This Charming Man

Wonderful British Series - too bad Amazon's abominable streaming is messing it up!
We have seen all of the series in this wonderful British police procedural. Carolyn is in our top ten of talented British women actresses, and she delivers even better in this one. Good mysteries, excellent acting - just topnotch - and engaging characters are the basis. Only the occasional episode is not so hot - 95% are terrific - and find a U.S,. series you can say that about. Which is why I'm so annoyed with Amazon. Every 5 - 10 minutes we get "your video is reloading." requiring a couple of minutes of waiting, which definitely gets in the way of enjoying the program. This problem is Amazon, and Amazon alone, as when we've gotten so annoyed with the reloading, we put on another streaming company (not allowed to say which) and found no problems at all. Go back to Amazon, and the reloading starts again. We bought this whole series from Amazon, and have yet to get through the second episode due to annoyance. We've also experienced this endless reloading with The Closer, another...

A Woman In Charge
Blue Murder, is a police procedural/murder mystery from Britain's ITV. This is a terrific series that personifies a woman in charge.

Caroline Quentin stars as Detective Chief Inspector Janine Lewis, a woman with more on her plate than most. The series takes place in Manchester, and some of the accents are most pronounced. DCI Lewis is in charge of mostly male detectives. In Series 4, there is a lovely female added who has no difficulty showing the males how good she is. the team loves and respects DCI. Lewis has a lot going for her but she is also a single mom of four children. She is pregnant in the first series when her husband leaves her for another woman. By Series Five, Lewis has learned how to deal, almost. She has a live-in nanny, but her two older children are teens, and the third chid, Thomas is always in trouble. The dad has moved to another country leaving Lewis to cope all on her own.

Her colleague, DI Richard Mayne, played by Ian Kelsey, is a friend...

Blue Murder is better than OK
I liked it enough to stick with it and not turn it off before it was over... so it was pretty good... not great but pretty good.

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