I love shows like that. I know gentrification can be a Very Bad Thing, but there’s something very satisfying about seeing a crumbling property brought back to life.
We tried to watch this when the first series started, I think. Is it about a 40some year old cop and her sister(?) lives with her? I remember the first episodes being a bit much about home life, something I don’t care for.
I’m seeing a lot of praise for the show as the new season starts. I am
thinking maybe we should go back and try again. That’s quite a hiatus between seasons, even for a Brit show.
Huh, maybe that’s why we quit on it. I thought Broadchurch was a snooze fest.
Is there a British show she hasn’t been in? She’s one of the few actors I know by name because I’ve seen her in so much.
We just finished season two of Queens of Mystery (Acorn) Very lightweight but kind of quirky/whimsical. There are self contained episodes and a background arc dealing with the disappearance of the young detective’s mom, and her three aunts covering it up.
I’m a bit embarrassed to say I told my wife that I liked the way the detective looked this time around as compared to back in 2019. Then I found out it’s actually a different actress. 
Queens of Mystery was ok, but I found it a little too lightweight. And I hate the trope of the aggressively hip older womna. It’s usually done so condescendingly (although QoM is not too bad). I hate the Fleur character on Midsomer Murders – the new medical examiner – she has every hip old lady cliche in the book.
Yep, that’s the one.
Also, what’s happened in her home life provides much of the character’s motivation, and triggers some of the story line in both season one and two. It’s worth watching for James Norton’s acting alone, IMO. He’s not your winsome Grantchester parish minister in this one.
Speaking of Happy Valley, we’ve started watching The Stranger. The connection? The idiot sister is HV in the lead cop in Stranger. A nice big turnaround in character portrayed.
Only a couple episodes in on Stranger. Might be too … ucky/nasty/violent for us.
But I’ve already seen a classic example of “That guy is going to get beaten up if knocks on that door.” trope. Doesn’t anybody in these shows know the standard bits in these types of shows? Might save getting pounded into the ground.
We happen to be in an Acorn sub now so I think we’ll give it a try again.
We just started The Circuit, an Australian series about the lawyers and judge in a vast circuit court who try bring the law to the Aboriginals. So far so good, we really like the lead. We’ve seem him in several series and this is the first time he isn’t a cop.
A student recommended The Owl House to me this year and so far it’s charming and fun! Like Disenchantment for kids.
You may also like Gravity Falls.
I was recommended Jury Duty (Amazon), so I thought I’d give it a try. It’s basically the (American) “The Office” set in a courtroom. And for the same reason I did not like the (American) “Office”, I am not enjoying this as much as I would have liked. The reason: they veered off from being realistic too far, and too soon. Particularly the premise: that one of the jurors isn’t an actor “in” on the gag.
After completing “Succession” recently I’m in the mood for a comfort watch and before trying something new I’m rewatching “Boardwalk Empire”.
One season in and loving it all over again, Michael Shannon is epically good and Stephen Graham is by far the best Al Capone.
I’m surprised to see this back for a second season. It seemed like the self-contained one season type of show.
I just started watching SWAT on Netflix. Four episodes in and I’m liking it so far.
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll have to check it out. Interesting to see how they move on from the ending of season one.
The new release of Never Have I Ever season four snuck up on me. I thought last season was the last season. Very nice little coming-of-age comedy, for anybody that hasn’t checked it out. (It is also a very nice little coming-of-age comedy for anybody that has checked it out.)
Started watching Based on a True Story. A dry parody of murder mystery TV shows. Think a lot of elements of The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, with a bit of Only Murders in the Building
Starting to watch season 1 of Strange New Worlds on youtube. Episode 1 was available quite a while ago, but the others are new to me. The ads are annoying – unlike ads on broadcast TV they don’t pop up at pauses in the story – they seem random to me. Most are skip-able at least.
I haven’t watched enough episodes to form an overall opinion, but so far I will continue to watch.
Brian
The ads randomly thrown in, some of which are as short as 5 seconds, are pretty annoying. I keep my finger on the “mute” button constantly.
As for the show itself, we were pretty excited to finally see it. Our reactions are mixed. The characters are likeable enough, most of them anyway, but Captain Pike’s propensity for wisecracking in almost every situation, no matter how dire, isn’t what I expect from the Captain of the Enterprise. I remember how people thought Jean-Luc Picard was just too serious at first, and they softened his personality in later episodes, but Pike isn’t serious enough. And he must spend hours getting his hair to be that perfect! Just my 2 cents.
We’ve been watching one episode per night, just in case YouTube suddenly decides to remove them. We watched episode 8 last night, but we both dozed off and missed most of it. It was a “fun” episode, which ST was always known for doing from time to time, so we don’t think we missed much.
Sounds fun. I usually can’t get Spouse Weasel to watch anything TrueCrime (he thinks it’s exploitative, and he’s not wrong) but he might be willing if it’s a parody.
The only exception he concedes is the paternalistic Joe Kenda in Homicide Hunter whom I affectionately call “Murder Dad.” I love that show because it really shows the psychological toll on Kenda and does not glorify any of it.
Nope. By “dry parody” like The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, I mean almost completely devoid of humor, but you can see that it is trying for it.