Word: tennison
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Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) and her team take no voyeuristic pleasure from grotesque events they uncover. Nor do they condescend unduly to the queens and pawns in their investigation. The cops are just doing a job -- one that makes their off-duty lives look drab and irrelevant. Scenes of Tennison's wan private life are mere leavening agents in the acrid yet tangy melodrama that is her life on the force -- the only life she has, really...
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...ACTRESS ON TV SHUNS MAKEUP MORE defiantly than Helen Mirren. As London's detective chief inspector Jane Tennison, she wears every sag and wrinkle as if it were a combat medal. In Prime Suspect, last year's smashing PBS mini-series imported from Granada TV, Tennison struggled to prove her investigative mettle to male-chauvinist colleagues. That battle largely won, PRIME SUSPECT 2 (debuting Feb. 11 for four weeks) loses some of its feminist urgency. Here she investigates the murder of a black girl in a racially tense neighborhood and tries to keep her professional cool when a black detective...