Rebus (2024)

Matt Roush says...

It has been a long wait for new episodes of Outlander — Season 7 finally resumes November 22 — but one of its stars can be seen in a very different and darker light in a gritty crime drama inspired by Sir Ian Rankin’s best-selling novels. Richard Rankin (no relation), best known as the time-traveling Roger MacKenzie, channels an impressive tough-guy vibe in the Russell Crowe/Liam Neeson mode as Scottish detective John Rebus, seen here as a Detective Sergeant before earning his promotion to Inspector (a character played in earlier versions by John Hannah and Ken Stott). In the six-part series, Rebus juggles an unhappy personal life as a divorced dad with a case involving rival gangsters — one of whom has a beef with Rebus’s estranged brother Michael (Brian Ferguson), an ex-soldier who recklessly stole from drug dealers and now has a target on his back.

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