by mike | Apr 28, 2025 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
The BritBox original series, McDonald and Dodds—a British crime drama whose setting is the historic city of Bath—ran for four seasons. There will not be a fifth. And that’s a bummer. To begin with, four seasons may sound significant, but they were only comprised of...
by mike | Nov 23, 2020 | Aging, Humor, Mysteries, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
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 Prime. They range in presentation from intense (Broadchurch, Mystery Road, Prime Suspect) to outrageously...
by mike | Jul 20, 2020 | Aging, Mystery Films, Mystery Novels, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
She’s old; she’s short; she’s disheveled; she’s irascible. She’s also brilliant. She’s Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, head of the Major Crimes unit of England’s (fictional) Northumberland & City Police. DCI Stanhope is the main protagonist in a...
by mike | Nov 11, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Humor, Mystery Films, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless is best known for her iconic, kick-butt role as Xena: Warrior Princess, in a syndicated television series that ran for 134 episodes from the late 1990s through 2001. She has hardly lacked for work since then, with numerous film and TV...
