Monday, April 20, 2015

TV Review: Mord Mit Aussicht

There's a German show which has been around for three seasons....Mord Mit Aussicht....Murder With a View......which might be worth watching.

The best description would be a female version of T J Hooker getting reassigned to Mayberry, and finding herself in the middle of a potential murder/missing person case on each show.....then discovering by the end that it just didn't turn into a real murder or missing persons case.

It's a small-town situation in the rural west of Germany, where a Koln cop has been reassigned to a town with no real crime.....mostly because of her eager behavior to crack cases.  She arrives to find it's a three-cop town and she supervises two Barney-type characters.

Netflix added the series for their German/American customers.

It was a series that started with low viewers.....blamed partly on the network and the timeslot.

The network flipped the show around, and then over a period of six months.....it picked up viewers.  At some point in 2013....it got up to around seventeen percent of the market.

Total episodes?  Thirty-nine were produced.....each is roughly fifty minutes long with no commercial breaks.

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