Speak Up Saturday 🌞

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

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New stuff watched:

1. The Game (mini series): this was a 4-part series about Detective Huw Miller, who is haunted by one case he failed to solve. As he settles into retirement, he suddenly thinks he has found the elusive killer in the shape of his new neighbour Patrick. While I quite enjoyed it, I will admit that I had a bit of difficulty with the Det. Miller character because he is played by Jason Watkins, who also portrays Dodds in the more comedic series McDonald and Dodds.

2. The Grand Seduction (2013 film): this is the English Canadian adaptation of the French Canadian film, La grande seduction, about a dying fishing outport community in Newfoundland that has a chance at revival if they can get a company to set up a new industry. The catch is, they need to have a full-time doctor in the community, which they don't have, so they set out a plan to seduce a Montreal-based plastic surgeon into becoming their doc. I watched this mostly because it has since been adapted for the stage as a musical, starring Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea fame (and he also did the music), and it's going to be playing in Toronto this fall. I am debating getting tickets, and while I knew the basic plot of the film, I still wanted to actually see it. It's probably not as good as the Québécois original (which by some accounts is one of the best films ever), but still entertaining. I think it's on Neflix.

3. The Trial: I don't know if this even counts as a miniseries -- it consists of a single episode! And the episode is only 44 minutes long, so you can't really call it a film either? Anyway, it's set about 10 years in the future, in the UK, which has passed a law by which parents are held legally responsible for the crimes committed by their children. The drama shows teenager Teah on trial for a serious crime, putting her parents Dione and David Sinclair in the centre of a distressing legal battle against the Office of Judicial Inquisition, a powerful new division of the Ministry of Justice.

Started watching:

Code of Silence: another British mini series (I think -- can't see that there would be other seasons) about a deaf woman who works for the police, but in the canteen, not as a police officer, who is called upon to assist in an investigation by lip reading from surveillance tapes (because all their regular lip readers are unavailable). She is told to not google anything about the case, which she does of course, and we know no good can come from that because it's one of those shows that sort of starts with the end -- our plucky heroine covered in blood sitting in the back of a cop car -- and then does one of those "several days earlier" things and jumps to the beginning to reveal how we get to that point. Only one ep watched, but it looks pretty good.

Criminal Minds Evolution (season 3) - which sort of continues from the previous season.

Continued watching:

Murderbot!
Leverage Redemption
Landscape Artist of the Year (season finale)
FBI (season finale)
Curse of Oak Island (season finale)
And baseball and tennis (Hamburg Open)

As for what I am looking forward to, well, the French Open starts this week (tomorrow in fact), so am looking forward to -- can't say watching as I will be at work and not able to see most of the matches -- but at least following the results and watching when I can. In terms of non-sports, the new adaptation of the Jussi Adler Olsen Department Q novels, Dept Q, starts on Netflix this week.