April 19, 2024: The Crime Binge sails on!

Ololade (2023)

The story of two friends: Shina, an unhappy high school teacher, and Lateef, a loud and dishonest car mechanic.

My thoughts: Amateurish and clunky.  Student film quality production.

1/5

Elite (2018 – 2024) Season 2

In the wake of a classmate’s death, a student vanishes, allegiances shift, new friends join the drama, and dark secrets become too difficult to contain.

My thoughts: Most of the gang return to for another year of sex, drugs, betrayals, and mystery with an even stronger season.

4.5/5

 Elite (2018 – 2024) Season 3

When another classmate is killed, a new investigation ensues. The students look toward their future, while the consequences of the past haunt them.

My thoughts: Sure, it can be a little much.  Okay, a lot much.  But it’s still a hell of a lot of fun.

4/5

The Sopranos (1999 – 2007) Season 1

Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony’s got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Anthony Jr. A pill of a mother. A hot-headed uncle. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to whom he tells all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony’s a mob boss. In Season One, feeling his handle on his family and his business slipping away, Tony (James Gandolfini) suffers a series of anxiety attacks that land him in the office of a psychiatrist (Lorraine Bracco). Opening up to his shrink, Tony relates the details of his life as a ‘waste-management consultant,’ and tries to come to terms with the professional and private strains that have brought him to the brink of a breakdown.

My thoughts: The greatest crime show in television history kicks off its inaugural season.  Doesn’t get any better than this.

5/5

Queens of Mystery (2019 – ) Season 1

Three crime-writing sisters and their 28-year old niece use their extensive knowledge of crime to solve whodunit style murders in the picturesque English village of Wildemarsh.

My thoughts: This quirky cozy mystery certainly has its moments, but our heroine’s infatuations with an outright imbecile makes it very hard to watch.

3.5/5

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