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Granite Harbour: Episode #2.3 (2024)
Poor, poor, poor.
About as suspenseful as broken knicker elastic. The plot is weak and concerns the importation and sale of ketamin on the streets of Aberdeen which neither the police nor the city's prime crime family seem to have noticed.
I found it hard to believe in any of the characters due to the wooden acting and none of them was likeable.
The story also deals with illegal immigrants with the usual tropes, including those mean immigration officers and the sympathetic cop and social worker.
It's a detective "drama" with a very loose interpretation of police procedure, which is very distracting and full of the obligatary cliches.
It's the kind of rubbish I would expect to see in the afternoon schedules rather than peak time.
I really cannot describe how bad this is.
Fool Me Once (2024)
Major plot hole.....avoid.
I was intrigued by the opening 7 episodes of this mystery but was left with more questions than answers at the end.
Maya Burkett killed her husband. She knows he's dead. She maintains that he is dead throughout the series. She was there. So why does she go into a long, drawn out investigation after supposedly seeing him on the nanny cam? She knows her husband killed her sister so justice has been served, in her eyes. To avoid detection, surely it would be better to keep her head down and get on with her life normally?
As for the police investigation, any watcher of fly on the wall police documentaries will know that CCTV is one of the first things to be checked so the identities of the motorcyclists would have been ascertained within a couple of days and hence, the shooter...ie Maya.
Endeavour: Terminus (2021)
Quit while you are ahead.
To me, Endeavour is the finest police procedural ever produced. I was an avid Morse watcher but this drama had transcended almost every episode of that drama to the point that I can rarely see any similarity between the younger Endeavour and the older Morse.
I have watched seasons 1-6 three or four times and will probably do so again in future. However, series 7 was a huge disappointment with the unlikely story lines and improbable plots with the two main characters travelling halfway across Europe at the drop of a hat over Christmas, something that is highly unlikely these days, let alone during the early 70's.
Every show needs a small change in direction to keep it fresh but I had imagined that, after experimenting with the ridiculous that was series 7, the producers might return to the winning formula with the cerebral Endeavour letting his brain rule his heart rather than vice versa.
Alas, series 8 has proved a great disappointment with more improbable plots culminating in this farce of a whodunit which is totally at odds with the earlier shows. Some of the acting - e.g. The character of the bus conductor - was so hammy, I thought I was watching a Paul Whitehouse sketch show.
Endeavour has strived for authenticity and has succeeded in interweaving national and international events if the 60s into the plots of each episode but all that seems to have gone by the by. For instance, the London Transport buses used to double up for Oxford double deckers. At one point buses with the LT roundel can be seen in the background. Very shoddy and it leaves one wondering whether the desire to produce this show to the highest standards it has set itself in the past is still there.
I would be sad to see the end of this drama but, in the end, it is kinder to put it out of its misery if this is what we can expect in future.
Den som dræber - Fanget af mørket: Afsnit 1 (2021)
Miss Marple would have solved this in 2 hours.
Another drawn out drama that could have been condensed to a third of its length.
The plot is predictable, the police methodology is laughable and any tension is dissipated by the slow pace of the writing. For 5 hours of this drama, the police are no closer to finding the perpetrator than they were at the start. The freelance profiler offers little by way of insight to the mind of the killer - Wire In The Blood this is not - and, eventually, he is identified by accident.
Hardly worth the 6 hours of viewing time. Certainly no Scandi-noir.
Inside No. 9: Lip Service (2021)
Echoes of The Conversation
Like all episodes, it is difficult to rate on the basis of one viewing. Not all the nuances are obvious as one concentrates on plot.
Listen to the piano score that accompanies this play which I found reminiscent of the soundtrack from The Conversation from which, I'm sure, this episode drew some inspiration.