by mike | Mar 7, 2024 | Aging, Humor, Mysteries, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
Let’s hear it for the Old Guys! I first presented this post in 2020. While hanging out in the quarantine cave for most of this year, my bride and I have watched a lot of police procedural/detective shows on BritBox, Acorn, and PBS Masterpiece. They range in...
by mike | Nov 16, 2023 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
The Brokenwood Mysteries has just about everything you could want in a detective series. I first presented this post in 2020. Spending most of our time indoors these days, my bride and I have discovered a number of great shows from around the globe on some of the...
by mike | Nov 13, 2023 | Humor, Life, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
Actually, Bob isn’t my uncle. My three uncles’ names were Ben, Lou, and Hymie. But this isn’t about family. It is about a delightful, often-used expression across the pond in Great Britain. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Watching as many British detective shows as I do, and for...
by mike | Oct 2, 2023 | Disasters, Mysteries, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
If you’ve watched the 1977 Steven Spielberg classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (who hasn’t?), you might recall the opening sequence. Researchers are summoned to the Sonoran Desert in Mexico, where a group of old planes—Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, to...
by mike | Sep 25, 2023 | Movies, Mysteries, Mystery Films, Mystery Novels, Mystery Series, Read & Critique, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
My bride and I love murder mysteries and detective dramas, cozy and otherwise. We’ve watched just about every series and movie from a number of different countries, especially the UK. I know why this particular genre appeals to me. To be blunt: I suck at deduction. I...
by mike | Aug 28, 2023 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
My bride and I love detective shows from the UK, and Father Brown is one of our favorites. Starting in 2013, the series has run for ten seasons and over one hundred episodes. Series 10 premiered earlier this year, and we were pleased—maybe even ecstatic—to learn that...
