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Originally Posted by CRussel
Well, one you might not have tried that surprised me was a made for Amazon one - Mozart in the Jungle. I didn't expect much, was going to give it a bye, and was quite pleasantly surprised. And Bosch, of course, is all I could have hoped for. I'm parsing it out slowly to make it last.
OTOH, there's enough stuff on Acorn to keep me in TV for the next two years. Still 4 years of Pie in the Sky I haven't seen, but sadly, I've only got a single episode of Sarrangoon Road to go. And apparently they're not going to do a second season.  |
Hi:
Hadn't tried Mozart, but I'm definitely with you, 100% on Bosch. Excellent. Gives me hope for MFA (Made for Amazon).
On Acorn--I admit it, in "cozy" category, I have watched all of PITS, and I've even started to rewatch it. I have an oddball viewing body clock--late at night, my taste veers to cozies of any type (Murder in Paradise, Agathas of all sizes/shapes, Midsomer Murders, et al). I also liked Murder in Suburbia more than I'd expected, probably due to Caroline Catz/Katz (sp?). I loved her in Doc whoosie-whatsis (typical Fish out of water story). I met "Murdoch" (the Canadian version) there, and found it very enjoyable
I, too, was really bummed about Serangoon not having a 2nd season. I think that's partly because the female love interest was so grossly miscast, but I could have happily watched a few years of that. Beware the dreadful "Jamaica Inn" one, though...ye gods. Somewhere, Daphne is rolling in her grave.
They have a lot of humor that doesn't really do for me (I am still gobsmacked that one of their staff picks was Black Books--I forced myself to sit through a second episode, to see if I simply hadn't given it enough time to catch with me), but the mysteries are really fun. (Oh, and that one with the family in Africa...lord. I tried, I did. 3-4 episodes, and decided I'd have fed that youngest brat to some predator myself. Couldn't make myself watch any more of them. I guess family shows just aren't my bag.)
if you haven't tried the Flower chicks--Rosemary and Thyme--utterly silly and fun Cozie stuff. Was sorry it was cancelled, and it was a visual feast in each epi.
Now you've got me all off on cozies, my brain can't pull up some of the edgier stuff that they have...Oh, I liked Jack Irish, from OZ. And something Taylor, an Irish import. Lovely.
Oh! Hulu has the odd show that I like here and there, that you can't find anywhere else. I really HATE paying them, as they have commercials that you can't even speed through, but OTOH, I can watch two years of Hulu (and thus, all seasons of New Tricks) for less than I can buy aforementioned New Tricks on Amazon. There was one...Endgame, a Canadian show, with an agoraphobic Chess Master solving mysteries in a 5-star hotel. Silly, but fun.
Hitch