The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

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Overview

Drama series about upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley and working class DS Barbara Havers, based on the novels of Elizabeth George.

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Country: UK
Genre: Crime, Drama
Network: BBC One
Watched by: 644 1 008 335
Total running time: 1 day 12 hours
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Episodes: 22
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02 Dec 2018, 13:31 #
An interesting duo: the well-educated, well-born and wealthy aristocrat DI Thomas Lynley and the commoner Sergeant Barbara Havers from a poor working-class family, conduct complex investigations of complicated cases in the midlands of England.

The main character's feature is his noble origin, which determines a significant part of the relationships in the series, and above all, with other police officers. On the one hand, commanders generally do not like independent and principled people, on the other, they consider the detective to be an upstart white hand, besides, they doubt his priority in following the unwritten laws of corporate solidarity, and in general they do not miss a pleasant opportunity to "build" a graph. His colleagues can't consider him completely their own either. For those who have a difficult police service, which is primarily a paid job and a pension, it is not easy to understand why a well-off and educated person is dragging a strap next to them.

Naturally, difficulties arise in the relationship with his partner, a capable sergeant from the people. However, they create an excellent dedicated team, complementing, teasing, covering for and helping each other out, overcoming office and everyday problems, ambiguous relationships between colleagues and superiors, successfully unravel crimes and solve dramatic murders.

The footage is acceptable, the stories are interesting, the characters are lively. Perhaps there are a little too many NON-detective events and all kinds of relationships, family, office and domestic. A good-quality average man, it was a pity that it was over.

Language. The main character speaks very well, as he should, the heroine speaks worse, but quite clearly, however, there are characters with strong regional accents. Subtitles won't hurt.
17 Aug 2018, 00:16 #
It is a pity that it is not brought to any end, an interesting series. I love English true detectives, it differs from the sleek American ones. It feels like there would be a theme of the relationship between Barbara and Thomas next. It's a pity, but it's good that Helen was merged, with a new actress she could not perceive their story as a continuation in any way....
17 Aug 2018, 10:05 #
I didn't like the episode-I don't like any political-espionage stuff. But the ending is so completely correct that it even starts to seem to me that this is the best episode of the season.
25 Oct 2021, 16:03 #
Helen is already starting to cheer up. Profiler. Yeah. She's so insecure, constantly apologizing, doubting, not looking into her eyes. Poor Lynley.
28 Jun 2024, 17:03 #
It's so stupid that I didn't have the words.
The character himself is bad, and the plot is idiotic. Why and for what reason did they so stupidly allow even a non-police psychologist to expose himself in such a situation? Logically, all the cops who were in the last scene should be fired to hell. To allow a civilian to shield himself from a weapon. Breeed.
I'm terribly sorry for Lynley, but I'm not sorry for Helen at all.
She infuriated the entire series with her stupidity, uselessness, and cruelty to Lynley. And both the actresses who played her didn't save the situation.