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Thing I Am Watching
Feb. 18th, 2024 03:50 pmSo Wife and I went looking for a show to watch together that isn't HGTV :whistles innocently:, and found The Brokenwood Mysteries - which is available streaming, but my local library has most of it on DVD, so we've been watching that way. And. Well. You know how publicists frequently love to describe TV series as 'exactly like OTHER SERIES (but different)'? The back cover copy on BROKENWOOD is 'Midsomer Murders combined with Columbo, set in New Zealand.' The lovely part is they aren't lying.
( This got long enough to go behind a cut, sorry. )
I have a very long list of Series I'm Totally Going To Try At Some Point, or Series I'm Going To Finish I Swear (OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH being an example of the former and THE SANDMAN being an example of the latter). But sometimes, you just want a series that demands nothing from you - a series where the good end happily and the bad unhappily ("because that is what fiction means" - 10 points if you recognize the quotation). And this series fills that desire for me. 10/10, do recommend.
( This got long enough to go behind a cut, sorry. )
I have a very long list of Series I'm Totally Going To Try At Some Point, or Series I'm Going To Finish I Swear (OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH being an example of the former and THE SANDMAN being an example of the latter). But sometimes, you just want a series that demands nothing from you - a series where the good end happily and the bad unhappily ("because that is what fiction means" - 10 points if you recognize the quotation). And this series fills that desire for me. 10/10, do recommend.