Jenna Coleman to Lead Upcoming BBC Detective Drama 'The Jetty'
Jenna Coleman's next role is something of a British acting rite of passage: Starring in a detective drama. Granted, the upcoming four-part series, called The Jetty, seems anything but traditional.
In it, Coleman plays rookie detective Ember Manning, called in to investigate when a fire demolishes a holiday home in a scenic lake town in Lancashire. Manning must work out how this dark event connects to a podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit ‘love’ triangle between a man in his twenties and two underage girls.
But as Ember gets close to the truth, it threatens to destroy her life --- and forces her to question everything she thought she knew about her past, present, and the town she's always claimed as her own. Described as one part coming-of-age story and one part detective thriller, The Jetty aims to wrestle with big questions about identity, memory, and sexual morality, in the all too easily abandoned places that the #MeToo movement has left behind.
