Marcella's back!

Anna Friel returns as the troubled cop

- Anna Friel

From Olivia Colman in Broadchurch to Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley, there’s been no shortage of memorable female investigators on our screens in recent years, yet the darkest performance of all must be Anna Friel’s as DS Marcella Backland.

The first series of the crime thriller saw the London detective on the trail of a serial killer, while questioning her own sanity following a string of violent memory blackouts – or ‘fugues’. Now Marcella is back with a new case that promises to be even more chilling.

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