07-26-2021, 04:15 AM
The jobs are only stolen...
It's a joke, son, a joke.
It's been a long standing joke I started in response to the various outsourcing/buy American posts over the years.
I can't remember the one with Kenneth Branaugh that was swedish.
That was Wallander, and I quite liked it.
Another was Cardinal, a Canadian police procedural with Billy Campbell (this no longer being about stolen US jobs).
There were also multiple versions of The Bridge and The Tunnel that were really good.
I am a big fan of Shetland, though in the season before last I believe, the writers fell into a US trope of having a female cop-protagonist raped, which bothers me on more than one level.
The accent didn't bother me at all, but the recording did.
Play a scene over and over and louder and louder trying to make it intelligible, and when viewing the subtitles, it's 'HTF did they get that out of that!'.
Anyway, my main complaint is that some of these dramas, both foreign and domestic, get really dark, and I need to cleanse my palette with some lighter fare.
But sometimes a series is just too compelling.
Baptiste, with Tchéky Karyo is one of those, a spinoff of the excellent The Missing.
It's a joke, son, a joke.
It's been a long standing joke I started in response to the various outsourcing/buy American posts over the years.
I can't remember the one with Kenneth Branaugh that was swedish.
That was Wallander, and I quite liked it.
Another was Cardinal, a Canadian police procedural with Billy Campbell (this no longer being about stolen US jobs).
There were also multiple versions of The Bridge and The Tunnel that were really good.
I am a big fan of Shetland, though in the season before last I believe, the writers fell into a US trope of having a female cop-protagonist raped, which bothers me on more than one level.
The accent didn't bother me at all, but the recording did.
Play a scene over and over and louder and louder trying to make it intelligible, and when viewing the subtitles, it's 'HTF did they get that out of that!'.
Anyway, my main complaint is that some of these dramas, both foreign and domestic, get really dark, and I need to cleanse my palette with some lighter fare.
But sometimes a series is just too compelling.
Baptiste, with Tchéky Karyo is one of those, a spinoff of the excellent The Missing.