It is a demonstration that goes wrong, and while the business of someone having to swallow a tube is somewhat whitewashed, the reaction of Pierce as she is poisoned is graphic and shocking. The trainees are observed by their supervisors, Matron Mary Taylor ( Natasha Little), Sister Gearing ( Fenella Woolgar), and Sister Brumfett ( Amanda Root), and by the arrogant bigwig surgeon Stephen Courtney-Briggs ( Richard Dillane). Except she wasn’t the first choice––that was Josephine Fallon ( Siobhán Cullen), who’s been in the adjacent hospital overnight (or maybe not). In the first episode, we scramble to untangle the relationships between the trainee nurses as they gather for a demonstration of assisted feeding, with one of their own, Heather Pierce ( Beccy Henderson), chosen to be the subject. There’s even a ghost, that of a sexually abused servant, and layers and layers of secrets - oh, and murder. Set in a private hospital and nursing training school, Nightingale House, the inhabitants practice the healing arts, with sidelines in spitefulness, bullying, lying, and illicit sex. In other words, this team knows what it’s doing.įilmed on location in Ireland and set in the 1970s, the series’ first two-part mystery, based on James’ Shroud for a Nightingale, has a suitably spooky and Gothic feel. The accomplished cast is led by Bertie Carvel ( Jonathan Strange & Mr. This new Dalgliesh series is rich, detailed, and demanding, an impeccable collaboration between lead writer Helen Edmundson ( An Inspector Calls), Stephen Greenhorn ( Doctor Who), and lead director Jill Robertson ( Trainspotting), who is joined by Andy and Ryan Tohill ( The Dig), and Lisa Clarke ( Sanditon). You don’t just see the everyday, the banal, the human beings running this little planet, thinking everything they do matters and has meaning. James - “Shroud for a Nightingale,” “The Black Tower,” and “A Taste for Death.” This latest adaptation tackles three of the novels by the late P. It’s the first remake since the acclaimed and long-lived ITV/ Masterpiece series aired from 1983 –1998 with Roy Marsden as Dalgliesh. Poet detective Adam Dalgliesh has returned in a new series called, obviously enough, Dalgliesh.
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