jlg84

It's a typical spy show of the modern era, with ridiculous plot lines, unrealistic dialogue, excessive banter, loads of the old "parent is a spy and that made the kids grow alienated from him/her" etc etc, but it would fine if only they'd cast just about anyone other than Fortune Feinstein for her role. She just isn't a believable spy, much less government employee of any significance (at least in the era before January 2025...). If they make any more, maybe they can replace her with someone else. Just please, not Awkwafina... maybe they can just do more with Travis van Winkle, at least he's easy on the eyes.

It's a police procedural like almost all the others, but set in a rather unusual location, the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, just a short ferry ride away from Newfoundland. According to my research, Saint Pierre and Miquelon is resolutely French, with a pretty monolithic population of French-speaking French people, mostly descended from Normans, Basques and other western French peoples. But if you take a look at this show, not only is English very widely spoken (and many of the people we follow regularly seem not to have any French in them) but the people are remarkably diverse, much like you'd expect in, say, Canada. Why would a French territory have a Canadian cop come over on secondment? What is he doing carrying a weapon on foreign soil? How does an island of fewer than 6000 people have so many murders?? Do they have a sister-city relationship with Cabot Cove??

I more or less enjoyed the predecessor (it was more my partner's thing, and I just sort of experienced it in passing) so we decided to try this one, too. It's more or less OK, as far as these things go, but the acting and writing is pretty poor, and as someone who has spent a lot of time overseas, I just don't understand why they've set in Belgrade but all the characters speak perfect English (maybe with an accent, but sometimes not) and all the signs in hospitals and all through the series are also in English. Seems very improbable to me (not that the magical elements are "probable"...). I suppose it doesn't do any harm, but it's hardly quality tv.