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There are many kinds of cases in police procedurals. There are serial murderers; there are one-off killings; there are cold cases; crooked cops commit crimes, you name 'em, there's a show about them. But of all the different kinds of detective stories, none are quite so emotionally
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Annika has always had daddy issues hovering in the background of the series since the series began, an odd choice considering it's a series centered around a female police detective and her daughter. But men aren't the only ones who have issues with their fathers, and
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We've reached the halfway point of Annika's second season, and the most prominent life crisis on the table, telling Michael he's Morgan's father without blowing everything to smithereens, has been accomplished. No one is suing anyone for custody, no one quit their
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Annika picks up not quite two weeks after last week's disastrous open-mic experience. Honestly, I'm not sure what Annika thinks she's doing. The obvious answer is opening a deck chair on the roof to enjoy an ice cream, but it's all gone
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This week's episode of Annika opens by Forth Bridge in Edinburgh. This week's body's being fished out of the drink just as this week's novel, Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott, is being fished out of Annika'
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Annika is not the type of series that stands on ceremony or sits around waiting on a lot of preamble. It's part of the benefit of a series where every week is a new case, and there's not much in the way of significant arcs throughout
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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
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Annika's final episode for Season 1 opens with Morgan's 16th birthday on the horizon and a case that has our titular detective pensive. The deceased is Viola McCaskill, washed up from the drink. But it's the next of kin that's the problem:
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Last week, Annika ended with both mother and daughter diving headfirst into relationships they're keeping on the down low from one another: Annika with Morgan's former therapist, Dr. Jake, and Morgan with Annika's coworker's sister Erin. This week continues the sneaking about
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In a change of pace, Annika begins not with a treatise on classic literature but on bridges. It might be a heavy-handed metaphor for this week's episode, but the point remains that Annika can only name three kinds of bridges out of six. (Beam, arch, and suspension; sorry
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Episode 2 of Annika ended with Morgan agreeing therapy wasn't the worst notion her mother's ever had. Episode 3 opens at the doctor's office, and instead of Annika talking about myths or novels, she's talking about psychotherapy and explaining how it works,
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Annika's second episode once again begins with Annika musing at us about literature. Episode 1 was Melville, with her reflecting on Moby Dick, inspired by the initial corpse, which died via a harpooning, but also mixed in with her own obsession with finding killers — her white whales — and