{"id":250055,"date":"2024-08-01T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/the-jetty-review-the-heir-to-happy-valley\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:26","slug":"the-jetty-review-the-heir-to-happy-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/the-jetty-review-the-heir-to-happy-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jetty – Review: The Heir to Happy Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Jetty<\/i> is a brand new crime drama from Cat Jones, directed by Marialy Rivas \u2013 it spans four parts and keeps its structure tight and doesn\u2019t overstay its welcome. With echoes of Happy Valley<\/i> it casts Jenna Coleman in the lead role as a Detective who has a dark past; pulling secrets from out of a scenic Lancashire town with a missing persons case being dragged to light. It\u2019s very British crime drama TV with a lot of tropes but the dual narrative drama makes it an interesting character building play \u2013 with Connie Jenkins-Greig stepping into play young Ember Manning, opposite Bo Bragason as Amy Knightley \u2013 the script doesn\u2019t immediately make it clear that the younger characters are the same as the ones in the present until the end of the first episode, but when it clicks it really clicks \u2013 and you get an unfolding Top of the Lake<\/i> style narrative that really pulls you in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Jenna Coleman and Ruby Stokes in THE JETTY\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\n\u201cI chase the darkness for a living\u201d narrates the podcaster \u2013 because of course there\u2019s a podcaster, it\u2019s a growing trend in TV lately \u2013 see Netflix\u2019s Bodkin<\/i> \u2013 but in steps Riz Samuel, capitalising on the wave of true crime. There\u2019s a lot of Eliza Clark\u2019s Penance<\/i> here in the capture of a sexist small town and its treatment of a murder, with the local \u201cboy\u2019s own\u201d pub creating a sense of an old guard that gets its way and is creepy, sleazy and just enough that anyone who\u2019s different isn\u2019t really welcome. It\u2019s a BBC start from the off but don\u2019t let that fall you \u2013 The Jetty<\/i> explores what it\u2019s like to be a woman in a dark, dark world when faced with the male patriarchy at every turn. DC Manning \u2013 and it\u2019s a very deliberate choice to introduce her as DC Manning navigates this world with a chip on her shoulder and rightly so; as we explore more of her past we explore dialogue that\u2019s so on point it\u2019s designed to make you feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. <\/p>\n

Its politics are on its sleeve, open and heartfelt. DC Manning\u2019s relationship with her daughter is one of the most interesting points of the show, \u201cI\u2019m a riddle, wrapped in an enigma,\u201d is clich\u00e9, BBC detective speak \u2013 but \u201cwrapped in inexpensive office wear\u201d counters it with aplom. Her past is brought back to the forefront in an ugly way \u2013 and this is very interesting to see Coleman make the step up from Doctor Who<\/i>\u2019s Clara Oswald; where she brought an aura of control that rivalled Capaldi; and gave us the best acting from a companion in the revival series. The feminist biting heart of the series is passionate and compulsive \u201cI don\u2019t believe that every man is capable of hurting a woman\u2026 but we are living in an incubator for the ones that are,\u201d Manning says. She\u2019s not quite a tired Detective, this isn\u2019t quite Mare of Easttown levels, but there are that vibes in the small town community \u2013 and the moments where she\u2019s allowed to have fun amist the grieving process of a largely open and shut-case make it clear that this show is very much allowing the dogma of \u201cwhen\u201d it\u2019s set to define its music tastes \u2013 we get a needle drop of The Killers which of course someone who came of age in the 90s\/2000s would be obsessed with \u2013 and the tense, nosedive into the culture of a goth in a small town in a pre-internet era is explored ferociously with all the pitfalls that come with it. Such a fascinating split of characters and timelines it\u2019s refreshing how closed-off The Jetty<\/i> is.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Connie Jenkins-Greig and Bro Bragason in THE JETTY\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The show\u2019s cinematography is terrific. It really brings the beauty out in the rugged, rural landscape of Lancashire and looks like a perfectly appealing tourist destination; were it not for the characters that Manning encounters in this town. One of them is Tom Glynn-Carey\u2019s older-man involved in a relationship with a younger-girl, and the show tackles the consequences of the age-gap head on with a need for striking up conversations where possible. The Jetty<\/i> proudly has something to say and Glynn-Carey plays this role with a traditional love-to-hate character attitude that gets under your skin instantly.\n<\/p>\n

At only four hours The Jetty<\/i> will pull you right in and keep you there. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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