Watching International crime/mystery shows

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I would like to put down my thoughts/reviews of the International crime/mystery genre episodes I watch. Would love to hear any/all who also enjoy this genre to put down theirs.

I'll start out with this one I watched!

MASTERPIECE Mystery! on PBS.

Prime Suspect: Tennison, Episode 1


The year is 1973 and Jane Tennison (the beautiful Stefanie Martini) 22 (she is still living with her parents) is starting her job as a rookie at a Hackney police station, a really rough part of town. She has to tackle the on-the-job sexism while trying to prove her worth. She makes the mistake of getting too close to her male supervisor, DI Len Bradfield (Sam Reid). She is thrust into her first case which turns out to be the murder of a 17-year-old prostitute. In the by-line story there is the crime-family leader (Alun Armstrong) latest plot.

This looks like my 'cup of tea' in this prequel that has that ambience I really enjoy. Looking forward to more!

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BBC America

Broadchurch Season 3 Episode 1


We start out 3 years after the Latimers case. We are introduced to detectives Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) investigating the brutal rape of Trish Winterman (Julie Hesmondhalgh). Trish is reporting every step that she can remember (actually she really gives no clues) to a more gentle and thoughtful Hardy and Miller.
Supposedly this happened on Saturday at her friend Cath Atwood's (Sarah Parish) party but she does not report this until the following Tuesday because of shame and shock.
We see glimpses of would be suspects, Hardy staring down a cab driver outside Trish's house who he thinks looks suspicious. Jim (Mark Bazeley) the husband of Cath, who we are shown has the same brand of condom in his car glove compartment as the one found at the crime scene and the mystery has started...

This was an excellent first episode and if they are all like this, WOW! It has all my 'cup of tea' ingredients: mystery, outdoor shots, etc.

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Sidetracked



Kurt Wallander is a Swedish detective in Ystad and is called to inspect a young girl on a farm in a beautiful field of yellow flowers. As he approaches the girl she douses herself with petrol & sets herself on fire. This leads Kurt to the vicious murder of a government minister. Is there an underlining connection to corruption in the Swedish govt...

Firewall




We see in the opening, two teenage girls walking away from a cab with blood from a knife dripping to the ground. They are arrested for the murder of the cab driver. A body is found near a cash point from an apparent heart attack. Are these two connected and does it involve crimes beyond Sweden...

Wallander - Kenneth Branagh - Nostalgia - YouTube

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Nostalgia - YouTube

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PBS

The Tunnel Season 2: Sabotage Episode 2

Commander Elise Wassermann (Clémence Poésy) and DCI Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane) continue to work on the case of a French couple the Fournier's who were abducted from the Eurotunnel. In the previous episode... Days later a passenger plane crashes into the Channel. The plane’s black box shows a possible different outcome, while Elise and Karl are on the hunt for the Fournier's abductor(s), the mystery is on...



MASTERPIECE Mystery! on PBS.

Christmas Special 2016

It is Christmas time and vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton) is waiting to marry a couple, however the groom fails to show up. Detective Inspector Geordie Keating ( Robson Green) and Sidney find the groom murdered and the twist is on.

Amanda Hopkins (Morven Christie) is close to giving birth, unfortunately her father will not accept her at home so she eventually is back at the church alone. Mrs. Maguire (Tessa Peake-Jones) ends up having to deliver Amanda's baby & thankfully they grow closer and...

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), has been duped by the court over an expose that Blomkvist published in Millennium magazine about the wealthy industrialist Wennerström (Stefan Sauk). Wennerström sued and won, and the Swedish court has imposed a fine and a three-month prison term.

Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), the 82-year-old head of the Vanger Group, an industrial conglomerate asks Blomkvist to use the months before he must report to prison to investigate a 40-year-old murder: that of Vanger’s favorite niece, Harriet.

Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) works as a researcher (aka a real great hacker) for Milton Security and is asked by Vanger's attorney to check out Blomkvist before he can look into the murder of Harriet and then...

This is an excellent, well-paced thriller that meets all my 'cup of tea' criteria!

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The Girl Who Played with Fire


Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is back as an investigative journalist and he is trying to find out the names/details of important men that are involved in sex trafficking women between Russia and Sweden.

Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is back in Stockholm and finds herself on the trail of a killer. She also finds people from her past that comes into play and...

A extremely taut thriller that keeps you so very interested through the very end!

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest


We find Lizbeth trying to heal over her wounds in the hospital as a case is fabricated against her for 3 murders. Her huge half-brother, Niedermann (Mikael Spreitz), is still out there and hates Lizbeth.

We have the psychologist Dr. Peter Teleborian (Anders Ahlbom) who made-up her incarceration in an asylum, that will get what he deserves through the court appearance. Mikael is still Lizbeth's #1 friend along with her friend Plague (Thomas Köhler), they both are really in her corner and...

This is one of my favs and is an exciting, thrilling and interesting story, my 'cup of tea'!

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MASTERPIECE Mystery! on PBS.

Prime Suspect: Tennison, Episode 2

Tennison and Bradfield are still on the case of the murdered young girl. There is a difference of opinion on how an arrest is made. Will Tennison have to be "one of the boys" in her office? The Bentley's are still up to no good.

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You should also watch The Loch which is currently airing on terrestrial TV in the UK

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BBC America

Broadchurch Season 3 Episode 2

We have many suspicious characters that could have committed the sexual assault crime, such as Trish’s estranged husband Ian Winterman (Charlie Higson), mechanic Jim Atwood (Mark Bazeley) and dodgy cabbie Clive Lucas (Sebastian Armesto). Ian refused to give a DNA test and we see him cleaning his clothes and muddy shoes, what's up with that? Trish admits she had sex with a stranger that same Saturday morning of said assault, whoa! And the mystery thickens...to our delight!!

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Tornerose - Sleeping Beauty

Varg Veum private investigator is hired by a wealthy couple to find their 17-year-old daughter Lisa. He finds her as a prostitute in Copenhagen and brings her back to Norway. The neighbors asked Varg to find their son, Peter, a close friend to Lisa and the chaos begins...



Bitre Blomster - Bitter Flowers

Varg Veum private detective is hired by a female politician. She wants him to find her missing daughter with no publicity and not attracting too much attention. Also Varg finds her lover murdered.There is a mixture of corruption, murder and blackmail involved in a international company and the thriller is on....

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Originally Posted by Blu Lemmy

You should also watch The Loch which is currently airing on terrestrial TV in the UK

I would love to watch it, however I do not see it available anywhere in the US (where I live) as of now.

Looks like it has some of my 'cup of tea' criteria with that beautiful country look!

Loch Ness hd
1 Series (6 Episodes)
On the beautiful, haunting shores of Scotland’s iconic Loch Ness, amid a community sustained by myth and bordered by untamed nature, the search for the truth becomes a matter of life and death in this gripping murder mystery.

https://itvstudios.com/programmes/loch-ness

The Loch (TV series)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Loch
Also known as Loch Ness
Genre Crime drama

The Loch (also known as Loch Ness) is a six-part British television drama series, created by screenwriter Stephen Brady, that first broadcast on ITV on 11 June 2017.[1] The series follows small town policewoman Annie Redford (Laura Fraser), as she investigates the murder of piano teacher Niall Swift, who is found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the picturesque village of Lochnafoy, Loch Ness. When it becomes apparent that part of Swift's brain has been removed, and a human heart belonging to another victim is found close by, Annie's team realise they are searching for a serial killer, and major investigation detective DCI Lauren Quigley (Siobhan Finneran) is brought in to lead the enquiry.[2]
Supporting cast includes Don Gilet as psychological profiler Blake Albrighton, John Sessions as Annie's boss DCI Frank Smilie, Gray O'Brien as Alan Redford, Annie's husband, and William Ash as local tourist operator Leighton Thomas. The series was filmed in the summer of 2016 and was shown in full in the Netherlands and Australia before its British broadcast. The Netherlands also released the series on DVD in May 2017, a month before the series premiered in the UK.[3] In both countries, the series was aired under its original title of Loch Ness.
The series is set for release on DVD in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2017.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loch_(TV_series)

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To Burn In Every Drop of Blood

There is a murder victim that is found in the woods and DCI Banks and his team are wondering if it is related to a shrine of a young girl that committed suicide.

Banks hopes to find a link to a local crime boss Steve Richards, who he has tried to convict from a previous case. Another body is found in the woods and...





The Village That Rose from the Dead

DCI Barnaby and his new sergeant DS Jamie Winter are investigating the murder of a man where the Little Auburn village is celebrating the re-opening to the public of their village that has not been occupied since WWII.

Finn Thornberry is crushed by a tank and Barnaby must tread through all kinds of deceit and lies to find the killer and...

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Broadchurch S3 E3

The man who owned the party Arthur Tamworth (Richard Hope) is another potential suspect. He told Hardy & Miller that he hung around the waterfall (crime scene) as a child. Ian Winterman ( Charlie Higson) admits that he had drunk so much tequila that he blacked out, guess where, down by the lake (crime scene) again.

Howabout Michael Lucas (Deon Lee-Williams) the stepson of the sketchy cabbie Clive Lucas or Tom Miller’s porn-watching pal (they were both caught and disciplined to picking up trash at the church and once finished on the way home were watching said porn, oh my). Could they be acting out what they saw on-line?

Trish still does not want to tell Hardy & Miller who she slept with on the day of the attack.

On the side we have the Latimers, especially Mark dealing with their son's (Danny) death. Mark still wants to go after Joe Miller.

There are so many suspects and twists & turns that keeps us so riveted. This is an excellent series, love it!