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Rig 45 (2018)
Season 1 Excellent; Season 2 not so much...
Good acting, great plot. An unexpected event less than half-way in that upends all the usual expectations of an investigative procedural, and works quite well.
The season 1 ending was a bit of a downer, but it did enable a strong start to season 2.
Season 2 started out well, despite having two very unlikable police leads, but after an early death the writing quality diminishes, and the survivors do more and more inexplicable things that throw you out of the show and should have been caught in quality control in whatever the modern version of "the dailies" is.
The scenery in the glory shots - where the day is clear, the water is still, and the rig and ship are sitting there - is spectacular.
Point of No Return (1993)
Awesome Bridget Fonda vehicle
Most of the changes from the French original are for the worse, but the movie still holds together very well, and Bridget Fonda is outstanding in it. Roger Ebert gave it 3 stars out of 4 (and admitted he might have downgraded it due to deja vu after seeing the French version).
I saw this movie titled "The Assassin", and can't help thinking this movie would have attracted a larger US audience if this title was used instead of the ho-hum "Point of No Return".