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[emason]

The Murderbot books are wonderful, the series not so much. I find it a huge disappointment.

 

[Skate Talker]

"Patience" has been a wonderful surprise and a good mystery series on PBS. It is set in York and involves a group of detectives and a young woman who is autistic who works in their records department and has a talent for puzzles and pulling details together.

"Patience" is an English version of the French series "Astrid" aka "Astrid et Raphaelle". My PBS station has shown 3 seasons of "Astrid" (French with English subtitles), and is now showing the first season of "Patience". I'm 3 episodes in and so far I find the French version to be superior but maybe the English one will grow on me more.

 

[Cachoo]

"Patience" is an English version of the French series "Astrid" aka "Astrid et Raphaelle". My PBS station has shown 3 seasons of "Astrid" (French with English subtitles), and is now showing the first season of "Patience". I'm 3 episodes in and so far I find the French version to be superior but maybe the English one will grow on me more.

Well I will look for Astrid. Thanks for the info.

 

[clairecloutier]

Online PBS has all 5 seasons of Astrid now. We've enjoyed it quite a bit.

 

[Cachoo]

Online PBS has all 5 seasons of Astrid now. We've enjoyed it quite a bit.

I'm not sure why people are put off by another language. I think about all of the versions of "The Bridge" and I still prefer the orginal although "The Tunnel" was good.

 

[Cachoo]

I like when I land on something I know absolutely nothing about and find it to be a wonderful surprise. I saw "Bafta nominated" and a police procedural called "The Offence" on Britbox and ended up binging the first season over the long weekend. I love the three female leads and thought the series was well paced.

I happen to be watching "Life on Mars" as well and to see a male dominated police procedural set in the 70's juxtaposed against this modern police procedural is interesting. A lot has changed.

 

[vgerdes]

I'm not sure why people are put off by another language. I think about all of the versions of "The Bridge" and I still prefer the orginal although "The Tunnel" was good.

If you can't speak the language, subtitles only do so much. They don't catch all the nuances, y'know? But there are several shows/movies in other languages that I've enjoyed despite that.