![]() ![]() ![]() Isaacs is charming the typically fine British supporting cast benefits from Marc Jobst’s low-key direction (particularly Natasha Little and Fenella Woolgar as troubled sisters) and an astoundingly self-possessed child actress named Millie Innes lights up every scene she’s in as Brodie’s daughter. The show scores high on atmosphere and rhythm Mr. It all goes down pretty easily in the premiere (which combines the first two episodes of the British series). The plaintive tunes help establish his character: wounded, gruff, thoughtful, an easy touch for a lost cause, a hard-boiled hero with a soft center.īut we also hear a lot of trite background music, alternately bouncy and ominous, the kind familiar to fans of “Monk” or “Murder, She Wrote.” This dissonance is indicative of the show’s desire to be two things at once: a tense, moody-broody procedural and a lightly comic, character-driven cozy mystery. Jackson Brodie, the private eye played by Jason Isaacs (“Brotherhood”), listens to American folk and alt-country while he dwells on past mistakes and drives through the stark Scottish countryside. Music is a clue to the double nature of the series, a new addition to the “Masterpiece Mystery!” lineup, beginning on Sunday night on PBS. An early sign that “ Case Histories” isn’t going to be a typical British mystery: the voice of Nanci Griffith singing the lovely John Prine song “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness.” Strumming guitars and Texas twangs are not the usual soundtrack for tea-fueled detection and beatings on dark Edinburgh streets. ![]()
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