Saturday, September 25, 2021

Vera Season 7 Episode 4, The Blanket Mire aired March , 2017

      A surveying team working on the Northumberland moors makes a shocking discovery!!  The body of a young woman is found buried beneath the soil!!  The body is 18 year old teenager Mia Hinkin and she has been discovered six weeks after her disappearance.  She lived on a nearby remote farmhouse with her stern parents Mal and Nell.  She was last seen at a music festival where she was seen arguing with an older man.  He is possibly stable owner Gary Tovey and she occasionally worked for him.  Eastern European migrant pickers from an adjacent farm are also in the frame as suspects.  Everybody in the area agrees that she was desperate to leave her unhappy home.  Vera suspects that somebody she met at the festival was helping her escape. 

     Mia was looking for a happier urban existence and this holds the clue to her death.  Vera cannot dismiss the many friends, neighbors and an ex-lover who were keen to help her move away from her miserable rural life.  Mia shared her confidences with her younger brother and he wanted to help her get away too.  It makes Vera and her team do a LOT of digging to get information about this case.  5* (I really liked this series)


Note:  Imdb 8* out of 10* with 317 reviews, Rotten tomatoes 71% with 7 audience scores, Amazon 5* with 390 reviews.

  

89 min, Crime directed by John Hayes, written by Ann Cleaves, Martha Hillier, Paul Matthew Thompson with Brenda Blethyn, Kenny Doughty, Jon Morrison, Christopher Colquhoun and Noof McEwan, Kate Dickie, Steve Evets, David Wilmot, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Martin McCann, Jonjo O’Neill.

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