Rumplestilts

Sara Mortensen is perfect and endows Astrid with vulnerability and the acquired (learned) tenacity required for police work. Watching her various tics and subtle (and not so subtle) movements is amazing; what an actor! All of the other actors portray their characters with believable attributes. You care about all of them. The stories are complicated but Astrid is the smartest one in the room. The surprise addition of...someone (won't spoil the surprise by providing any identification) gives Astrid more opportunity for growth. If the crew could continue to provide one show per week, I'd watch Astrid for the rest of my life. It's that good.

As others have written, Sister Boniface "just is" and, except for a subtle hint about her earlier work with MI5 or whatever, there is no acceptable reason she runs the show for the cops. As well, the story resolutions are in the vein of "then a miracle happens" with something evidentiary.

This show makes the Father Brown shows seem like Grantchester; in short, there's much less here than meets the eye. Pity.

Plenty of details about this title in other reviews so I won't repeat them here. Suffice to say that this is a charming comedy with a few well-chosen messages about tolerance and community. I thoroughly enjoyed it and can recommend it for all ages.