Tag: Lu Corfield
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The Crow Girl, dark police procedural
The Crow Girl is a dark and mysterious British adaptation of a Swedish novel. Eve Myles, Dougray Scott, and Katherine Kelly star in this one. It starts off like a simple murder mystery but grows darker and more foul as the investigation expands. This review is of season one. Season two is filming now.
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Showtrial, high profile crime story from the BBC
Showtrial is partly police procedural and partly courtroom drama. In only 5 episodes, directed by Zara Hayes, we see the crime, the police work, and the trial. After it’s all done and done, we still aren’t sure the right person was convicted of the crime.
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Off on a Tangent about S5 of Last Tango in Halifax
Last Tango in Halifax season 5 came to me as a gift on my birthday. I don’t intend to review it or recap it, I simply want to talk about a few bits. It will be a little spoilery, but not in any large sense. A few scenes, and a few remarks, and I’ll be…