# Rediscovering "Cadfael" (PBS Mystery series)

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**Created:** [July 26, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-cadfael-pbs-mystery-series/818592 "2018-07-26T01:28:14Z")\
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Just finished the last Cadfael. ☹

It was certainly nice to watch a mystery where a cell phone didn’t ring every two minutes.

When the pilgrims in this episode started chanting the Litany of the Saints in Latin, i was instantly propelled back in time to the Good Fridays of my childhood.

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> Almost anything with Nicola Walker is going to be worth watching. Cf. _River_ (also 6 episodes).

Yes! _Unforgotten_ is back, too, for series 3.

Wales has been turning out some watchable stuff lately, with _Hidden_ being very like some of the Scandi dramas (originally aired all in Welsh, now airing in a dual language format with subtitles) and superior (barring Idris Elba) to _Luther_ IMO.

Editing to add _Shetland_, cause I like it. And _Field of Blood_, which I don’t know if you got in the US

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**Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-cadfael-pbs-mystery-series/818592/23 "2018-07-27T15:06:58Z")

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> or the earlier Maigret with Michael Gambon?

Or the version in French (with subtitles) with Bruno Cremer?

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