The Week in Entertainment
Film: The Secrets in Their Eyes, a very fine Argentine film - cop/mystery/political thriller full of time shifts and splendid acting, especially from Ricardo Darín.
DVD: Rosemary & Thyme, a very enjoyable light mystery series from Granada, with excellent acting and gorgeous settings.
TV: Not much ... waiting for the summer series to start on cable. Which is why I got through three seasons of Rosemary & Thyme!
Read: All six Charlie Chan novels, and Call Mr Fortune. On kind of a vintage mystery kick - Anna Katherine Green next, having started The Leavenworth Case.
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At 11:55 PM, June 01, 2010
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 5:59 AM, June 02, 2010
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I've seen all the R&T series on PBS, and I, too, liked them fine. Only, they become a bit repetitious after a few. Basically, Rosemary and Laura go to some incredible mansion, just the two of them hired to landscape the entire hundreds-of-acres estate. Soon after they get there, someone gets murdered, then another.
One would think they'd develop a complex, wondering why they seem to bring multiple murder with them wherever they go.
Oh, be fair. Almost all the time they were there to handle one specific garden, not hundreds of acres.
But as for repetitious: of course. That's the genre. If you don't like the genre, or you can't accept its conventions, you won't like R&T either.
And as for being harbingers of death, again, all amateur sleuths in cozies run into enormous quantities of dead people (if they're in a series, at least). In the real world, people would have fled at the very sight of Jessica Fletcher.
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