Let's face it, we find a whodunnit hard to resist. We're super intrigued about The Jetty, a four-part BBC detective TV series that asks questions about consent, grooming, sexual morality and other nuanced issues when it comes to a post #MeToo landscape.
It may appear a classic police drama at first, but as the layers are peeled back we see our protagonist and detective Ember (played by Jenna Coleman) confront some serious demons from her past as she solves the case of a local fire, causing her to rethink how she remembers certain events.
Add it to your watchlist now – here's what you need to know about The Jetty.
The Jetty plot
A synopsis from the BBC reads as follows: "When a fire tears through a property in a scenic Lancashire lake town, Detective Ember Manning (Jenna Coleman) must work out how it connects to a podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit ‘love’ triangle between a man in his twenties and two underage girls.
“But as Ember gets close to the truth, it threatens to destroy her life – forcing her to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew about her past, present and the town she’s always called home.”
But what's most interesting about The Jetty is it's much more than your BBC average police drama – it looks at important nuances that we should be talking about post #MeToo.
"As much a coming-of-age story as a detective thriller, The Jetty asks big questions about sexual morality, identity and memory, in the places that Me Too has left behind," the synopsis reads.
The Jetty cast
Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who, The Serpent) will star as Ember, alongside Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon, Dunkirk), Ruby Stokes, Archie Renaux, Laura Marcus, Bo Bragason, Weruche Opia (I May Destroy You), Matthew NcNulty, Ralph Ineson, David Ajala, Nina Barker-Francis, Miya Ocego (I Hate Suzie), Elliot Cowan, Shannon Watson, Arthur Hughes, Dominic Coleman, Ruaridh Mollica and Amelia Bullmore (Happy Valley).
The Jetty release date
It will launch on 15 July on both BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
The Jetty trailer
Watch below, see if you can connect the many, many dots in this mystery.
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