Pearl from the banks of Kent In my experience, British TV series about private detectives are always abundantly seasoned with humor, so watching them is a pleasure. But here a little gloomy cover does not lie - humor will be, but more drama, however, without inflection in this direction.
Pearl is the daughter of an extravagant lady and a single mother of a teenage mulatto. Motherhood forced her to resign from the police, so she now owns a cafe and is a private investigator. The new depressive inspector who encountered her on the first day, because Pearl found the corpse of a family friend, and could not imagine what this meeting would lead to.
The confrontation between police and private investigators is a classic. Everything here is very volatile - from total resistance to cooperation and back again (remember Agatha Reisin). There is a romantic line, and in several vectors, but the main one still remains hidden, does not find an outlet to the surface (as in Inspector Linley) - I have the feeling that this is a purely commercial move.
Like in The Clinic, where a couple of J.D. and Elliot were shuffled to the bone until they were brought back together at the very end, not because it made sense, but because it provided an excuse to release new seasons. That’s how everything here is screaming about the same approach.
Interesting cases, Pearl, of course, investigates them faster and smarter than all the police in her town. But this is not hyperbole or the desire to emphasize the unprecedented ingenuity of the heroine, just another + angle approach, free from paper and procedural frameworks. Pearl really knows how to find good in everyone and accept a person with all his baggage, regret and sympathize, even when the act itself is unacceptable. And that makes her a beacon and a guiding star for so many, including Mike.
If you want recklessness and humor, I advise "Harry Wilde" (here Jane Seymour with the same guy that here is a mulatto son, fervently provide the headache of a policeman son) or "Shakespeare and Hattway" (although by the last seasons they began to frankly break away in the process of filming, moving from a serious tone, as far as it is possible, to deliberately parody). But Pearl is better to choose when you want calm dynamics, thoughtfulness and cold serenity of the sea washing the shores of Kent.