DI Ray series 2 review — the detective returns to work for more bigotry and clichés

I enjoyed the first series of DI Ray (ITV1), but for a while I feared the new one might be going for a full house on the TV cliché bingo card.It began in minute one with the titular detective running on the treadmill to show us how driven she is. Tick. When the head of an organised crime family and a nurse were killed outside a hospital DI Ray (Parminder Nagra) said that old favourite: “We need to get ahead of this before the press get wind.” Tick. She drank red wine out of a tea mug with a microwaved meal for one. Tick. When she and a colleague went to ask a kebab shop owner if he could help to shed any light on the murders he answered questions with his back to them continuing to chop cucumbers like nobody, other than TV characters, ever, ever does when detectives call. But there is an extra layer of oomph in DI Ray that you don’t get in most cop dramas, which is her experience of casual and not so casual racism. And that’s just at work. Her dinosaur superintendent (Ian…