Shetland and Jack London Call of The Wild influence?
The whole illusion of being the beast, surviving the beast, and defeating the beast, mixing death and the afterlife with nature and violence, the real question emerges of who really is the beast? To take a crime show and expand it with deep parallels and metaphors is something brand new, to which at first when I was told Ann Cleeves said Jack London had such a HUGE impact on the creation of her writings and this show, I really wasn't able to make the connection. Though now I'm really starting to see it.
Is Jimmy Perez the beast in this or the protagonist?