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Series · Acorn TV · 2014

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The Brokenwood Mysteries

66Worth an evening.

A small town, a patient cop, and neighbors who are not extras. A decent evening, then the talk.

The review

Mike Shepherd wanted a quieter life and got a community instead, which is the better bargain. The cases are the hook. The thing worth keeping is the scale: a vineyard, a club, a church hall, people whose names recur. A republic starts at that size. A story that remembers it is already ahead of most crime television.

It will not raise a child by itself, and some hours are only clever. Watch it when you want a mystery that still believes a neighbor is a real person. Then learn one fact about your own street that you have been content to guess.

Journal

Keep The Brokenwood Mysteries in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Adolescence

78 instead of 66

Adolescence is still a crime show, and it scores 78 instead of 66. What you gain is household: The whole measure is a household that loved a child and did not know him.

The eight

7
Industry
Police work is shown as interviews and shoe leather, not as a brand.
6
Household
Home is the town more than a marriage. People still cook and bury their own.
5
Piety
The dead are treated with some respect. A creed is mostly implied.
6
Courage
He takes an unglamorous post and does not perform it.
8
Republic
Brokenwood is small enough that a lie has to survive the person next door.
7
Temperance
The murders are puzzles. They are not a lesson in cruelty.
8
Truth
The pleasure of it is a fact coming out in a place where gossip got there first.
6
Stewardship
A town that solves its dead is a town that still thinks the living owe each other something.

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Dalgliesh

68Worth an evening.

A serious man after the truth. Not for children. Worth an adult evening if you can bear the case.

The review

P. D. James wrote a detective who is also a man in mourning, and this series keeps that. Adam Dalgliesh does not enjoy the corpse. He wants the sentence that makes the death intelligible, and he will not take a prettier one. That is truth as a vocation, which the standard recognizes even in a murder story.

Do not put it on for children. The cases are ugly, and ugliness is not a virtue. For an adult who has started to think every institution is only a costume, it is a useful counter: a public servant who still believes a fact can be established and ought to be. Watch one case. Then tell a truth you have been softening.

Journal

Keep Dalgliesh in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Adolescence

78 instead of 68

Adolescence is still a crime show, and it scores 78 instead of 68. What you gain is household: The whole measure is a household that loved a child and did not know him.

The eight

8
Industry
Detection is treated as a craft: interviews, records, the patience to be wrong once.
4
Household
He is a widower. The household is a grief, not a table with people at it.
6
Piety
A poet's attention to the soul. No creed is required, and none is mocked.
7
Courage
He walks into rooms that do not want him and stays until the account is finished.
7
Republic
The law is the job. A title does not put a suspect above it.
7
Temperance
The violence is the crime, not the invitation. Still too grim for a family night.
9
Truth
The whole measure of the man is whether he will say the true thing when it indicts a respectable house.
6
Stewardship
What he protects is the next person the killer would have reached.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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The Brokenwood Mysteries

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Adolescence

Dalgliesh

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Adolescence

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