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Can Anyone Help Me with the Background of his Partner, D.I.Mared Rhys ?

posted 8 years ago by NJJoany
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This part is played by Mali Harries. I do like her & her character very much but seriously, all she did was give "looks", looks and more looks. I have no memory of her background & do not want to go through season 1 again. I just finished episode 2 of season 2 and the deep, long looks between her & Matthias & between her & her daughter --I don't have a clue what is going on with her.
I know she was heading the case in episode 1 & they put him in charge --OK I did get that but wouldn't it be nice if she shared some feelings with somebody?

Didn't see a husband & don't remember what happened to the father of her daughter. Can anyone fill me in? Is she divorced or widowed?

---------OK NEW SUBJECT----more long looks and very little talking between DI Matthias and the red-headed, tough ex-soldier in his house. The scenes with the gun,etc. Richard Harrington didn't say anything except "how can you live with all that"--the rest of his part was looks, & more looks. Yikes!

I think it's gotten to the point of being ridiculous. All the long looks with no dialogue. Hope I got my point across that there are too many scenes with no talking and just long, Looks between actors. Please fix

Anyway, if anyone can help me out with his partner's life, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance

P.S. The blonde actress that plays DC Owens is gorgeous.

[–] mark5000910 8 years ago

Ive just come to this series and support this critique completely.
My wife and I kept wanting to speed forward through the episode.
Very slow (I know it's Wales, but ...) and those long, long looks!
No chirpy banter (in a Police Station?).
It's a great shame.
I'll probably give up on it if the plot lines don't begin to match the dark and moody style.

[–] NJJoany 8 years ago

Thanks Mark5000910 for the reply & your comments. Too bad no one else gave me a hint as to what's going on with His female partner. I just don't have the time to go over season 1. And I've looked & found nothing on her background. Be nice if there were some details as to who these detectives really are.

A lot of movies and TV series have story lines and plots detailed but I guess because this is a Netflix original; they do things differently ? maybe/

[–] Daithi-orian 8 years ago

I think the lead character is just meant to be the usual brooding DCI. As the series goes on they reveal he's returned to Wales after some sort of botched police investigation in London and a family tragedy

I suspect the issues between him and his female partner are because he was promoted over her

[–] eileen-guthrie555 8 years ago

This is what I was able to find on the internet about the character in question.

Everyone has his own burden to carry and after years of juggling a successful career with the police and bringing up her daughter, it's time for Mared Rhys to take stock of her life. Mared is young to have risen so quickly through the ranks, but she’s earned it – a combination of hard work and natural talent. She’s intelligent, perceptive and independent, she loves what she does and she gets results. But has success come at the expense of her personal life?

Detective Inspector Mared Rhys is a local girl from middle-class stock. She knows the fabric of Aberystwyth society inside out, she’s bound to the place for better or worse; this is home. Mared is young to have risen so quickly through the ranks, but she’s earned it – a combination of hard work and natural talent. She’s intelligent, perceptive and independent, she loves what she does and she gets results. She is attractive, but doesn’t trade on it, and has no patience with those who do.

In order to look up the series, you need to know the Welsh title "Y Gwyll" (English translation "The Dusk"). That's how I was able to find a little more detail to the character. But, that's all I could find. It may just be that the creators wanted to focus on the crimes/murders and less on the characters other then Matthias, who has a muddled past.

[–] eileen-guthrie555 8 years ago

Very slow (I know it's Wales, but ...) and those long, long looks!

I don't find this series slow. Try watching "The Fall" slow as molasses, too many repetitive scenes. No tension and suspense until the last few episodes from Season 2.

This series has better pacing. I tried to watch Wallander with Kenneth Branagh but just couldn't get into it. They live in Sweden yet every character seems to have an English accent.

No chirpy banter (in a Police Station?).

Why should there chirpy banter? They are investigating a murder. Stick to the US crime/police drama's there more your speed. I, don't like them, to formula, too neatly package, too easy to know the villains identity. 

[–] mamac-4 8 years ago

No need to watch again. There is a scene in season 1 when Rhys' mother is in her house. She seemed at home as if she lived there with Rhys and Rhys's teenaged daughter. It gave me the impression that Rhys had her mother as a help. Later in season 1, I believe during a trying case about a young person, (Sorry to be vague. It's been a while.) Rhys comes home and suddenly hugs her daughter. The daughter is surprised, and I was left with the impression there hasn't been much affection.

I just finished season 2, and without giving spoilers, she's not close to her daughter the way she wishes. Hopefully in season 3, the writers will explore her story.

There's been no mention of a husband or
partner.

[–] Helena727 7 years ago

Rhys comes home and suddenly hugs her daughter. The daughter is surprised, and I was left with the impression there hasn't been much affection.

I just watched this ep (1x4). The daughter is surprised not by the hug but by its intensity (and it's intense because Rhys is thinking about how awful it would be were she to lose her own daughter). We see them in an earlier ep (daughter, Rhys, and R's mother) behaving like a normal, affectionate, teasing (sometimes a little meanly) family -- so I think there's nothing to support the idea that there wasn't much affection between mother and daughter.

There is a hint in the 1st or 2nd ep that Rhys had her daughter when she was still a teenager, which suggests to me that she didn't get married and instead raised the daughter with help from her mother, but that's a separate issue.

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

[–] blakegirl 8 years ago

Sorry can't help with background but totally agree with the annoying long, long looks. Just ridiculous and ruins a very good show.

[–] LadyU 7 years ago

There's more on Mared's backstory in season 3. However, if you find the show slow you're not really going to be interested. Part of the show's selling point is the broodiness and the scenery. In many ways the story is just there to facilitate a huge advert for Mid Wales.

[–] CobblersAwls 7 years ago

Yes, for those interested in Mared and her daughter, in Series 3 it's all explained.

I won't spoil it here.

In the early series I believe Mared was simply known as a single mother raising her daughter and her mom was around to assist.

Have not watched that first series for several years now, but given how complete the explanation was in Series 3 just concluded--and it was presented as a kind of new reveal story--I'd be surprised if Series 1 had anything but "single mother" as an explanation.

I jusst finished all of the new Series 3 on its home network S4c in Wales.

Netflix Original? How? Not remotely original to Netflix. But they always say that about shows that have been around on BBC for eons and elsewhere. It's always been really misleading for Netflix to do that, but they persist for some reason.

This series is original to its own Welsh language station located in Wales called S4C and it's an S4C original--not Netflix.

For those who know this series well, you will also know it's filmed in both Welsh and English when it's being made---for distribution in English around the world, after it premieres first only in original Welsh on its native Wales station S4C.

Series 3 has just concluded on S4C in Welsh.