Shetland 10 starts on 5 November 2025

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Forget about the fireworks, stay in as new series of Shetland starts next week!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lt9z

I think those of us who have stuck with Shetland through thick and thin, just about filled up the last thread which is here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4931718-shetland-season-8?page=40

Given how bad many 9pm slots have been recently this series may even be a pleasant surprise.

I hope the final episode is good for all those who haven’t been impressed so far. After my earlier predictions I’m now none the wiser.

Hey Ruth, why not confront a murderer alone… defenceless… and outline the whole scenario to him…

How on earth are these people working on TV when they are such bad actors, and when did it become quite SO obvious on TV programmes that people really aren’t driving along the road in their cars?🤔😆

Donny has taken the child out for the day in Tosh’s day off? On a Sunday? Hmmmmm.

OK, so what was all that that post coital Ruth outlined to Ed? About the Callahan’s and a test and the Burnetts?

All nicely wrapped up.

Lana remains my favourite ever character. (Outside Jimmy’s household.) And now I’m realising why she set the house on fire.

So Jess's pregnancy was little more than a plot device to provide some melodrama for the last ep? So when Ed eventually said that he stood there and saw Craig and Ally go out in the morning, was he standing side-by-side with Eadie, who saw the same thing?

Love Tosh's jumper in the closing scenes.

Could anyone please explain what happened to Stevie Shannon, Amy and Amy's family? Just finished watching the series and I have no idea, they just disappeared?

So many inaccuracies I was cringing (but perversely, still enjoyed the series).

I wondered this too at first. But then I think he said he watched them go out the night before? And that's when Ruth twigged. Because in the video Eadie describes watching them go out on the morning of the storm. Proving they went out twice

Who gave Louden the overdose? I must have dozed off when that was cleared up.

The scene where Sandy and Tosh were interviewing Ed Tulloch was so overacted.

Quite chilling the way Arthur described how Eadie knew she had to die and the bits they showed of that.
As someone commented, it was a touch risky Calder telling Ed everything they knew, in a house in the middle of nowhere…!

And it still wasn't clear who spiked Louden, could have been Lewis or Ed?

I hate the misogyny in BBC crime dramas. They can never let professional women behave professionally. In Silent Witness Emilia Fox had to have sex with every dodgy bloke in the series and now they have decided Ruth has to go the same way. Male senior characters become alcoholics and the women are nymphomaniacs. Why can’t we have a female lead who keeps her knickers on and is a bit more professional?

Very complicated episode, I'm still not sure why Arthur killed Eadie? I was drifting off to sleep by the end.

I agree.
Utterly daft.

We never did find out who injected Louden with heroin, did we ?
The story of the 2 sisters went nowhere.
What happens to Ruth now ?

Boat went out to sea in the evening before the storm. Ed saw them off. Boat returned next morning, presumably because of the storm. Only Eadie knew they were back. She told them to go back out to get the drugs. Why they went is unclear - youthful belief they were invulnerable, greed, fear of Robert? Ed seemed to believe that his brother was honest, but presumably he wasn't. In her final days Eadie forgot that she wasn't supposed to have seen them that morning and mentioned it in the interview. Arthur put two and two together - how?

Tosh in more than one sense!

He seemed to think it was a moral necessity. All rather odd and nasty.

And Tosh and Ruth finally clocked that Eadie was positioned looking out to sea towards where the boat sank, which some of you predicted right from the off. They were a bit slow there.

Usually in TV shows where there's a murder victim's body being staged like that, it's the first thing they do, study the orientation carefully etc. As I recall, there was brief mention of the knots, and "Anyone on Shetland could have tied that", and that was about it.

Arthur put two and two together because Jess downloaded and saw the video - and either Arthur alone or Jess, her mother and Arthur figured it out, the same way Ruth did.

And that's why Lana set fire to the house.

Yes, I know he did that, but how did he jump from knowing that to working out that Eadie and Robert were responsible for the boys' deaths? Did he know about the drugs and the corruption? Or was it just that it didn't make sense and he wanted her to explain it?

(Not that I care all that much, though! Lovely scenery but classic crime this was not.)

Love Tosh's jumper in the closing scenes.

Me too! The standard of knitwear on this series has been below par compared with previous ones, tsk tsk.

Because Robert was going to be exposed as a corrupt cop if drugs weren't fetched from a waiting boat & Eadie was to proud to let that happen.

So she asked/told her son & he agreed because he was "a dutiful son" & I guess also didn't want his dad exposed.

Arthur& Lana's son went because he was a better sailor & wouldn't let his friend go alone.

Arthur blamed Eadie for the death of his son & so killed her.