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]

I finished watching The Kollective (which might be on Netflix, I honestly don't know) and really enjoyed it. It's about a group of freelance investigative journalists who "expose government corruption and lies through a dangerous investigation; uncovering rogue governments' illicit activities worldwide." Don't know if there will be a second series/season, but if there is, I will watch.

I also watched the first two seasons of Whitechapel, which is an older (2009) British police procedural in which detectives in London's Whitechapel district deal with murders which replicate historical crimes. The first series dealt with, of course, a Jack the Ripper copycat. The second series dealt with a Kray Brothers copycat. The first two series are very short, only 3 eps each, which is why I was able to get through them so quickly. A bit surprised I've only just heard/learned about this series, but it's a bit of fun. Kind of violent, bloody fun, but fun.

Watched this week's eps of Murderbot, Criminal Minds, and Welcome to Wrexham (which I'm guessing was probably also the season finale).

I am mostly looking forward to Wimbledon! I've booked the next two weeks off from work so I can just stay home and watch tennis all day. Don't tell me I don't know how to have fun!! I also want to check out the new Apple series, Smoke, of which the Guardian said "no TV show has been worth sticking with more" and gave 4 stars. Apparently the first couple of episodes have a few inconsistencies and bad characterization, but the reviewer guarantees those disappear and the rest is brilliant.

[yourlibrarian]

Kollective sounds very interesting. Watched Whitechapel some years ago and liked it, but mostly because of the working relationship between lead and sergeant. Agree that it must have been the season finale of Wrexham.