I ended up this past Sunday evening (8:15) watching the Tatort series on ARD. To describe Tatort....it's a crime drama....running for 90 minutes...which weekly features one out of a 15-odd cities. Yes, there's been a murder....which they spend the whole show with a couple of police-characters.....trying to tie up loose ends.
To be honest....I might watch eight of these per year. I'm just not into krimi-dramas unless it's really decent script-writing and unusual characters. The Wiesbaden-drama from six years ago...featured some scenario where 40-odd bad-guys were killed over 3 days...is an example of great writing.
So this Sunday evening's event? Out of Bremen, and entitled: If Only One Could Be Saved.
It took about 3 minutes to lay out the murder....German college girl...some lounge-pimp....cash handed over.....girl end up pushed down a stairs...dead. But you never see who pushed her down.
The two female detectives arrive, and the show spends about sixty minutes laying a fairly lame situation. German university 'kids' can't afford housing....side-story develops around a messy partnership apartment and outrageous rent.
At some point near the end....some 15-year old kid is part of the crime...drives off in a RV. Some 2-minute 'race' through side-streets of Bremen.
The sad side story? I basically had this....a NFL football situation....'Jungle-Camp'....or some cooking show from 2018....to pick from.
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This is the reason I have Prime and Netflix. My wife is amazed I can spot the murderer in the first 10 minutes of most Krimis. I find it hard to tell if television and movies have just gotten repetitive or I have gotten older and have seen every possible scenario.
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