Director: Cat Jones
A house fire on the English coast pulls one detective into a case that has been quietly festering for years. The Jetty, a 2024 British thriller from director Cat Jones, follows Det. Ember Manning as a routine investigation opens onto a cold case, a true-crime podcast, and secrets several people have spent a long time protecting.
What is The Jetty about?
When a fire tears through a vacation property, Det. Ember Manning is assigned to work out how it started and who might have been inside. Her inquiry keeps circling back to a podcast journalist who has spent months digging into the unresolved disappearance of a young woman years earlier, and the deeper Manning goes, the more the two cases seem to be tangled together. Along the way she uncovers an illicit relationship between a man in his twenties and two underage girls, a connection that reframes almost everyone she has interviewed as either a witness, a suspect, or someone with something to hide. The series moves between the present-day fire investigation and the older cold case at a steady clip, letting each new piece of testimony complicate rather than simplify the picture. Manning's own instincts are tested as community loyalties, old grudges, and buried guilt keep surfacing in places she didn't expect to find them.
Cast & crew
Jenna Coleman leads as Det. Ember Manning, playing the character's persistence without turning her into a stock investigator, while Archie Renaux and Ruby Stokes handle some of the show's most difficult material with care. Bo Bragason, Tom Glynn-Carney, Amelia Bullmore, Laura Marcus, and Weruche Opia fill out an ensemble that keeps the small coastal community feeling lived-in rather than staged.
Context & significance
Cat Jones sets the series in a tight-knit seaside town where everyone seems to know everyone else's business, a setting that makes the show's central mystery of collective silence feel plausible rather than contrived. The podcast-within-the-show device also lets the series comment on how true-crime storytelling itself can reopen wounds that a community had tried to leave closed.
Where & how to watch
The Jetty streams on K-Time with a free account login, offered with both a Farsi-dubbed track and Farsi subtitles, alongside a Farsi-language interface built for the Iranian diaspora audience. Reading this page requires no purchase or download.