Gaslighting: Dennis Stephenson, the leader of the Brethren, is a master of this.

Their doctrine includes the belief that only they will be taken into Heaven during the Rapture, with everyone else going to Hell even if they were otherwise good people. They avoid television and the internet as temptations and strive to avoid any 'worldly' things.

The Fundamentalist: The Brethren are depicted in the show as being very similar to extremely strict Mennonites.

It almost looks as though they are all very heavy smokers who never wash their windows.

Color Wash: Used in many scenes, but especially the yellow filter used whenever the inside of a Brethren home is shown.

The Woodyard community centre run by Jonathan in particular is a hub for social services. Most people seem to know who is local and who is not, and are familiar with each other.

Close-Knit Community: North Devon's permanent population is scattered throughout a number of towns and villages.

In the show, they eschew modern media and the women all wear dresses and headscarves. Female Brethren are also described as wearing fairly normal clothing, including trousers.

Character Exaggeration: In the novel, members of the Brethren are mentioned as doing things like watching TV, and Dennis even listens to cricket matches on the radio while in the car.

Because of his strict upbringing, Matthew is very uncomfortable with 'chaos' and became a police officer at least partly because it provides him with a sense of order and justice.

By-the-Book Cop: Detective Inspector Matthew Venn.

Adaptation Name Change: The surnames of various characters, including Jonathan, Dennis and Ross, are different in the show than they are the novel.

The Long Call provides examples of the following tropes: The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life and husband is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he’d left behind. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.

Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.

The series starts with Detective Inspector Matthew Venn standing outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. It premiered on ITV in the United Kingdom on 25 October 2021 and was released internationally as a BritBox original following broadcast. The Long Call is a British crime drama television series developed by Kelly Jones and Silverprint Pictures based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Ann Cleeves.

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