TV Shows...What are you following?

[FionaFortune]

Two posts on something called 'Mindhunter' but no description of what it is, let alone an opinion.

It's a Netflix series about FBI agents who start psychological profiles of real serial killers. The show is about the psychology of killers and how it effects the agent lives.

[Stavros]

It's a Netflix series about FBI agents who start psychological profiles of real serial killers. The show is about the psychology of killers and how it effects the agent lives.

Thanks for this. I don't subscribe to Netflix or any other platform. I guess Hannibal Lecter is making a comeback...in one way or another. Are the FBI on his tale?

[MrFanti]

It's a Netflix series about FBI agents who start psychological profiles of real serial killers. The show is about the psychology of killers and how it effects the agent lives.

What I like about the show is the use of some of the real life criminals and not some made-up characters....

[Stavros]

Away (Andrew Hinderaker, 2020)

Away with the fairies would probably be more exciting than this 'by the numbers' space tedium. Tick the boxes: earnest American, cynical Russian, humourless Chinese, nerdy Indian, Black-Jewish Englishman with an accent so polished it would rival the diamonds on the late Queen Elizabeth's crowns- plus the inevitable moment in the space walk when it all goes wrong, and the hammer floats off into eternity, never to be seen again. Where this series belongs.

[Stavros]

Nightsleeper (BBC, 2024)

If this is what the new generation of sleeper trains has to offer, it might be safer, and also more interesting to walk from Glasgow to London, or maybe hire a donkey.

This is a hostage drama in which the passengers and staff of a night sleeper train are held hostage by people who are never seen, and never negotiate terms (demands for Bitcoin are made as railway station announcements), for reasons that are not made clear until the last 20 minutes of the entire six episode series, though by then most people I think will be fast asleep. In the meantime, the hero is a nerdy looking lad who has the facial hair of a 14 year old, though he does look at least 16, with the acting 'skills' that make most amateurs look Olivier. On the side of national security is a lady from Wales who looks, and sounds like a supply teacher on her first day in a rowdy inner city school. If people like Hur (as the thick Welsh accent makes it sound) are in charge of our security, Putin will be in Buckingham Palace by Christmas.

Bad writing, bad acting, and that plot twist at the end? Let's just remind anyone who needs to know that you can find re-runs of the Teletubbies somewhere on the box, or online. And it would be a better watch.

[Stavros]

Trump's Heist: President Who Wouldn't Lose? - Series 1: Episode 1 | Channel 4

This two part series aired on Channel 4 focuses on Arizona (Part 1), and Georgia (Part 2) and how Republicans in those two states resisted the attempts by Donald Trump to fix the vote in 2020 so that he won and Biden lost. It is a deeply depressing pair of shows owing to the utter rubbish presented as facts by people like Giuliani and the very, very weird Sidney Powell. When Speaker of the Arizona House, Rusty Bowers asked Giuliani what facts he had, he was told they had the names of thousands of dead people who had voted, but never showed them when asked, presumably because they did not exist.

John Eastman continues to defend his exotic interpretation of the Constitution, shared it seems, by nobody other then himself and Donald Trump, assuming the latter has a clue what Eastman was talking about.

The puzzle remains, as Eastman was teaching at the Chapman School of Law, ranked 106 out of 196 best law schools in the US, yet is claimed to be an esteemed expert on Constitutional Law. One wonders how someone few people had ever heard of was in the Oval Office not long after election day in 2020, the same with Powell, and also Cleta Mitchell, another 'expert' (not in this film) who on that notorious phone call to Georgia showed she did not know Georgia's election law.

There is a link in Eastman's case, as he once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (sponsored by Harlan Crow). Even Liz Cheney balked at grilling either Clarence or his political activist wife for the House Committee hearings. We may never know, and nobody I think has ever asked Eastman how he went from a low ranking college to the White House.

And to think this naked abuse of power could get even worse this year. But please, don't go out and buy enough weapons to run an army, you have enough of them already in America.

[Cuchulain]

Mr. Mercedes
Just discovered this on Peacock and I'm loving it. Stars Brendon Gleason as a retired detective. He's happily drinking himself to death until the one mass murderer he wasn't able to catch starts contacting him with tormenting messages. Show is dark, weird and bloody. Gleason is in top form as an angry old bugger delivering biting remarks with his unique Irish wit.