cumbercamel:My life atm, obsessedI can’t understand why there’s not more love for this show on Tumbl
cumbercamel:My life atm, obsessedI can’t understand why there’s not more love for this show on Tumblr. Allow me to evangelize for it. I present:DCI Vera Stanhope, main protagonist: a middle-aged womanprofessionally competent and respectedno nonsense, also calls everyone “pet” runs a virtually all-male team (!)prickly compassionate perceptiveThis is just so refreshing! I love that the vaguely misanthropic, no-respecter-of-persons inspector gets to be a woman! And she’s never punished by the show writers for not particularly liking kids or anything! And her clothes always look as they’ve been picked up at Oxfam, or ought to be donated to Oxfam, and it’s just never mentioned by the main characters! because it doesn’t matter! I’m so pleased!DS Joe Ashworth, faithful sidekick:very religiousa good team playerhas a realistic married relationship (!)calls Vera out on stufflooks up to Vera professionally <3adores kidstotal softieI’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve turned to my sister in order to say “Joe is a precious human.” He’s so empathetic it hurts to look at him sometimes, and unrelentingly generous. He’s allowed to be flawed: he can be defensive, and he occasionally loses his temper. But he’s also a solidly good person. Who’s comfortable being vulnerable with his female boss. I love them both. -- source link
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