Beyond Paradise is custom-built to be a big warm hug, and it returns for a third series with its cast of characters now so well established that they don’t require further exposition. There’s Humphrey and Martha (Sally Bretton) and their quest to foster a child; Humphrey’s competent sidekick DS Esther Williams (Zahra Ahmadi) and the more humorous station regulars, office manager Margo (Felicity Montagu) and resident dimwit Kelby (Dylan Llewellyn from Derry Girls and Big Boys).
Zahra Ahmadi as DS Esther Williams and Dylan Llewellyn as PC Kelby Hartford (Photo: BBC/Red Planet Pictures/Joss Barratt)
And, of course, it all looks lovely – bucolic and endlessly sunny – with the Cornish harbour town of Looe playing the fictional Devon fishing port of Shipton Abbott. Hopefully, the residents of Looe are coping with the sort of tourist influx that turned Port Isaac into a mecca for Doc Martin fans.
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In the new series opener, this involves a car plunging into the river separating Devon from Cornwall, and its driver, Niall, being drowned,. Entering the water in Cornwall but the body being retrieved in Devon results in a conflict of jurisdiction between the neighbouring police forces and Humphrey’s antagonistic Cornish counterpart wants to write off the death as a road traffic accident.
Kris Marshall as Humphrey Goodman and Sally Bretton as Martha Lloyd (Photo: BBC/Red Planet Pictures/Joss Barratt)
The denouement is ingenious if far-fetched, nice-but-dim Kelby accidentally providing the vital clue when he goes to investigate a nearby case of sheep wrangling.
We also get a surprise insight into Humphrey and Martha’s mildly kinky sex life – Kris Marshall’s character discovering an old pair of handcuffs and suggesting a spot of bondage. I couldn’t tell whether Martha looked eager or embarrassed.
‘Beyond Paradise’ continues next Friday at 8pm on BBC One
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