{"id":41103,"date":"2023-03-08T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=41103"},"modified":"2023-03-08T05:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T11:14:44","slug":"scottish-television-mystery-series-taggart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/scottish-television-mystery-series-taggart\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Television Mystery Series: Taggart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FOQhXo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41132 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/taggart-300x225.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/taggart-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/taggart-150x113.webp 150w, https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/taggart.webp 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>How did we miss this police procedural show?! My husband and I have been loving <em><strong>Taggart<\/strong><\/em>! I must warn you, though: it is not a Cozy Mystery series. The main character, Detective Chief Inspector Taggart, is quite acerbic and has a wickedly dry sense of humor. He does not &#8220;suffer fools lightly&#8221;.\u00a0 <em><strong>Taggart<\/strong><\/em> ran from 1983 to 2010, so there are lots of shows to watch&#8230; which is great news for us! (Since this is a Scottish show, the accents can be pretty strong at times so you may need to use the subtitles.)<\/p>\n<p>Mark McManus is absolutely terrific as <em><strong>Taggart<\/strong><\/em>. Actually, all of the acting is really good. The relationship between Taggart and his wife (beautifully played by Harriet Buchan) is of particular interest to me. His wife doesn&#8217;t let the fact that she is wheelchair-bound stop her from having many outside interests\/jobs &#8211; as well it shouldn&#8217;t. She gets quite upset at how Taggart lives for his job and doesn&#8217;t seem to enjoy anything other than excelling as a detective. (At the beginning of the series Taggart boasts about never living\/visiting anywhere outside of Glasgow &#8211; and he is not a young man!)<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned at the beginning of this entry, this series is not Cozy! It is set during the time the shows were produced &#8211; although watching today makes them seem &#8220;historical&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The shows are very well-written &#8211; the plots make sense. The women detectives don&#8217;t chase down suspects in their stilettoes (I&#8217;m guessing a lot of you are tired of me saying that!) The actors (mostly) look like normal people&#8230; they don&#8217;t all look like young models. (Why do shows made in the US have such unrealistic looking characters?)<\/p>\n<p>I definitely recommend the series to those of you who enjoy gritty police procedurals. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FOQhXo\"><em><strong>Taggart<\/strong><\/em> is available on BritBox<\/a> &#8211; but be prepared to use subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you\u2019re interested in taking a look at some other good mystery shows, make sure to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/cozy-mystery-tv-and-movies.html\"><strong>go to my Cozy Mystery TV and Movies page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did we miss this police procedural show?! My husband and I have been loving Taggart! I must warn you, though: it is not a Cozy Mystery series. The main character, Detective Chief Inspector Taggart, is quite acerbic and has a wickedly dry sense of humor. He does not &#8220;suffer fools lightly&#8221;.\u00a0 Taggart ran from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-moviestv-shows","7":"category-tv","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-aGX","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41149,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41103\/revisions\/41149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}