The British Mysteries – The Body-littered Countryside British mysteries. For years we’ve watched Saturday and Sunday evening airings of various crime and detective franchises. They range from Father Brown to Grantchester to Unforgotten. Most of them are murder mysteries and procedurals. Many of them take place in small English villages Continue Reading
Movies & TV
The Charm of the Grift: River City and Prof. Harold Hill
“The Music Man.” It opened on Broadway in 1957 and closed three years later after 1,375 performances. It won 5 Tony awards, including Best Musical, beating out “West Side Story” and “Most Happy Fella.” Its original cast album “won the first Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and spent Continue Reading
Thoughts on some video series: “Dark”
I’ve finished all three seasons. It’s a German Netflix series dubbed in English. The voice-dubbers have done a fine job, by the way. The series, in the end, folds in on itself, undoing what it has wrought from the beginning. The story is about time and the dire consequences of Continue Reading