Tag: Netflix

Detective Hole (2026)–Burrowng Underneath

Written by Diana Paul on April 13, 2026. Posted in Series.

The Netflix Scandi-noir series, Detective Hole, is adapted from master Norwegian detective author, Jo Nesbø’s The Devil’s Star. A dual plot unfolds with a gruesome serial killer as one crime and a drug/weapons smuggling network of heists as the second. In the opening scene, set in Oslo, a disastrous car crash...

His and Hers–They, Theirs Anyone?

Written by Diana Paul on February 23, 2026. Posted in Television reviews.

This mini-series thriller, based on the eponymous novel by Alice Feeney, opens with the brutal murder of a young woman, Rachel Hopkins (Jamie Tisdale).She was in a car late at night oin an isolated road in the back woods of Dahlonega, Georgia. Shadows of the woman being murdered, with rain clouding the...

City of Shadows–Throw Some Shade

Written by Diana Paul on February 2, 2026. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on City of Shadows–Throw Some Shade

Based on a Spanish novel by Aro Sáinz de la Maza, we see a man hanging off a balcony of a UNESCO World Heritage site, Casa Milá (Pedrera). His body has been set on fire. The murder victim is the CEO of a giant construction company and has profited from government contracts for housing and civic development. Barcelona, City of Shadows...

Ordeal by Innocence (2018)–Who is Blameless?

Written by Diana Paul on January 25, 2026. Posted in movie reviews.

Ordeal by Innocence opens in the luxurious library at Sunny Point, the estate of wealthy heiress Rachel Argyll (Anna Chancellor). On Christmas Day she is found face down in a pool of blood. Almost immediately their ne’er-do-well son Jack is charged with the murder, found guilty, and imprisoned. Evidence pointed to Jack’s...

The Asset (2025)–Collateral Damage?

Written by Diana Paul on January 18, 2026. Posted in Television reviews.

The Asset (Danish: Legenden) opens with the murder of a Danish senior intelligence agent. The Danish counterintelligence now needs a replacement. Enter the strongly independent young Tea (Clara Dessau), in the middle of her Police Academy training. Tea has had a very difficult childhood with an alcoholic...

A Mother’s Son–Parental Doom?

Written by Diana Paul on December 8, 2025. Posted in Television reviews.

In this two-part psychological thriller, A Mother’s Son,(2012) a teenage girl is found brutally stabbed to death in a small town in Suffolk, England. On the night of her murder, newlyweds Ben (Martin Clunes of “Doc Martin”) and Rosie (Hermione Norris), are grappling with their four teenage children’s ...