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"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
There are a plethora of excellent good English and American comedic mysteries as this thread shows!
One that hasn't come up that I can recommend is called 'The Nero Wolfe Mysteries' which is based on a series of books.
The recent series of Maigret also deserves a mention.
Would you include radio shows too? Lord Peter Wimsey and Paul Temple are both good listens IMO, if a bit dated. The BBC runs both with some regularity on Radio 4 and 4Extra.
Well gak, that's two good things this thread's done - I started browsing wikipedia to find a Psych episode to watch and found out they did a sodding movie continuing the story, I didn't have a clue.
EDIT: And it was good Less self-indulgent than the last season of the show.
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"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
I liked the concept of Monk, couldn't get into the shows. showing the murderer doing the crime first takes the fun out mysteries, because there's no mystery.
Wasn't that the Columbo thing? Or did Monk do it too? Never really watched either.
Oh, and we can add Mrs Columbo to the list, I believe. That's unless Turnip Jedi flat out made it up (which he didn't unless he faked the web pages to support it too!)
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Azreal13 wrote: Wasn't that the Columbo thing? Or did Monk do it to? Never really watched either.
Oh, and we can add Mrs Columbo to the list, I believe. That's unless Turnip Jedi flat out made it up (which he didn't unless he faked the web pages to support it too!)
columbo might have done it well, but if you want to get old school with it then we need to add:
Mrs Kilkrazy is devoted to Columbo. I used to think Columbo was a load of hokey old American crap, but once I started to watch them carefully, I found they are actually really well done.
Azreal13 wrote: Wasn't that the Columbo thing? Or did Monk do it too? Never really watched either.
Oh, and we can add Mrs Columbo to the list, I believe. That's unless Turnip Jedi flat out made it up (which he didn't unless he faked the web pages to support it too!)
it was real, although oddly you're the second person to suggest I somehow went to great lengths to fabricate the whole thing on the intertubes
"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
I think Mrs Columbo just never got shown on repeated occasions or in a good strong time slot - so its one of those shows that has existed and yet never really got noticed. That and I suspect the main show just steals the lime light. I've "heard of it" in passing but I've never seen it appear on the TV.
That and it might be one of those programs that never made it much across the sea to the UK - much like some other bigger shows never did (eg the Police Academy TV series)
Less self-indulgent than the last season of the show.
