Capitani

Capitani: Season 2 | Official English Trailer | Netflix Original Series
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We watched season one last year. Since then Luc Capitani has spent several years in prison and is now out and about doing security for a brothel. There are a bunch of women in his life - the brothel owner, his sister, a cop he had some sort of relationship, another woman he also had a relationship with who has become a drug dealer, and a handler from some kind of secret government agency.

The best part is you get to see what daily life in a brothel is actually like. I don't think TV can properly convey just what it's like, but at least this show is trying. Paying for sex might be a reasonable thing to do, and maybe if you hung out with people who did that you might accept it as normal. For me, it's just too weird.

Capitani

CAPITANI - English Netflix Trailer
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Present day murder mystery set in the village of Manscheid, Luxembourg, except the real Manscheid is in Germany, not Luxembourg (no street view in Germany). It's 25 miles away, so close enough for our purposes, close enough to catch the bus to Belgium for the day.

A 15 year old girl dies alone in the forest and Detective Luc Capitani is assigned to investigate. The girl has a twin sister. One is the goodie two shoes and the other is the wild one. But which one died? And is anyone telling the truth? No, no they are not. Plus Luc's former girlfriend from another life turns up in the same town. Coincidence? I think not, and the nasty woman from Internal Affairs doesn't think so either.

A pleasant little show. Always nice to see what other towns look like, and nice to be reminded of the downsides to living in a small town. You know, mostly what we hear is that people abandoned the farm and moved to the big city for the greater economic opportunity available there. But what if the main reason was because of the anonymity that the big city offered? Maybe people moved to the city to escape the busibodies poking their nose into their everyone's business.

Netflix, 12 episodes, about 30 minutes each. They go fast.