I’ve just finished the South Korean show “Stranger” on Netflix. It’s a ‘whodunnit’ murder mystery in Seoul entangled with political and police corruption.
Its 16 episodes are all over an hour long, so it’s a fairly big commitment but well worth it if you’re into mysteries or thrillers.
I’ve just finished the South Korean show “Stranger” on Netflix. It’s a ‘whodunnit’ murder mystery in Seoul entangled with political and police corruption.
Its 16 episodes are all over an hour long, so it’s a fairly big commitment but well worth it if you’re into mysteries or thrillers.
I end up watching far too much K-drama on Netflix. 'Stranger' is a good one
I’ve just finished the South Korean show “Stranger” on Netflix. It’s a ‘whodunnit’ murder mystery in Seoul entangled with political and police corruption.
Its 16 episodes are all over an hour long, so it’s a fairly big commitment but well worth it if you’re into mysteries or thrillers.
I end up watching far too much K-drama on Netflix. 'Stranger' is a good one
I'm a bit ignorant of them to be honest. Any others you'd recommend on there? Cheers
If you liked 'Stranger', you might want to try ‘Black’ which is a supernatural, serial killer detective drama.
A few others:
‘Bad Guys’ – good guys team up with bad guys to catch even worse guys
If you ever worked in an office 'Misaeng' shows its just the same, if not worse, in Korea
The love a romcom in Korea. 'Strong Girl Bong Soon' and 'Oh My Ghost' are light hearted rom com/supernatural/murder mystery mashups, and actress Park Bo Young is v nice.
Not TV, but movies:
If you like horror try 'Train to Busan' or 'The Wailing'
'The Villianess' is a 'Nikita' knock off but still good action-packed fun
Just finished season 4 of the bridge. As the season progressed the drama of 'who dunnit' took a back seat, for me, to the story of the leads. Would Saga live or die? Would Henrik find his daughters? As it turns out the writer felt the same way. The serial killer element was fairly predictable and ultimately was usurped by character development. I enjoyed it. You could wallow in Saga's world, laugh at her bluntness, be moved by her search for meaning and truth. I'll be revisiting the box set at some point in the future.
Just finished season 4 of the bridge. As the season progressed the drama of 'who dunnit' took a back seat, for me, to the story of the leads. Would Saga live or die? Would Henrik find his daughters? As it turns out the writer felt the same way. The serial killer element was fairly predictable and ultimately was usurped by character development. I enjoyed it. You could wallow in Saga's world, laugh at her bluntness, be moved by her search for meaning and truth. I'll be revisiting the box set at some point in the future.
Pretty much agree with this. Personally I always wanted Season 4 to be mainly about the search for Henrik’s daughters and his and Saga’s relationship, so the murder mystery was always a bit more of a distraction than anything else.
Seasons 2 and 3 were the best ones imho, there were a few slightly cliched bits in this series, and the first one we were still getting to love Saga, but they handled the character stuff in this season very well and we got a fairly satisfying happy ending, at least by Scandinavian standards. Much loved TV series can often still be ruined by a crap ending and they avoided anything like that and left the ‘box set’ untarnished.
8/10 for the season, 9.5/10 for the 4 seasons as a whole. Right up there with my favourite ever shows. Will miss that eerie theme tune, long coat, and khaki Porsche.
Just finished season 4 of the bridge. As the season progressed the drama of 'who dunnit' took a back seat, for me, to the story of the leads. Would Saga live or die? Would Henrik find his daughters? As it turns out the writer felt the same way. The serial killer element was fairly predictable and ultimately was usurped by character development. I enjoyed it. You could wallow in Saga's world, laugh at her bluntness, be moved by her search for meaning and truth. I'll be revisiting the box set at some point in the future.
Pretty much agree with this. Personally I always wanted Season 4 to be mainly about the search for Henrik’s daughters and his and Saga’s relationship, so the murder mystery was always a bit more of a distraction than anything else.
Seasons 2 and 3 were the best ones imho, there were a few slightly cliched bits in this series, and the first one we were still getting to love Saga, but they handled the character stuff in this season very well and we got a fairly satisfying happy ending, at least by Scandinavian standards. Much loved TV series can often still be ruined by a crap ending and they avoided anything like that and left the ‘box set’ untarnished.
8/10 for the season, 9.5/10 for the 4 seasons as a whole. Right up there with my favourite ever shows. Will miss that eerie theme tune, long coat, and khaki Porsche.
Recently watched on iplayer a BBC Wales drama called Keeping Faith. Was a really good watch and deserved to be on BBC 1 or 2. Now watching another BBC Wales drama called Hidden, part Welsh language and sub titled but four episodes in and it too is really good. I'd recommend both, certainly whiles away a long train journey.
@Fanny Fanackapan This is us season 2 started tonight on More 4 in case you have not already seen it.
Thanks, MOL.
This automatically recorded as we had series link on the 1st.
Due to watch later as started the 6 parter Secret City last night......and then watched the whole lot !
Would def recommend this one.
I've never cried so much for a fictional character's death... It was so heart-breaking for me to see the Pearson family's reactions to the tragedy. I cried during watching the episode of the funeral and even it was over it took me over twenty minutes to stop crying and calm down.
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Its 16 episodes are all over an hour long, so it’s a fairly big commitment but well worth it if you’re into mysteries or thrillers.
A few others:
‘Bad Guys’ – good guys team up with bad guys to catch even worse guys
If you ever worked in an office 'Misaeng' shows its just the same, if not worse, in Korea
The love a romcom in Korea. 'Strong Girl Bong Soon' and 'Oh My Ghost' are light hearted rom com/supernatural/murder mystery mashups, and actress Park Bo Young is v nice.
Not TV, but movies:
If you like horror try 'Train to Busan' or 'The Wailing'
'The Villianess' is a 'Nikita' knock off but still good action-packed fun
I'm three episodes in and it's great so far. Well worth a watch
Moving onto The Staircase now
I thought the 2 homeless girls might have been his missing daughters.....yes/no ??
Why in earth wouldn’t you finish it to find out what happens instead of come on here to ask?
Seasons 2 and 3 were the best ones imho, there were a few slightly cliched bits in this series, and the first one we were still getting to love Saga, but they handled the character stuff in this season very well and we got a fairly satisfying happy ending, at least by Scandinavian standards. Much loved TV series can often still be ruined by a crap ending and they avoided anything like that and left the ‘box set’ untarnished.
8/10 for the season, 9.5/10 for the 4 seasons as a whole. Right up there with my favourite ever shows. Will miss that eerie theme tune, long coat, and khaki Porsche.
James Acaster
Jessie Knappett
Phil Wang
Kerry Godliman
Rhod Gilbert
This is us season 2 started tonight on More 4 in case you have not already seen it.
Who?
Who?
Who?
Who?
Rhod Gilbert is 1 of my favourite comedians
James Acaster is funny seen him on Mock the Week alot
Kerry Godliman seen her a couple of times on panel shows she can be quite funny
Other 2 never heard off
This automatically recorded as we had series link on the 1st.
Due to watch later as started the 6 parter Secret City last night......and then watched the whole lot !
Would def recommend this one.
He dies ?