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TV Tuesday 2/24/26

The last edition of TV Tuesday ended with the line: “There’s more to report, but I’ve hit my word ceiling and will abruptly stop.” That was three weeks ago, so now there’s even more to report. (Baseball starts soon, and that will have a big impact on how many shows and movies I can watch.)

That last post focused on movies I’d seen. This time much of the focus in on a related pair of TV shows I finished watching. One is a French TV series about a female “Sherlock Holmes” who works as a police consultant. The other is its American adaptation.

I like the French original better. (No surprise there, right?)

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Movies: Acclaimed Trio

Secretary-0I never intended this blog to be a movie or TV review blog, but I’ve found myself posting about various films or TV shows I’ve really liked (or — in a few cases — really hated). I often get too lost in a story to see myself as a good reviewer or analyst (serious film critics often amaze me by what they pick up on), but storytelling is a favorite area of mine, and I do enjoy writing about it.

Hence forth, I plan to be more open to writing about movies and TV shows. I do enjoy sharing some of the little known gems I find, and — if nothing else — it’s nice to have a record of those and my reactions to them at the time. And (as always) I enjoy a good rant about the ones that pissed me off. I make no claim to being a particularly good critic; take any of these as just my 1/50th of a buck’s worth.

Today I want to share three critically acclaimed, utterly delightful, gems.

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