It’s the Scandi equivalent of Midsommer Murders: an improbably high murder rate in a very small, tranquil setting.
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That’s as may be - but Midsomer Murders is crap: it doesn’t have Alexandra Rapaport.
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I’m trying to work out why all the episodes are in summer.
Having watched a few Scandi shows (plus Finnish) recently, it’s always gloomy and the weather’s awful.
PS not really trying to work it out.
Not disagreeing with you. Does make a change from the usual Scandi stuff. Also, the bad things only seem to happen during summer time.
That’s far from the only reason it’s crap.
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There’s a good doco on the Stasi on SBS. Some of the Stasi operatives were cold bastards.
Anna Funder, the Oz writer who wrote Stasiland, was interviewed.
A new series on SBS - Sambre
It’s a 6-part French series set on the (fictional) river Sambre.
A rapist attacks women as they’re on their way to work, starting in 1988. The first victim and her husband handle it very differently - marriage dissolves.
Subsequent episodes (I’m up to 3) actions at different periods after the first rape. The mayor, very much one of the people, has a press conference with one of the victims which puts egg on her face. Victims don’t want to publicise it. She’s making the local area unpopular for investors etc.
May be worth a look if you’re interested in how the French justice system works and how victims are affected.
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Hundred Years of Solitude starts Wednesday on Netflix (I think).
I have heard it called unfilmable, so let’s see.
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