of geometric symmetry, can be seen everywhere in the city, which also gives the play a wonderful vitality. The cases in this environment are also different from the coldness in other dramas, but they have a primitive sense of barbarism. The most natural desire of human beings for family, wealth, emotion and so on has also become the decisive motivation behind every incident.

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After the broadcast of this drama, the biggest complaint of the audience is why such an interesting drama only has two short episodes. Although almost all English dramas have stopped shooting because of the epidemic. However, we can reasonably expect that after the order is restored, Detective Partners will return to the audience with more high-quality stories.