Unit 42

Unité 42 - Trailer - Netflix
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Produced by Casa Kafka, so you know it's going to have some odd bits, like they start off mentioning that 42 is Douglas Adams' answer to everything. It's a pretty standard European crime show. We've got Sam, the middle aged white guy, whose in charge of the murder squad. His wife recently died. Then there is the crew:

• Billie, an attractive young woman, recent graduate of the police academy and computer whiz. Her boyfriend also recently died under mysterious circumstances, so mysterious there was no body. I smell a resurrection in the offing. Billie rides a high power motorcycle. My kind of gal.
• Bob, another middle aged white guy. Seems to be a solid cop, but he's the coffee and donut guy. Sometimes he decides it's your birthday and bakes a cake. I like cake. Bob also does sign language interpreting for 
• the coroner, an attractive, deaf mute, young woman.
• Nassim, a young, gay Arab, technically astute. I'm not sure what his role is. This last episode he was busy being an Arab, talking to other Arabs.
• Helen, Sam's boss, a middle aged white woman. She makes a couple of brief appearances each episode.
• Louis Vermeer, the head of counter terrorism group, or some such. Another middle-aged white guy. I think we've seen this guy exactly once, and we just finished episode 2.

Seems like there should be more people on the squad, but that's all that I can bring to mind.

The first episode was pure tittleation. It starts with Billie jumping up and down trying to get into her jeans. That was funny, but this is a crime show, so on with the crime. The bad guy hacks into young women's computers and spies on them, and then he sneaks up behind them while they are watching themselves on the computer and screen and too late they realize the killer has snuck up behind them and dropped a cord around their throat. Billie figures out who the killer is and Sam gets in his car and races to the victims apartment just in time to clonk the bad guy in the head with his gun and rescue the girl. Good job, Sam.

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Episode 2 takes on the issue of Muslim radicals. There is a disagreement among the radicals and the knives come out leaving three guys dead and two teenage girls arrested. Radicalism is a problem. Even a solitary free radical can wreak havoc in a peaceful society. That's why people keep cats, to get rid of the vermin. At least it used be. Maybe not so much in the new housing developments. I think we did have a mouse here once. As I recall, Gus (our cat) was not effective. I'm not sure how we got rid of him. Or maybe that was an escaped hamster. It's been a while. I should ask my wife.

Google Unit 42 and the Unit 42 website turns up. Seems to be all about computer security threats. What a coincidence since computer hacking seems to be the our squad's method of choice.

Netflix 18(!) Episodes, about 50 minutes each.