“Trigger warning” and “Adrian Dunbar” aren’t words that typically go together, but that’s what we’re dealing with in the star’s sleepy police procedural, Ridley. Halfway through the first episode of the new season, the action cuts alarmingly to a jazz club where Dunbar’s consulting detective Alex Ridley is on stage crooning his heart out, like an AliExpress Frank Sinatra.
Every episode is cosy crime meets cosy crooning, as our low-key protagonist ends up at Marling’s jazz club, belting out a song. He’s a decent singer, so it isn’t as if he is murdering the tune. And, in fairness, it’s a daring departure from the small-screen detective formula. (Imagine if Inspector Morse was a happy house DJ in his spare time.) But Ridley’s commitment to thinking outside the box ends there. Sadly, it otherwise goes through the motions like a bored beat cop waiting for his shift to end.
In ‘Ridley’ season two, Ridley disentangles the mystery of a jewellery heist gone wrong (Photo: Matt Squire/ITV)Honestly, it’s grim stuff. Ridley’s backstory is that his wife and daughter have been murdered off-screen by a serial killer and that he’s dealing with the pain by taking a gig economy job as a consultant to the police. It makes a difference from the usual hard-drinking detectives with messy marriages, but it does require Dunbar to potter around joylessly – which seems to be missing the point of having him on screen.
He was the bottom-of-the-credits actor who always made you pay attention. He went one better with Line of Duty, where Ted Hastings became perhaps the most beloved of the characters, without Dunbar ever hogging the screen or trying to overshadow the rest of the cast. He’s just great to watch.
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Normally, Dunbar’s charm would have compensated for a silly, over-stuffed storyline – look at the wonders he worked on Line of Duty. Yet, even by the pulpy standards of an ITV whodunit, Ridley is an unconvincing creation. There is, in particular, a constant tension between the show’s insistence that he is a sympathetic grieving dad seeking closure and his flagrant willingness to put protégé Tasha (Chloe Harris) in harm’s way to solve the case.
‘Ridley’ season two continues next Sunday at 8pm on ITV1
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