Another excellent short series (three eps) on “Masterpiece Mysteries” on PBS. The protagonist is a former British military man and cop turned private investigator. It stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie, which is a great choice for the role of a man whose face shows the pain of his past. The stories are complex enough to hold your interest, and there is enough time (2 hours) to allow unhurried resolution to the mysteries. Sex and violence administered in reasonable doses. The series was filmed in Edinburgh, so there are some nice shots of the city’s environs. The last ep airs next Sunday evening.
Thank goodness I have read all the books, or I would be *lost *(esp. with some of the indecipherable accents). Am enjoying–and I recently saw Adam Godley, who played the jug-eared writer last night, on Broadway In Anything Goes!
Yeah, the accents can be thick, particularly when people are mumbling their lines when acting tired. The head cop’s son was completely unintelligible. All around excellent cast and plots that don’t require a huge leap of logic like the ones in Luther.
During that scene in front of the house when Jackson has finally tracked down his little missing daughter, was I the only one yelling at my set, “Call her mother, you idiot!”
I loves me my closed-captioning, I do. Hell, I often use it with American-made shows. Doc says my hearing is fine, but I find I often have trouble understanding what people on TV shows are saying (oddly, no issue with the news).
He is *quite *scenic, isn’t he?
I liked the first one a lot. Haven’t watched the second yet, but it’s on my DVR. Did anyone notice if he pressed charges on the guy (Quentin, was it?) who followed him and attacked him because he was doing nice things for the guy’s great aunt?
Men have a proud tradition of sticking their dicks into most anybody that will let them do so. Ethics or morality seldom enters into the picture. I find it to be a bit of realism that is in keeping with his character.
That was an enjoyable wrap-up! They changed a *lot *from the book in this ep.–cut characters and plots entirely–which I think was a very good idea. Too crowded as it was.
Now that I am finally catching on to their accents, it’s over . . .
Chefguy, are you enjoying the books? I never read mysteries, but a friend talked me into Kate Atkinson, and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Didn’t even read them in order, but that didn’t really matter. Good intricate plots, humor, 'orrible murder.
I’m reading the first one, “Case Histories” and enjoying it quite a bit. She has a good sense of humor and the character development is excellent. I think a good editor could have trimmed it down a bit to make it a tighter read, however. I noted in the Amazon reviews that some thought it seemed like she had written several novellas and her publisher told her to link them all together into a book with the detective as the linking character. Perhaps, but she did a good job of it, whatever the case. I think my favorite character in both the book and the series was Deborah, his receptionist. Hot and sassy (is that not a PC word now?), with a jaded outlook on the world.
