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]

This week I've watched a couple of true crime shows, one a 2-part documentary, the other a 4-part dramatization. Both were very good. The first one, the documentary, is called The Essex Millionaire Murders, and was about a UK case I'd never heard about, even though it happened fairly recently. The other was Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. You may recall that incident as it occurred in the weeks following the July 7 2005 bombings on the London tube and bus network. De Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian working as an electrician in London, boarded the tube at Stockwell station on the morning of 22 July 2005. Moments later, before the carriage doors could close, armed police sprinted on to the train and shot him seven times, point blank, in the head. De Menezes had been mistaken for a suicide bomber; he was entirely innocent of any crime. I think Suspect is on Disney+ -- highly recommend.

I also started the new series of Leverage: Redemption, and finished season 3 of Dark Winds.

And baseball and tennis.

As for shows I'm looking forward to, there are actually a few things coming up this month that I'm at least interested in checking out, if not exactly excited about. Another series of Criminal Minds: Evolution starts on May 8. Three shows hit on May 15: new seasons of Welcome to Wrexham and Love Death & Robots, and a new show called Duster that might have potential. Murderbot, of course, starts on the 16th, and then there are two shows dropping on May 29 that have caught my eye. One, Dept Q is the one I'm most interested in. It's an adaptation of the Jussi Adler-Olsen Department Q novels, but set in Edinburgh rather than Denmark. The other is called Adults, which "follows a group of young friends doing their best to become people, despite not really being “good” or “people” quite yet." Has a sort of modern-day "Friends" vibe, but I may not be the target audience, given that I am a few decades beyond my 20s. But I'll give it a look. Probably.

[yourlibrarian]

Good to hear Wrexham is on its way back. I will be traveling soon after it starts so it'll be good to have several episodes banked for when I return.