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Sunday, February 5, 2012

International Mysteries

It's such a relief to have access to a few Swedish, Italian, French, and German detective series 6 days a week. The social idealism, the strong female characters, a lack of the relentless pursuit of happiness, ah ... what a breath of fresh air in an ever more suffocating cultural environment of my real life. They make me feel like I am not a lone freak.

2 comments:

CAVA said...

BBC4 has just finished Danish series The Killings, which I've missed completely for some reason. From today a total of ten Montalbano episodes will start, definitely a treat!

Little Meatball said...

好多人都说 The Killings 好看,我去调查一下。

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