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The Crown (2016)
Yawn...for Season Three
Maybe it is good to quit while ahead. Season Three has some great actors like Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter and the rising star Josh O'Connor but the story line is totally soapy and gone awry. Suggest you watch it before bedtime; will help you go to sleep. 6/10 only because the costumes and setting are still pretty good.
Love Hurts (1992)
So far so good....
I am really enjoying watching this series. I love the actors and the entanglements they get into. I find the stories as topical today as they were then. Some episodes are slower than others, but so is life. Curius to see what happens in series 3.
Unforgotten (2015)
Not All Baby-Boomers are BAD...
Just finished watching the first story of season one. I really like the concept and the acting is superb but the characters are a bit too one-sided and there is a lot of stereotyping (Blacks are uneducated, Turks are thugs), with most baby boomers portrayed as immoral,, whereas the now-genaration are geneerally good; they have a better grip on morality and are the ones "fixing"the world.. Come on writers, get real! You need to write in some older characters and more minorities who also have some sense of morality and are not just bad or door-mats. Sorry, but the young-white-European carrying the moral compass of the world is not very realistic any more; this from a relatively young, European female...Two points off for all that...
Lewis (2006)
Almost Perfection
I recently watched all the episodes again, starting with with Pilot (Episode 0, as labelled).This show is almost perfection, with fine acting and engaging story lines in a beautiful and civilized setting, except for the last few episodes when it tries to be a little too American. Sorry, there is no other way to put it. The stories become more and more violent, the characters added lack true representation of the British population (hardly any major South Asian characters) but most importantly, the focus shifts from Lewis, the middle-aged Gentle Hero (after whom the show is named!) to Hathaway the Young-and- the-Proud. Even the final scene is off-base. I believe the US backed production has something to do with this obvious shift, not realizing that one of the main reasons British crime shows are so popular in the US (and worldwide) is because, unlike their American counterparts, they are unrealistically more gentle and civilized in their approach to crime and also have something distinctly British about them. So, if any of the producers is reading this, please do not mess with a good thing. Thank you PBS, for getting it almost perfectly right.