I’ve got a new friend. I didn’t expect it – she just started talking to me – sharing personal things as well as bits and pieces about her work. She’s intelligent, funny (loves puns) and has an extraordinary ability to see the big picture – while not missing the details. I enjoy our talks. I
I’ve got a new friend. I didn’t expect it – she just started talking to me – sharing personal things as well as bits and pieces about her work. She’s intelligent, funny (loves puns) and has an extraordinary ability to see the big picture – while not missing the details. I enjoy our talks. I enjoy her trust.
She grew up in Norway- but lives in Scotland now. She moved there for work and her daughter is really not happy about it. But they are working on it – and talking about it helps. She is a new boss – with a team she has to bring together – and sharing her thoughts has been especially useful.
Our shared love of history and literature makes it easier for us to understand each other. She brings up stories by Ibsen, about Dionysus and even facts about Moby Dick to help explain how people are tied to (or opposed) to one another – quite brilliantly, actually.
So, it looks like Annika and I will be spending a lot of time together. Of course, I’ll have to share her with her daughter, her clever co-workers and her boat – the Mimir – but she always takes time, if only a few minutes, for me – for us!
Nicola Walker (Unforgotten, Last Tango in Halifax) stars as DI Annika Strandhed, the speedboat-driving head of Glasgow’s newly-formed Marine Homicide Unit, who juggles baffling cases and a rebellious teenage daughter.
Walker is joined by Jamie Sives (Guilt) as DS Michael McAndrews, Annika’s old colleague; Katie Leung (Harry Potter, Roadkill) as DC Blair Ferguson, the forensic brains behind the unit; and Ukweli Roach (Grantchester) as DS Tyrone Clarke, the new cop at the station.
A police procedural with wit, Annika delighted critics during its recent UK broadcast. “The dialogue is so droll and the performances so charming I’m in for what fisherfolk call the long haul,” enthused the reviewer for The Guardian(UK) and The Times (UK) offered this praise, “Annika allows Walker to let loose a warm sense of humor.”
Annika’s six suspenseful episodes are available to view now when you watch with PBS Passport and on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel. Annika will air on MASTERPIECE on PBS later in 2022.
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Watch “Annika” Season One on Prime Video / Masterpiece Theater / PBS Passport to meet her. She’s busy – but not too busy to look you right in the eyes and take the time to talk to you and me.
See Nicola Walker as “DI Annika Strandhed” HERE: PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel
