Articles Tagged with #britain
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My Contemporary British TV Detectives
For the Love of Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch—the man sounds like his own classification of mania. “But I can’t go outside, darling, Sherlock’s on, my cumberbatch is acting up...
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My Contemporary British TV Detectives
…And Live by the Sidekick’s Law
Trustworthy: The genius detective must have faith in your silence, your belief in his brains, your wakefulness during stakeouts, and your way with a handgun, should he want one used...
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My Contemporary British TV Detectives
Quick and Energetic, but Conventional
Detective Chief Inspector James Harold Japp, portrayed by Philip Jackson in the long-running Poirot series, is my favorite. He goes into every new adventure believing he’ll finally one-up...
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My Contemporary British TV Detectives
Morse Mode
The long-running Morse series was good. Sometimes great. Thaw (1942-2002) carried Morse’s hunched shoulders with a lot of style, and the episodes, based on Colin Dexter’s...
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My Contemporary British Detectives
Luther, Light and Dark
Shame that Luther has such shitty cover art in Netflix. For two years, I passed it over, because even Idris Elba couldn’t make me watch a British remake...
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My Contemporary British TV Detectives
Gently Does It
Many other things we do extremely well in this golden age of the small screen. Novelists with epaulets are signing up to bang out series. David Foster Wallace thought...