Marcella
2016
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 24 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 45 min/episode
CrimeDrama
Marcella is shocked to the core of her being when her husband Jason leaves her unexpectedly, confessing he no longer loves her. Heartbroken, Marcella returns to the Met’s Murder Squad. Ten years ago Marcella gave up her fast-tracked police career to marry and devote her life to her family. With the abrupt end to her marriage and isolated from her 13 year old daughter and 10 year old son, Marcella throws herself into work to stop herself from falling apart.
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Seasons
Season 1
Former detective Marcella Backland is shocked to the core when her husband Jason leaves her unexpectedly, confessing he no longer loves her. Heartbroken, she returns to her job on the Met's murder squad that she gave up 10 years before to have her second child, and decides to follow up on a hunch she had in a case involving a serial killer.
Season 2
The discovery of a young boy's body sends Marcella and the team after a child killer.
Season 3
Following on from the dramatic conclusion of the previous series, season 3 sees Marcella in Belfast as an undercover detective. She has taken on a new identity, Keira, and has infiltrated the infamous Maguire crime family but as she investigates their activities, questions come to the fore about how much she’s embraced the Keira personality and left Marcella behind.
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User Reviews
**WARNING: Don't take massive amounts of narcotics and then try to write a TV show 🚨**
This dumb show is a great example of writers and production both apparently consuming large amounts of hallucinogens and/or narcotics and then attempting to put together a linear story. I cannot believe Netflix let this be released in it's current state, just baffling decisions by everyone involved. It reminded me of those drug movies from the 1970s where it's clear the people behind the camera were under the completely out of it, and obviously under the influence 🥴
After seeing Season three, I fully understand why the show was canceled!
**1/10 Not Recommended!**
November 14, 2025
Marcella was a series that I was a little apprehensive to watch for some reason but I must admit that it pleasantly surprised me.
It was your run of the mill formula series. It had some very good writing and the characters were very believable, probably cause they weren’t that likable in their roles.
It was a nice break from your Hollywood engine of series that come off a conveyer belt.
So it had good merit.
Although I’d hope they leave the series at two seasons as that could probably kill it.
April 12, 2018
Crew
Writer/Creator
Nicola Larder, Hans Rosenfeldt
Network
ITV1
Production
Buccaneer Media
Keywords
london, englanddetectivepolicemurderfemale protagonistmurder investigation