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Monday, February 20. 2017

TV series recommendation: Shetland


It's streamable or whatever via Amazon. Detective series, based in Shetland Islands. It's called "Shetland."


Mrs. BD and a daughter say that the protagonist, Jimmy Perez, is their dream male. They both binge-watched it on their laptops, and I am certain now that I must be inadequate by comparison. Bummer.




Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:18 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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It's on NetFlix too, in Canada at least.
#1 Fred Z on 2017-02-20 22:21 (Reply)
The Missing season 2
#2 Jake on 2017-02-20 23:05 (Reply)
There are only about 8 episodes but we've managed to watch it through twice. It's very dark, literally and figuratively. We've noticed that the farther north European TV shows are set the darker they are. Wallander is another example.
#3 FRP on 2017-02-21 07:03 (Reply)
I agree with your wife and daughter. Jimmy Perez is lovely. It is a fabulous show.
#4 missred on 2017-02-21 07:06 (Reply)
Love this series. Hope it continues for a while. To me the background music is very soothing while watching the story unfold. I can only order the disks, not streaming on Netflix so would like to know how they have streamed it.
#5 JC on 2017-02-21 07:41 (Reply)
There is a mystery genre called "Nordic Crime". I have become addicted and think perhaps in this case "Nordic" might include "Shetland"!
#6 another one on 2017-02-21 09:19 (Reply)
Mrs feeblemind loves the murder shows.

We are currently watching Ripper St. on the Netflix, set in the London slums in the 1880s and 1890s.

Before that it was Coppers, a similar show set in NYC in the 1860s.

Seems like we have seen 'em all. Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse, Poirot, Wallender, Miss Fischer, Miss Marple, Sherlock, Cadfael, and likely several more that I just can't recall at the moment.

I am sure we will have to check Shetland out.
#7 feeblemind on 2017-02-21 10:08 (Reply)
Hinterland is good also. I think it's also on Netflix.
Acorn.tv has mostly UK shows. About $5 a month.
#8 Terry on 2017-02-21 13:38 (Reply)
Hinterland is very good, as is Shetland. The former is interesting because it's actually a Welsh-/English-language production.

We lived in London, UK for several years before returning to Canada in 2007. During that time we built up a large library of Region 2 DVDs so we have a multi-region player here. This allows us to order Region 2 DVDs from Amazon UK and France.

It means we keep an eye out for when shows go to DVD in Europe and then order the ones we want (for example, I gave my wife Victoria Season One for Christmas and we used to get Downton Abbey every November-January).

There are a lot of good British "police procedurals" out there: Vera, George Gently, Inspector Lewis inter alia.

Someone mentioned "Nordic crime" so I recommend a visit to this site www.nordicnoir.tv for a look at other British and European series.
#8.1 JJM on 2017-02-21 14:55 (Reply)
Thanks for the tip. Watched one episode with the wife and we're in for the rest. Learning to understand British Isles English is fun, too.
#9 Frisco Scooter Trash on 2017-02-21 18:51 (Reply)

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