TOSet on the beautiful island of Saint Marie this evening at 21.20 on Rai 2 they come back the new episodes of Crimes in Paradise. Crime series, in its twelfth season, produced by the BBC and starring a police inspector, Neville Parkerstruggling with a series of crimes to solve.
Crimes in Paradise: plot and previews of the new season
The Chief Inspector Neville Parker (Ralf Little) is a London detective, serious, professional and abiding by the rules. Much to his disappointment, he comes transferred to service at Saint Mariea remote Caribbean atoll – a former French colony, now a British overseas dependency. Richard he is the classic man from across the Channel who has always found himself at ease in the cold and greyness of the English capital. And that, at least at the beginning, he can’t stand the climate and the wild nature of the island.
After much resistance, however, the island of Saint Marie enters Neville’s heart, as well as the beautiful women who populate it. In the first episode of the twelfth season, man has to investigate the mystery related to group of astronomers who are on the island to witness a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event on the cliffs of Saint Marie. That is to observe the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn in the night sky.
The cast of “Crimes in Paradise”. (Courtsey BBC)
However, things take a sinister turn when a famous professor (and Neville’s idol), Bertrand Sworder, is found mysteriously murdered. In the meantime, the inspector meets a woman, that maybe could warm his heart, e a new sergeant – the beautiful Naomi Thomas (Shantol Jackson) – is ready to support him in the complicated investigations.
We’ll see in the next episodes the departure from the police force of Inspector Florant (Joséphine Jobert), colleague of which Neville he had fallen madly in love in previous seasons but that the woman had always wanted only and only as a friend.
All inspectors of Crimes in Paradise
No inspector of Crimes in Paradise he would be able to unmask the culprits without the help of his own team. He didn’t, in the past, Inspector Richard Poole (played by Ben Miller)the first to arrive on the Island to investigate the murder of a colleague and then permanently transferred to Saint Marie. Then it was the turn of theInspector Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall), landed on the island at the beginning of the third season to find the Poole’s killers, killed himself. The farewell of his wife, who leaves him while he is in Saint Marie, convinces him to stay in the Caribbean sun, where it remains until the middle of season six when he returns to England to follow the woman who, known on the island where he was on vacation, had stolen his heart.
Ralf Little as Inspector Neville Parker. (Courtesy Rai)
The third inspector, Jack Mooney (Ardal O’Hanlon), a widower with one daughter, investigates until the middle of the ninth season when it arrives Neville Parker played by the charming Ralph Little.
The success (and future) of the series
One of the great merits of the TV series’ longevity is its narrative scheme, or the one that sees in the center a British police detective who finds himself, often against his will, catapulted to carry out his work in a distant Caribbean atoll. Beyond the more yellowish aspects of the plot, a large part of the narration plays on the so-called “culture clash” generated by the encounter between the habits of the typical exponent of the English middle class and the lifestyle of a post-colonial society and not urbanized like the Caribbean one.
A unicum of its kind which, for some time now, has been one of the flagships of the vast BBC television production which, to the delight of the many spectators scattered around the world, reconfirmed the series through 2025 for two more seasons. And, to investigate, we will always find the good Inspector Neville and who knows what other mysteries man will have to solve.
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