Everything to Remember About 'Annika' Ahead of Season 2

When Nicola Walker's lead character, DCI Cassie Stuart, was killed off in Season 4 of Unforgotten, it shocked fans in the U.K. and the U.S. alike. But thankfully, Walker wasn't done being a detective inspector and had already lined up a new fictional precinct to solve crimes on TV for British audiences and on PBS' Masterpiece. The series she would launch in the starring role was Annika, where she played detective Annika Strandhed. The show was adapted from the BBC radio mystery series Annika Stranded, where she already starred as the same titular character, solving crimes in Oslo.

For the TV series version, Walker's character moved from Olso to Glasgow, not just for the series, but literally transferring from working in Olso to Glasgow, with her teenage daughter Morgan (Silvie Furneaux), taking over the Marine Homicide Unit, solving mysteries on water. (It's at least a little easier than walking on it anyway.) Working with a team of local Scottish police, some of whom she knew from growing up in the area before she moved to Olso with her parents around the time she gave birth to Morgan, Annika is a woman who's a bit of a mess, but a damn good cop.

The series was an immediate hit in the U.K. when it debuted and landed an early PBS Passport release for members ahead of its October 2022 debut on most PBS stations. The show was renewed for Season 2 before it debuted in America, and now returns with six new cases of the week for Annika to solve while trying to juggle her love life, balance her family, tackle her workload, and handle her co-workers, all while randomly comparing it all to the great works of literature bouncing around in her head.