Vera
Created by Ann Cleeves (novels); Paul Rutman (series) · UK · 90 min avg
DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) is a brilliant, prickly, and resolutely eccentric detective who investigates murders across the wild Northumberland landscape. Blethyn was 64 when the series began in 2011 and continued in the role into her 70s across 14 series — a remarkable testament to what a woman in her 60s and 70s can anchor in primetime drama. Adapted from the Ann Cleeves novels.
