What Karen Pirie gets right that so many police thrillers get wrong
are prime examples of the Dead Girl trope.
It's 1996 and Rosie is a barmaid in St Andrews, and we see her vibrant, laughing and joking in the opening scenes of the series. "I tried to minimise the gore of what happens to her, because I don't think it's about that, you don't want to be exploitative or sensationalist," Kenny says."I also really minimised what you see of what happens to Rosie. I tried to put the victim's experience in the mouths of the actresses and it felt like that was a better way of approaching this kind of story. I was really concerned to get it right.
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