Speak Up Saturday

[feurioo]

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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[jo]

Over the past couple of weeks, I started and finished three series. They were The Breakthrough, Patience, and The Crow Girl. The Breakthrough is a Netflix limited series docudrama about Sweden's second most famous murder investigation, which took the cops like, 20 years to finally solve, but at least they solved it, which can't be said for Sweden's most famous murder case. Patience is an odd-couple detective procedural, where the partners are an actual detective and a young autistic civilian worker employed as a cataloguer of police evidence. It was... probably better if not binged. On the plus side, the actor playing Patience, the autistic character is actually autistic, but the plots were somewhat ludicrous (each episode was a different case), and it's the same old same old plot line of the brilliant/eccentric/neurodivergent outsider who solves all the cases for them. You start to wonder why police departments don't just do away with actual detectives and instead hire a bunch of eccentric geniuses and save actual cops for just the grunt work. The Crow Girl is another police procedural, and much better than Patience. I thought it was going to be a limited series, but NO! Cliffhanger ending so more to come.

I also continued to watched, and in some cases, finish, series previously started (some last fall). That list includes the season 7 finale of Outlander, which was great and threw in a real twist that was NOT in the books, but apparently an idea batted around by the author of the books. I also finished (just last night) season 3 of The Traitors UK, which I loved -- especially all the new twists they introduced to keep the format fresh. Also continued with Dexter Original Sin, Will Trent, Curse of Oak Island, The Pitt, Silent Witness, and Hacks.

I also started watching, but have not finished the following new shows/seasons of shows: On Call, a police drama on Prime -- which I am enjoying and like that the episodes are only about 30 minutes rather than a full hour; season 2 of Black Snow, an Australian police procedural; and season 2 of Severance, but don't tell my husband about that one! We'd decided to wait until it was all available, or mostly all available before starting to watch, but I just couldn't resist. Plus I was worried about encountering spoilers online. So I've been watching each new episode (only 2 thus far) early in the morning on the weekend when he's still in bed. It will be fine -- I always miss details the first time through so it will probably help me pick up on things when I do finally watch it with him.

I also tried to watch some Australian Open tennis when I could, but due to time zones, that wasn't a lot.

As for what I'm looking forward to... well, I don't want to start anything new until I've finished at least Black Snow and possibly On Call. However, there is the new season of The Night Agent -- season 1 was really fun and the reviews for season 2 are equally good. Also, the Star Trek Section 31 movie is available. Reviews are pretty bad, but I'll likely watch it anyway, because Star Trek and Michelle Yeoh. Season 4 of Mythic Quest starts this week as well...

[yourlibrarian]

You start to wonder why police departments don't just do away with actual detectives and instead hire a bunch of eccentric geniuses and save actual cops for just the grunt work.

Heh! I just started an episode of Astrid which is very much in this vein and I'm not sure I'll continue with it.

I plan to watch Mythic when I get Apple+ back, and will be watching Section 31 possibly this weekend.

[scintilla10]

Haven't seen the newest Traitors UK season yet! Excited to hear there are some new twists.

[jo]

I have no idea if the UK one ends up on anything available in Canada so I just torrented as it aired in the UK. I would have been too at risk for spoilers otherwise because so many people I follow on Bluesky watch it. The torrents were usually available about 30-40 minutes after the broadcast had ended in the UK.