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lol I can’t, I’ve been asking for a higher charging limit than the $200 I have! It hasn’t been raised since I applied decades ago. I did a quick google and apparently this is a target issue (excellent credit score). I explained I can’t even grocery shop with $200.
I don’t know how I missed this, since I like the genre and have read the Val McDermid books. Anyway, I just started watching Season One. So far, so good.
Season 2 was released in the UK a couple of months ago and will be in Britbox in October
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On some plans. When I went to sign up for Hulu, couldn’t do it, so i called and they said it isn’t on all plans, but it WAS on my plan. Now I’m going to change plans and I’m sure it will not be on that plan (it is $35/mo cheaper than my current plan, and I don’t like Hulu $35 worth).
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I keep seeing Karen Pirie pop up. I will have to watch - thanks!
But Happy Valley, which was recommended on this thread, is finally on Prime or Brit Box for free (I have been periodically checking for it) and we are really enjoying it. We finished season 1 - which is from 2014 - and are in season 2 now. It totally stands the test of time!
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Season 2 is based on A Darker Domain which I remember as providing more background on the Miners’ Strike and scabs in Scotland etc. which was very interesting but the series kinda cut that down.
The actress looks very different than what I pictured her to be 
Very good show though.
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Eugene levy the reluctant traveler season 3 just recently dropped, enjoyed the others. Have to finish up the Charlie Sheen documentary, which I’m liking a lot more than I thought I would.
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What’s it like? Where does he go/visit?
Finland, Costa Rica, Venice, Utah, Maldives, South Africa, Lisbon, Tokyo, Sweden, Scotland, France, Germany, France, Spain, Mexico. Austria, Greece, New Orleans… I like his humor, and his reluctance.
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Same. And Phil is nothing like I imagined
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I watched part of the first episode and decided to punt. Ozark was enough for me!
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Started Marlow Murder club.
First season is one single mystery. Second season is 3 2-episode mysteries.
It’s a cozy mystery taking place in a posh English village by the Thames. If you know the genre, you know there’s going to be an improbable number of murders in that quiet, picturesque place. Our sleuths are three women:
The first is a retired archeologist who loves wild swimming (the most implausible part in the whole thing is probably that you can swim without protection in English rivers! It’d be disgusting and dangerous in real life due to what privatization did to the water quality - they routinely release raw sewage into the streams rather than clean it, it’s currently a HUGE scandal). Anyway, in one of her outings swimming in the nude in the middle of the river, she hears her neighbor shouting and being shot. She swims back, dresses, and calls the police; they do a perfunctory search of the outside of the house because there’s never been a murder in Marlow (the highest ranking person there is a sergent, there’s not even an inspector) and there are far too many rich old people with time on their hands and an overactive imagination; not really looking, they find nothing. So she decides to investigate what happened to her neighbor.
She’s joined by a dog walker and the vicar’s wife who each have some relation to a victim or a suspect. Keeps you guessing.
The production values are good - they milk the pretty places for all their picturesque’s worth and like in most college viewbooks it’s always Spring/Summer and it’s always sunny/it never rains (#2 most implausible part.) Some humor, no blood shown, no bad language, basically a family-friendly whodunnit.
There’s no episode without a couple implausible moments in addition to the clean river and lack of rain, but if you can suspend disbelief it’s a very pleasant series, based on popular novels. I’d say ideal when cooking or for a quiet evening with grandkids willing to try and figure out who did it and why (lots of clues).
ETA the second trailer
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To praphtase Mint, I don’t need that background; I saw Billy Elliot. 
Plus I read the book and learned about it in primary school history class
Anyway, I finished both seasons over the weekend — each season is only 3 episodes. I highly recommend for fans of Vera and Shetland .
After seeing clips from the Dawson Creek reunion Monday night, I plan to binge the show. That was a never-miss for me and my friends in the 90s.
The night was produced by Michelle Williams and others in support of James Van Der Beek, who is fighting Stage 3 colorectal cancer. The highlight was a table read of episode one (and some key scenes throughout the series) and all the cast was scheduled to be there. Unfortunately Van Der Beek was too unwell to attend so Lin Manuel Miranda stepped in last-minute as “understudy” for the read-through. At one point the entire cast came on stage to sing the theme song and Van Der Beek’s young daughters had a short duet. His wife and other 4 children also joined the cast on stage. I won’t lie; I was a sobbing mess watching that.
I’m looking forward to all the “feels” when revisiting the DC world.
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Just finished my hurried re-watch of The Good Place before it leaves Netflix. Cried through the entire last episode. What a great show! Definitely a top five all-time for me.
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Started Good Ship Murder last night on Britbox. We like Silent Witness, have almost 20 seasons to go, but were looking for something lighter, the kind of whodunit BBC airs mid afternoon (think Father Brown, Death in Paradise, etc.)
It was good enough to continue watching. Imagine The Love Boat, with new guest stars every episode, but instead of love they are entangled in a murder either on ship or in port.
Sleuth is a former cop turned cruise ship singer. They film on a huge (6K passengers) MSC cruise ship while it’s on a cruise. Passengers can get roles as extras.
Britbox has 2 seasons, 16 episodes, one is a Christmas special.
Parallel to my Good Place rewatch, H and I also raced through Andor. I have to say, that that is an amazing series. The writing and acting were incredible. The story lines and characters were complex, layered, and felt real in a way that most of Star Wars never did. So much grittier and less glitzy. Rogue One was already my favorite SW movie. I’ve seen it several times, but now I need to watch it again with the new insights from Andor. And I’ll just say that Andor resonated especially deeply in regards to our present times.
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We’ve been enjoying the current season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The writers are having so much fun with it!
Agree Andor is fabulous and timely.
Season5 Episode 1 of Slow Horses dropped yesterday. Roddy Ho took a center stage for this season. By this season, all the Slow Horses have carried a lot of emotional baggage. It is one of the best thrillers on TV. We signed up for Apple TV for this show and it does not disappoint us.
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Still immersed in ER since April with five seasons to go and still loving it. I will probably start to slowplay at season 14 as it will be hard to let this one go. (Not as good as Sopranos but has grabbed me in the best way.)
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