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I seen some reviews that were critical of the program being far too slow. Apparently, they are entertained by the procedural programs in which after a crime is committed in the first 10 minutes the rest of episode is spent gathering facts and suspects until the last 5 minutes when an arrest is made. Police work often is far more extensive requiring days, weeks or longer to arrive at a resolution. The weakness in this program was the potential police coverup which has become something of a cliche. Also, another cliche is potentially attaching a crime to the wrong individual. Otherwise, this particular program was very entertaining.

This is another version of the French serial, Astrid, about a young woman with Autism who likes solving puzzles. She works in the filing of Criminal files, having been placed in the custody of a person in charge of the area following the death of her parents at young age. She becomes a critical piece of solving criminal cases for the police. Watching the first episode I can't help comparing the two and I certainly hope this version is an entertaining as the original. Astrid has at least one more Season coming available in the Spring of 2026 and I am looking forward to it since the last Season ended on one of those cliff hangers.

The only worthwhile thing that is in this movie is Rachel Zegler who is charming and has a wonderful singing voice. Unfortunately, the only memorable song she was given was "Whistle While You Work" and even that was somewhat negatively impacted by the dwarfs (sorry, little people). There were moments that had entertaining value but those moments were overshadowed by weak dialogue and poor Direction. Modern Disney has a knack for attempting recreate past successful animated stories by bringing them to "life" but each time the efforts have been abysmal failures. I think they would be better to leave well enough alone. In this case they added to the story which offered absolutely no improvement over the original one.