{"id":280292,"date":"2026-02-08T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280292\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:35:08","slug":"review-under-salt-marsh-s1-e3-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280292\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Under Salt Marsh (S1 E3\/6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Episode three of Under Salt Marsh sees Sky\u2019s new six-part thriller dig deeper, darker, and with real intent into what\u2019s going on in the fictional community of Morfa Halen. After a debut that really took great care and time to build mood, intrigue and a quietly gripping whodunit story, this chapter keeps the same simmering pace while detonating a series of revelations that reframe almost everything we thought we knew.<\/p>\n

Kelly Reilly and Rafe Spall continue to make an oddly compelling investigative pairing. Their dynamic remains unconventional \u2013 sometimes abrasive, sometimes oddly tender \u2013 but it works precisely because it resists the usual cop-show rhythms. There\u2019s friction, history, and a sense that neither quite trusts the other\u2019s instincts, even when they\u2019re aligned.<\/p>\n

Much of the episode\u2019s attention centres on the toxic waste buried at the landfill on Solomon Bevan\u2019s farm. Patriarch Solomon, unsurprisingly, denies any wrongdoing, despite the uncomfortable fact that Cefin visited the farm on the day of his death. Bull\u2019s police partner Jess Deng, however, begins to look past the obvious suspect and focuses instead on August Antonov, the Romanian farmhand, an angle that raises uncomfortable questions about exploitation, power, and who gets blamed when secrets get buried.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Jackie\u2019s investigation into the now-adult \u2018kids\u2019 who were with Nessa during her last day delivers some of the episode\u2019s most devastating material. Cathy\u2019s confession about their treatment of Nessa is chilling: the bullying, the dares, the threats when Nessa said she\u2019d tell her parents. Most crucially, Ness wasn\u2019t in the woods as previously believed, but alone at the quarry. That revelation lands with grim inevitability.<\/p>\n

The personal storylines continue to add character depth as the procedural business grinds on. Jackie\u2019s pregnancy by her rough-edged toyboy Dylan Rees is a genuine shock, while Bull\u2019s long-ambiguous relationship with meteorologist Gareth Morgan finally tips into clarity. Their night together \u2013 following a break-in at Morgan\u2019s house \u2013 feels less sensational than quietly sad, a glimpse into Bull\u2019s unresolved interior life.<\/p>\n

Then comes the real gut punch: Nessa\u2019s body is found at the quarry, buried in what appears to be a shallow grave. Solomon\u2019s sudden march into the police station to \u201cconfess\u201d is a strong cliffhanger, but perhaps the episode\u2019s biggest under-the-radar moment is subtler: Jackie reframes Nessa and Cefin\u2019s childhood drawings, once thought to depict a beekeeper, as unmistakably a man in a hazmat suit. <\/p>\n

Paul Hirons<\/p>\n

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Rating: 4 out of 5.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: OUR REVIEW OF EPISODES ONE AND TWO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Episode three of Under Salt Marsh sees Sky\u2019s new six-part thriller dig deeper, darker, and with real intent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-280292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}