{"id":50337,"date":"2024-04-26T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2031865"},"modified":"2024-04-26T20:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T18:55:50","slug":"shardlake-star-teases-complex-mystery-its-quite-twisty","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/shardlake-star-teases-complex-mystery-its-quite-twisty\/","title":{"rendered":"Shardlake star teases \u201ccomplex\u201d mystery: \u201cIt\u2019s quite twisty\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Even when you think you’ve solved it, there’s actually more and more and more.” <\/p>

By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 26 April 2024 at 17:00 PM<\/p>

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New Disney Plus<\/a> series Shardlake<\/a> is a real mash-up of genres \u2013 based on the novels by CJ Sansom, it\u2019s part historical drama, part fictional murder mystery, with the titular lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, investigating a murder in Tudor England.<\/p>\n

He is assigned to the case by Thomas Cromwell, after one of Cromwell\u2019s commissioners is killed while attempting to close a monastery. Shardlake is sent, along with Jack Barak, to both uncover the murderer, but also find reason to shut the monastery for good.<\/p>\n

Arthur Hughes (Then Barbara Met Alan) stars in the series<\/a> as the central character and, speaking at a recent Q&A, he revealed that viewers may have trouble if they\u2019re hoping to decipher just who the murderer is ahead of the big reveal.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he was able to guess the murderer himself, Hughes said: \u201cI think, reading it, I didn\u2019t. Because there\u2019s so many dead ends, red herrings, and there\u2019s just there\u2019s a lot of information. There\u2019s really so many layers to the story \u2013 it\u2019s quite twisty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arthur Hughes as Matthew Shardlake in Shardlake.<\/span><\/figcaption> Disney Plus<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

He continued: \u201cShardlake and Jack are kind of exploring every avenue and it\u2019s kind of impenetrable for them to get through for a while. These monks are like an organised crime family.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s down to how it\u2019s written and how Stephen has presented this front that they give.<\/p>\n

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