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Sunday, July 9, 2023

#SmallScreenScenes #ScotlandPeachy #KarenPirie on #BritBox Recommended by #PeachyDeegan @ManhattanPeachy @BritBox_US #BBC #America

An absolutely beautiful setting for a show is St. Andrews, Scotland and it is surprising that it's not used more often. A brand new smash hit from Britbox, Karen Pirie, takes place there and young Karen precociously takes on a case that has been resurfaced from the past and applies her genius. The acting, the editing and the producing is better than the script, which could be tighter and more unique.

A word of advice to Karen: do not hook up with men you work with! Nine out of ten murders are committed by men...and it seems few have been investigated by women. Female cops are not just optics-just ask Mariska.

Trauma can have a ripple effect...Karen's honest, fresh, earnest and determined nature are truly a celebration of youth and talent combined and she makes an excellent role model for young girls. Not only is this a hit, but also it shows women genuinely helping other women which sadly can be quite rare in the professional world.

May we suggest a Season 2? We look forward to more from these emerging talents.

Karen Pirie is Recommended by Whom You Know






Adapted by Emer Kenny from the celebrated crime writer's best-selling series of novels, the drama centers on DS Karen Pirie, a truly contemporary and brilliant young Scottish detective with a quick mouth and tenacious desire for the truth. In this opening story, based on the first Karen Pirie novel A Distant Echo, newly promoted Karen is tasked with reopening a murder investigation that has been the subject of a controversial true crime podcast. When teenage barmaid Rosie Duff was found brutally murdered in a St. Andrew's graveyard in 1996, suspicion fell on the three students who discovered her body. But with a lack of forensic evidence, no charges were brought and the investigation floundered. Twenty-five years on, someone is willing to risk everything to keep the secrets surrounding the case hidden. DO the three men know more than they previously revealed? How flawed was the original investigation? And can Karen uncover the truth of what happened to Rosie that fateful night?

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