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Americans never have realized that the murder mystery show is the only thing that has kept European TV going for all these years. (It's a good way to psychoanalyze the poo poo out of your own complacent but still somehow inadequate society.) If you want to really get into it, try the Swedish ones. A deep deconstruction of the welfare state combined with amazing skill for good filmography is really the best thing, everyone should be watching Beck movies.
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Isn't that the show about the small town that has tons of murders happening constantly?
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May 15, 2016 03:17
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Naxuz posted:Americans never have realized that the murder mystery show is the only thing that has kept European TV going for all these years. (It's a good way to psychoanalyze the poo poo out of your own complacent but still somehow inadequate society.) If you want to really get into it, try the Swedish ones. A deep deconstruction of the welfare state combined with amazing skill for good filmography is really the best thing, everyone should be watching Beck movies. I read somewhere that Germany has one of the largest TV fiction industries in the world but that might've been old news. A lot of German crime shows aren't murder mysteries but police procedurals though.
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May 15, 2016 03:18
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My wife listens to Murder, She Wrote with a little bluetooth earbud every night while going to sleep. Every night. For 9 years.
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May 15, 2016 03:18
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Naxuz posted:Swedish Also that one constantly coked-up actor is in every one of them in some role.
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May 15, 2016 03:20
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Naxuz posted:Americans never have realized that the murder mystery show is the only thing that has kept European TV going for all these years. (It's a good way to psychoanalyze the poo poo out of your own complacent but still somehow inadequate society.) If you want to really get into it, try the Swedish ones. A deep deconstruction of the welfare state combined with amazing skill for good filmography is really the best thing, everyone should be watching Beck movies.
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May 15, 2016 03:22
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It's weird because here if a popular American show is on TV on a commercial channel, one of the state-run channels usually buys the rights and airs the original European/Asian/whatever show which is always better (and doesn't have commercial breaks obviously).
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May 15, 2016 03:24
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I also like the Danish version of The Killing though I only saw the first season. I understand the later seasons did 10 episodes instead of 20 which was probably a good move. As good as the first season was there were too many fakeouts and cliffhangers.
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May 15, 2016 03:27
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Goddamn, I grew up on this show. Between this, Magnum P.I, and Columbo I was set.
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May 15, 2016 04:24
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I watched two episodes tonight. It's such a good show, so much better than Columbo, and I'm not even saying that ironically.
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May 15, 2016 04:52
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OctoberBlues posted:I watched two episodes tonight. It's such a good show, so much better than Columbo, and I'm not even saying that ironically. Just one more thing, sir. Do you think the show gets better or worse when it moves to NYC?
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May 15, 2016 05:11
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Kilo147 posted:Just one more thing, sir. I don't even remember those episodes?! Apparently it caused the ratings to go up, were they actually good??
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May 15, 2016 05:15
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Jerry Cotton posted:Speaking of childhood, this was of course the ultimate detective TV show: I agree. It's really good, which is even more surprising considering how crap most of the popular culture was in post-war Germany. (I mean, Peter loving Kraus was considered the German Elvis, for crying out loud!).
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May 15, 2016 13:25
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I love MSW--I love gentle murder mysteries and this one reminds me of being a little kid and those pleasant evenings when I'd watch TV at my Nana's house. I also remember watching Father Dowling, but I never hear anything about that one anymore--was it actually any good?
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May 15, 2016 13:49
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Nessa posted:Agreed. I mostly enjoy the earlier Poirot when they still had Hastings and Miss Lemon. Yeah Hastings and Lemon were great and allowed for some of the more subtly hilarious scenes. To be fair to the series, Lemon was in very few of the books iirc and they made her character much better in the show. Hastings also disappeared eventually because Christie started to hate Poirot and took his friends away. I'm reading Black Coffee right now, it's too bad they didn't include it in the series early on. To be honest, they should have done as many episodes as they could early on, because the last 5 seasons are so over-the-top stylized and melodramatic that they lost all the charm of the early episodes, which were fantastic 
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May 15, 2016 14:03
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I love murder she wrote my favourite thing is seeing at least half the cast of star trek voyager and ds9 acting in it looking all 90s
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May 15, 2016 15:41
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Yeah MSW was even better than L&O for low level actor appearances Poirot had Michael Fassbender and Brody from Homeland, as well as the bald Dr Who
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May 15, 2016 18:24
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Ibogaine posted:I agree. It's really good, which is even more surprising considering how crap most of the popular culture was in post-war Germany. (I mean, Peter loving Kraus was considered the German Elvis, for crying out loud!). Well better Peter Kraus than Rock-Jerry or Little Gerhard.
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