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Post by marion on Sept 29, 2018 11:20:38 GMT
Code 37.
I am still none the wiser about the circumstances of Hannah's mother's death and cannot really follow her investigation, nor understand anything on her red wall/crime board. I too thought the mother had killed herself but last night's show suggested to me she was killed by an attacker.
Another WP series started this week called Alex, a Swedish series about a corrupt cop. I didn't like it at all and actually abandoned it and cancelled the series link. So that was a disappointment, especially as some promising ones have just had a first episode shown with the rest on All4.
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Post by geometryman on Oct 3, 2018 21:55:47 GMT
Code 37: Hannah's mother's death is equally incomprehensible to me. We keep getting a bit more each week - but instead of helping to complete the picture, it always seems to belong to a different jigsaw as it doesn't fit with what we've had so far.
Alex: I'm recording the second episode tonight and will watch it. It's not quite as vicious as I feared but it's also not very original. There are one or two box sets on All4 of interest but at the moment I'm watching too much else to start them.
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Post by geometryman on Oct 21, 2018 15:18:07 GMT
Alex: I've given up on it now.
Deutschland 83 series 2 (aka Deutschland 86): I've been looking for news of this and notice Amazon Prime released it in Germany and the USA a couple of days ago. Expected on C4 in January or February 2019.
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Post by marion on Nov 11, 2018 16:47:33 GMT
Code 37
This seems to have been on forever! And it is such a weird show I think. The actors sway and twitch , the cameraman seems to be trying to be all arty so he sways and jerks.... by the end I feel a bit dizzy. The men act as if they are still in the 1980s. The victims are often spoken to as if they were at fault..... Liv from L&O SVU would have a fit. And this business of the dead mother drags on with no clearer resolution and we only have one more episode unless there is a second series. But what I don't understand is how Hannah is remembering all this. Are they repressed memories which are only just resurfacing? I can't see it all being resolved next week somehow.
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Post by geometryman on Nov 11, 2018 23:48:01 GMT
Code 37: yes, a very strange show. It often seems to be the case that the victims (if still alive!) or those close to them have something to hide and aren't telling the whole truth, so Hannah & team are justified in treating them with suspicion. (I don't know what L&O SVU means - I'm guessing Law & Order, which I've never watched, and something Victims Unit?).
I think the flashbacks re the mother aren't so much to do with her repressed memories (and it wasn't that long ago - 8 years was it?) - more like feeding us viewers with extra little bits of information. If it doesn't get wrapped up next Friday, according to imdb there are 2 further series (though the write-up there for the series 1 finale seems to have crept in from a totally different production as it bizarrely talks about the battle for Tokyo!).
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Post by marion on Nov 12, 2018 15:42:55 GMT
Special Victims Unit, basically the sex crimes unit.
I think you are right about the memories. Because of the way the flashbacks storm in whenever she goes home, I had assumed they were repressed memories but in fact you make more sense with it being a device just to feed us information. It's still pretty irritating and I have no idea what happened. I don't care particularly as it has been too piecemeal for me. I don't think we really needed this sub plot.
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Post by marion on Nov 16, 2018 23:02:38 GMT
Code 37. Marvin! No!!!!!! I sincerely hope "no rabbits were harmed during the making of this programme". He was really cute.  When Hannah blacked out I saw Mark and her Dad, but who was the third guy? Do we know him or has my memory failed again? |
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Post by geometryman on Nov 17, 2018 18:43:16 GMT
Code 37.
No we haven't seen the third guy - he was the one in the mask who tasered her (or whatever he did), before removing his mask and being joined by her dad and Mark.
I believe him to be Franco Fedrigo (the "corpse" who wasn't there when she dug his supposed grave up), played by actor Peter Michel, who isn't credited in series 1 but is in a couple of episodes of series 2.
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Post by marion on Dec 28, 2018 15:45:23 GMT
Shades of Guilt seems to have fizzled out mid-run, not that it was all that good. I am not sufficiently interested to see if the remaining episodes are on All4. I did see somewhere that All4 has series 3 of Professor T so am not sure if that means they are not going to air it on More 4. The next foreign series in the Friday 9.00 slot is a French show called The Crimson Rivers and it starts on Friday January 11. RT just says that the mutilated corpse of a wealthy man is found during a forest hunting party.
Update.
I just looked on All4 and Shades of Guilt.only has 5 episodes up. Also, it says there are three series of Professor T but I can only see two so perhaps it is coming a bit later and will be on More4.
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Post by geometryman on Dec 29, 2018 10:23:13 GMT
I gave up on Shades of Guilt during episode 2. I found it rather boring, and with a charisma-free main character. Imdb says there are 6 eps in series 1 and another 4 in series 2.
I quite enjoyed Professor T series 1 on More4, and didn't know there were two more series - if series 2 was on More4 I missed it. Thanks for the heads up, I can watch it on All4. Series 3 it seems has only just this month finished its run in Belgium.
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Post by Miranda on Dec 29, 2018 11:56:17 GMT
I liked Professor T too. Don't think they showed more than one series on More 4. Although, thinking back they may have done cos an awful lot happened for one series.
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Post by marion on Dec 29, 2018 12:28:56 GMT
I saw series 2 of Professor T on More 4.
Shades of Guilt was very odd I thought. The leading actor was supposed to be this hotshot lawyer yet he did very little in each show as it was mainly about the crime itself. I expected better from the writer who is well known, I have even read one of his books. I can't be bothered to check how to spell it though.
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Post by geometryman on Dec 29, 2018 19:50:05 GMT
Looking at the latest RT to come through my letter box, I see an 8-part French crime series 'The Crimson Rivers' starts on More4 on Friday 11 January. I'll give it a go. From imdb, it's a Franco-German co-production featuring "A bizarre series of murders, a stubborn investigator duo and a lot of bodies". There are 4 different stories which it seems were shown over 8 episodes in France, but only 4 episodes in Germany and in a different order (?).
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Post by marion on Jan 12, 2019 17:26:11 GMT
I enjoyed this. An unusual location, lush forestry, the arcane hunting details, German billionaires, Nazi associations! The only thing that struck me as odd, especially if it is a Franco-German co-production, is that I didn't hear a word of German spoken, even between two German characters. Were they German actors?
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Post by geometryman on Jan 13, 2019 18:55:05 GMT
I enjoyed it too. The bodies are gruesome, but I was more horrified by Camille's highly dangerous sexual advances in a moving car!
They all spoke French throughout didn't they, though the German characters are played by German actors, which is interesting. I think we're seeing the French (8 episode) version, and I reckon in the other (4 episode) version the dialogue could well be in German.
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Anymore to come?
