The Whisper Man | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Creepy movie about child murderers. Michael Keaton plays a man who murdered five children. Robert De Niro is the cop who caught him 25 years ago. Adam Scott is De Niro's adult son. His kid has disappeared and he is understandably losing his mind. Owen Teague plays Keaton's adult son who is carrying on his father's tradition of killing kids. Hamish Linklater plays Norman Collins, an eccentric collector of murder memorabilia.
Once again the cop on the spot, Amanda Beck, decides to charge ahead into danger without waiting for backup, and once again, we have the villain sneaking up behind her to stick a knife into her.
Murder mystery. All the pieces are there, someone just has to pick them up.
Graveyard: Season 3 | Official Trailer | Netflix
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I've been trying to figure out what it is about a show the makes it enjoyable, and it's very difficult to describe. If I like a show, I'll dive in and become engrossed in the story line and won't notice anything about the production. If I don't like a show, I will sweep it from my mind, so describing what makes a show enthralling or excruciating is a bit difficult for me, but I'm gonna give it shot here.
It feels like they are trying very hard to make the show as much like a western show as possible, it feels a little rough around the edges. Most of it is very good but every so often something will happen that upsets the flow of show flowing into you. It's like a roller-coaster ride, where you are rushing by strange stuff and you are enjoying the thrill of the chase, but every so often something will happen, like your car hits bump and you say what was that? but you've already moved way beyond that so you let it slide.
What kind of things? A scene might be rushed, there is no lead in, we jump into the middle of a conversation, we hear a dozen words, and we are back out. It leaves one wondering what was that even about? Some of the bit players don't feel real, a little too wooden in movement and speech.
The entire show is basically about women's rights in half-moslem Turkey. The police have created a special unit to handle femicides and our girl has been assigned to lead it. This season has her gang fighting a well financed program of harassment and intimidation. There's also the usual family drama, I sleep through that, though in this show they are usually pretty short. In the end our girl catches the culprits and that's all that matters.
Blood Sacrifice | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Another serial killer on the loose. This one is targeting the police. He kills six or seven before the cops finally catch up him. It's not too bad a show but it's not a great one either. The lead detective spends a lot of time dealing with his father, a former cop and a serious curmudgeon. It's not clear what their issue is, maybe it's a subtle language thing that didn't make it through translation, or maybe the old man is just a stinker.
It's got all the standard Netflix diversity stuff: the competent, immigrant, gay, cop; the hot chick playing second fiddle to our lead detective; women in high level positions, and a white male in charge who falsified records that pushed our killer over the edge.
The last episode was pretty bad. Alfred (the grandfather) meets the killer at the museum, gets in a car with him and rides away. You'd think he would be a little more circumspect. Things go from bad to worse and then his son shows up and things just get ridiculous.
The killer spends a lot of time at the museum looking at this painting. Grandpa notes the similarity between the contortions of the people on the ground the positions of the slain police officers when they were found. Note also the tree with skulls.
Excellent. Successful novelist has his identity stolen so completely that he is left homeless, broke and living on the street. Now a thug who has been searching for him for three years catches up with him demanding payment of an old debt. Our boy obviously can't pay so the thug beats the snot out of him. In between punches our boy manages to convince the thug that he will get paid if they can figure out who stole his identity, and they are off, racing around Seoul, chasing down clues all to a bangin' soundtrack.
Stealing identities is both an ongoing business and a problem. Unidentified bodies keep turning up and now it is beginning to look like these people can't be identified because their identity has been stolen and now all the government records of this identity now point to the person who bought the stolen identity.
It gets a little confusing because there are different gangs, or maybe just different factions of the same gang, all trying to collect the loot. Also, it begins to look like the identity thief might be the real guy and the real guy might be the fake.
There are several brutal mass fighting scenes and one spectacular smash up of a bunch of police cars.
The show starts off with visiting a number of apparently unrelated old people. This gets my curiousity going. Why are we visiting all these people? Turns out their names are all on a list found in a notebook that was found with the remains of a dead body, a body that died 40 years ago. Now we have a team of like six detectives investigating this death. So tell me, what police department has got the resources to put six detectives on investigating a 40 year old death? There isn't one, unless they've got their head screwed on backwards. However, this is England, and England seems terminally confused these days, so, if you are feeling vindictive about England this show might seem plausible. But it ain't, it's a fantasy. It is a pretty entertaining fantasy.
Until you get to the middle of the season and now we've got all these people losing their minds over what they think might have happened 40 years ago. I don't think I've ever run into a bigger bunch of weak minded people in my life. Of course, the circle of people I associate with is pretty small, so maybe there are hordes of morons out there running around loose.
Then we've got the coppers trying to piece together what happened from what people tell them of what they remember. Half of their memories are missing, and half of the people are lying, so if you are getting any kind of picture, it's going to be very patchy. Hard to imagine building any kind of case for murder.
There are a few bits of fancy forensics, but the lab techs who do this work are entirely too happy about it. Maybe they just wanted a change of pace from the standard dour old lab curmudgeon.
6 seasons, 6 episodes each. Probably finish this season but I don't think I'll watch any more.
P. S. The first season is free but after that you have to pay, even if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber. We're already paying for Netflix and Amazon Prime, I don't need to paying any surcharges.
Blood Coast: Season 2 - Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix
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Season 2 carries on from season 1. Early on our gang (the police narcotics unit) interrupts an altercation between a couple of thugs from rival gangs. One of the thugs is Mehdi who happens to be a childhood friend of Tatoo, one of the coppers. On account of this friendship Tattoo lets Mehdi go. The entire rest of the show has everyone regretting that, especially Tattoo. While Tattoo has grown up to be a law abiding citizen, Mehdi has grown up to be a wild man bent on gaining respect and he doesn't care how many people he kills to get it. He is a genuine, certified, piece of shit. You know early on that his behavior is going to result in him dying an early death. Unfortunately that doesn't happen, so you are going to have to wait for Season 3 to see him (a) shot down in a gun battle with the police, (b) shot down in a gun battle with a rival gang of thugs, or (c) his older brother Yassine finally gets tired of his shit and executes him. No sign of it yet, his brother is totally devoted, but even there are limits to what even the most devoted will tolerate.
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Effervescent young woman detective inadvertently solves crimes that stump the police department big shots. Don't ask how someone so young and bubbly has become a detective. She has enlisted (dragooned) the support of the most stone faced man in the world. He used to be a detective but something bad happened and now he works as an interpreter. He's seen it all and he knows that most everybody is lying most of the time. And oh yeah, our girl has green hair and likes to eat the weirdest food she can find. The first show has her eating scorpions on a stick and ox penis stew and she apparently enjoys it all. Very entertaining.
Interpreting languages is a recurring theme. Slang causes all kinds of problems. Our interpreter used to frequent a bar and his visits there would keep him apprised of Chinese slang. But he stops going and now he's no longer up-to-speed on the current slang, which means he has to fall back on literal translation and you know that isn't going to go well.
In another episode we hear that Vietnam uses Kanji characters for peoples names, though the pronunciation is completely different. A couple of guys working in a nursing home use the same characters for their names, but the Vietnamese guy is called Tien and the Japanese man is called Susumu.
Dark Winds Season 4 | Official Trailer ft. Zahn McClarnon | Premieres February 15 on AMC+
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Not very tight, kind of goopy, but the southwest desert scenery is cool.
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn's wife has left him and moved to Los Angeles. Jim Chee and Bernadette continue their romance. They should not be working together, but when you only have a few people to work with, you make do. So far they've been lucky. Jim is suffering from some kind of psychic crisis. He keeps imagining wounds and nose bleeds. I suspect it has something to do with his mother.
From the cars and the rock and roll sound track I deduce that the show is set in the early 1970s.
Meanwhile, some kind of criminal enterprise has overflowed from L. A. to the Indian Reservation and a German woman has been dispatched to clean up the mess. So far we've got four dead and she's not done. She operates out of a small van that serves as her living quarters and armory. Her father is an old man living in a fallout shelter in L. A. She is kind of keen on adventure stories about the old west, especially:
Winnetou I is an 1893 adventure novel by German author Karl May, which is featured as a key plot element in Season 4 of the TV series Dark Winds. In the show, the assassin Irene Vaggan (played by Franka Potente) develops a dangerous obsession with Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) because she links him to the romanticized Apache warrior Winnetou from the books she read as a child. - Google
She also has a complete set of Karl May novels in her van.
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Teenage boys being goofballs, doing stunts, recording their antics to post on-line and collecting followers. One of their group inexplicably takes a toy gun to a police station and starts pointing it at people. The police, as expected, shoot him. Since this is the world we live in, there are a bunch on people with nothing better to do than to hang around in front of the police station. They all have their smartphones and somebody manages to record the shooting. Since our guy, a scruffy old police detective, is the shooter and the video gets posted online, he attracts a sizeable following, and as you might expect, most of it is negative.
The detective's estranged daughter is also posting videos or herself wearing a mask and making predictions. It's all full and games until she starts predicting deaths and the deaths start occurring. And wouldn't you know it, the guys who are turning up dead are the original goofballs we started with.
The investigation goes round and round but eventually we start getting some clues, and they all point to a car crash that you could blame on our goofballs. I wouldn't blame them, but the driver does, and when he has a second crash immediately after the first one and his pregnant wife is killed, he embarks on a complicated course of revenge that involves forcing the daughter to make the predictions and then fulfilling those predictions.
Only at the very end do we find that the second crash was caused by errant bullet fired by another cop while harassing a druggie, and goofballs weren't really the problem at all.
Summer of 1936 on the French Riviera. Factory workers have just gained a two-week, annual, paid vacation, so we've got a bunch of proles as well as the usual gang of swells in town. Our girl is also here, just graduated from the police academy and assigned to this out of the way place on her request. It also happens to be where her father is locked up awaiting his upcoming execution for murder, a murder his daughter is sure he did not commit. She's trying to do her job, and trying to find evidence to clear her father without letting her boss know that she is her father's daughter. And then we get swells being murdered, one after another, at the fancy hotel, so the cops have got their hands full.
Very entertaining in an Agatha Christie kind of way.
P. S. In French. Execution is be done using a guillotine. From Wikipedia:
After its adoption, the device remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. The last person to be executed by a government via guillotine was Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian murderer, on 10 September 1977 in France.
Tagusari Brothers is a Japanese crime drama starring Masaki Okada and Shota Sometani. The story follows two brothers who join the police as a detective and a medical examiner. Acting as police officers, in each episode they investigate a new murder. On their own, they continue to try and unravel the mystery of their parent's murder that happened thirty years ago. Curious characters, curious cases.
Why have they waited this long to start investigating this crime? Near as I can tell, they were prompted by a new law that declared a statue of limitations on crimes committed before some date, or after some date, I was never clear about exactly what changed. In any case it was enough to prompt these two to start investigating their parents murder. They didn't start before then because the police were investigating and the brothers, being good Japanese citizens, do what they are told and leave the investigation to the police. This unquestioned faith in the police is exactly what got their father killed.
Their father worked in a machine shop. One of his coworkers has a wife who needs an expensive operation, so he takes on a side job of making some guns for the local mafia. The guns are made and they just need to be delivered. Right then, the sick wife collapses at the machine shop. The coworker entrusts delivery of the package to the boy's father. Everything would have been fine as long as the father doesn't open the package, but he does, and then he compounds his error telling everyone within earshot that he is going to report this to the police. The mafia is not happy and so mark him for execution.
It turns out that when the assassin arrives to kill the parents, they are already dead, or on their way, having been poisoned. The assassin knows nothing of the poison and the parents are still breathing, so the assassin follows through on his mission and kills them.
So who poisoned the parents? The pawnshop owner. Her father was also killed by the mafia because the gun deal went bad. Seems a little extreme, but maybe dealing in guns makes people super paranoid.
No trailer, but here's a couple of items of interest.
Delhi Crime: Season 3 | Official Trailer | Shefali Shah, Huma Qureshi, Rasika Dugal | Netflix
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The third season of Delhi Crime moves away from its primary Delhi focus, following a sprawling, interstate investigation into a brutal human trafficking network that targets vulnerable young girls across India.
Badi Didi is a 30-ish woman who runs this smuggling operation. She gathers up young women (15 to 18 years old) and ships them to John Ji, who I thought was in Thailand but I may have got that wrong. He may just be somewhere around Bombay. The story Badi Didi is telling the girls is that they are going to get good jobs, like maid or waiter, but the implication is they are being sold into sexual slavery. I mean every way point on their journey to Badi Didi is a brothel. On the other hand all the girls speak English and apparently have passports. I'm pretty sure you don't need to speak English in order to have sex, so maybe they aren't being sold into sexual slavery, but maybe they are being sold into call center slavery.
Finished the series last night and this morning I see this on the Daily Wire:
The FBI recently took out a massive internet scam network, arresting over 300 people, freeing over 2,000 people from human trafficking, and seizing over $8 billion in cryptocurrency.
The FBI said last week that it primarily focused on taking down what it calls “scam compounds” in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The scam compounds are typically guarded and filled with trafficked workers who are forced to conduct romance scams and fake investment schemes that target many Americans. Over 2,000 people were freed from the compounds.
The operation focused on Prince Holding Group, a company in Cambodia. Authorities also took out a criminal compound in Dubai, Myanmar, and Thailand. Altogether, the FBI seized over 127,000 bitcoin from the nine scam compounds, which is over $8 billion, making it the largest crypto seizure in human history.
Handsome young policeman, son of police big shot, moves to small town where he teams up with a 20 year veteran. Shortly thereafter there is a murder, a murder in a small town where there hasn't been a murder in 20 years. The story centers on the staff of the local Manyang police substation. Note: Manyang is not the same as Munju.
Characters. All men unless otherwise noted.
Lee Dong-sik - A local detective whose life was turned upside down when his sister disappeared 20 years ago,
Han Joo-won - A young, handsome detective, son of the Assistant Director of the National Police Force.
Park Jeong-je - A captain at the Manyang substation and Dong-sik's childhood friend.
Yoo Jae-yi (woman) - The hardworking operator and manager of the Manyang butcher shop and restaurant.
Nam Sang-bae - The chief of the Manyang police substation, nearing the end of his career.
Oh Ji-hwa (woman) - Head of the violent crimes team at the Munju Police Station. Previously married to:
Lee Chang-jin - The CEO of the JL Construction company, heavily involved in local development projects. Previously married to Oh Ji-hwa. Slimy thug. You despise him as soon as he opens his mouth.
The grocer, apparently not too smart, and he has a stutter.
Han Joo-won's father, big shot in the national police force.
Park Jeong-je's mother, local politician.
Several women victims.
Very slow paced story of horrific serial killer in a small town in Korea. It starts with the discovery of a body. The investigation goes very slowly for the first 7 or 8 episodes, mostly we have everyone suspecting everyone else. They the investigation starts getting results. Eventually the whole story is revealed.
The story starts 20 years ago when the sister of a local policeman, Lee Dong-sik, discovers their neighbor, the grocer attempting to dispose of the body of a woman he has killed. He, being the demented son-of-a-bitch that he is, cuts off the tips of her fingers. She manages to escape from his clutches and runs down the road looking for help. The chief of police (who will be Han's father), driving home drunk after a late night party with his two partners, hits her and kills her. He calls his partner, Lee Chang-jin, to come help him clean up the mess. The Chang-jin shows up, takes charge, and the chief leaves. Chang-jin doesn't do anything, he leaves the body in the middle of the road. Not too much later, a teenage boy, Park Jeong-je, also drunk, comes down the same road and runs over the body. He calls his mom, who is the chief's other partner. She calls Chang-jin and he comes out to this same scene, again. He loads the body in his car, but then . . . something happens, I don't recall exactly what . . . and when he gets back the body is gone. The grocer has finally caught up with his victim. He carts her off, takes her back to her house (not his house) and walls her up in a concrete block wall next to the boiler, which he repaired. This repair must have been going on at the same time in order for his working in the basement to go unremarked.
Now everyone clams up and the murder goes unsolved for 20 years. The dead girl's brother, Lee Dong-sik, is now an inspector with the local police department. Chang-jin has become a developer and Park Jeong-je's mother is running for mayor. The chief of police (Han's father) is now the deputy director of the national police force. His son, Han, has joined the police. As part of all cops early service, they need to spend some time in a rural district, so he gets transferred to this same small town.
He's a good looking guy, but he's got some minor psychological problems. He's hyper-sensitive about cleanliness, his personal space and the letter of the law. He seems to be a good cop, but it takes him forever to respond to anyone talking to him. Or maybe that's just the director wanting to keep his pretty face on the screen for a while. He seems to be pretty smart, but these long delays make him look kind of stupid, so what's the deal?
Now another body shows up. Actually, it's the first one the grocer killed. It was buried in the swamp 20 years ago but has worked its way to the surface. Her fingertips have also been cut off, which leads to suspicion that it might be the cop's missing sister, but DNA evidence shows that it is not her.
Dong-sik and Han have both been collecting missing persons reports and they have about a dozen reports of women about 30 years old who have gone missing. This new dead body spurs them to do some more digging. They spend a good deal of time suspecting each other over the flimsiest of circumstances. Can't say as I blame them since they don't have any other evidence.
Now the grocer kills his 20 year old daughter. Evidently, 20 years ago, a hooker got pregnant and then latched onto the grocer who marries her. The hooker gives birth, leaves the baby with the grocer and runs off. Now the grocer embarks on a 20 year campaign of revenge, killing hookers and burying them in a field. The baby grows up to be an irresponsible brat. Both the grocer and the kid suspect he is not her father. Eventually her behavior sends him over the edge and he kills her. Now his whole sordid tale unravels.
The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Very creepy, very frustrating. We've got a stalker who surreptitiously makes video recordings of people and then sends them those recordings along with bits of a nursery rhyme. Once they are well on edge, our stalker sneaks in, kills them and then slips away, often just seconds before our hero cops appear. Bodies start piling up, and then they start hitting closer to home, so now we're super motivated to find this scum bag, and find them we do.
The climax was a bit irritating. Our big and strong hero Hess has finally tracked down the villain, a slightly built woman, but he doesn't have a positive ID yet, so she's just a suspect. But she ain't waiting for the handcuffs, she makes a surprise attack on our boy with an ax, doesn't connect with the ax, but manages to knock him to the ground. While he's on the ground she manages to give him a big ax whack in his leg. There is a tussle and he manages to get back on his feet and runs away to the bog. Who knows how people's brains react under stress, but I can tell you from the comfort of my armchair that was the wrong thing to do. He should have dealt with this woman here and now. Of course he doesn't have his gun because he's been suspended. Of course he has, dramatic cop shows, you know.
We only watched the first couple of episodes and then we had had enough of these people. I'm only posting this because I laid all the ground work when we started watching it and I'm cleaning out my drafts folder.
Love & Death is a 7-episode true-crime drama miniseries, now streaming on Netflix as of December 2025, that chronicles the 1980 killing of Betty Gore by Candy Montgomery in Texas. Starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons, the show follows a suburban affair that turns deadly, leading to a high-profile murder trial. - Google
Kohrra: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Mona Singh, Barun Sobti | Netflix India
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India is a strange place. On one hand they have an elite subculture that has adopted many Western ways. On the other hand the vast majority of the country is totally enthralled with their infinitely long tradition of being Indian. Makes trying to enforce the Western idea of law and order a very iffy proposition.
No trailer. Another very slow paced show, mostly about people dealing with the after effects of violent crime. Leading characters are all likable, actor portraying the villain does a good job making him reprehensible.
Four kids, maybe 12 years old, go out in the woods after school, even though they've been warned there is an armed criminal on the loose. They discover one kid's father, a policeman, dead on the ground. He and the criminal shot each other and both are dead. The pick up the cops gun, put it in a cooler, and bury it.
23 years later all four are back in the same town and the manager of a grocery store is shot and killed. Forensic evidence says the gun that was used to kill him is the dead policeman's gun, the one who was killed 23 years ago. The four kids go dig up their 'time capsule' and discover the gun is missing.
Three of the four have possible motives for killing the manager, and their alibis are terrible. Nobody can tell the truth, for reasons. Place your bets on who's guilty and who gets blamed.
Eventually, the guy and girl get together and all is well.
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Someone Has to Know is a 2026 Chilean crime-drama series inspired by the 1999 disappearance of Jorge Matute Johns. Not your usual murder mystery, this one is all about misery, persistence, and never finding out what happened.
When her son Julio (Clemente Rodriguez) disappears during a wild night out with friends, Vanessa Font (Paulina García) places her trust in the justice system and her local community to bring him home. The investigator in charge, Detective Montero (Alfredo Castro), thinks they’ll have the case wrapped up in a matter of days. After all, hundreds of people saw the missing teen at the nightclub he and his friends frequented. But Vanessa’s hope turns to rage when each lead — a shady nightclub owner accused of running a trafficking business, a mute witness who claims to have seen Julio’s violent abduction, and a priest who refuses to break his vow of confidentiality — turns into a dead end. Someone knows what happened to her beloved son, and she’ll chase the truth until the bitter end — even if it takes decades.
The mother makes enough noise that a squad of six police are assigned to the case for over a year. They only learned that the kid had died when the mother asked the priest to make an official prayer of some sort, and the priest refused. We can only surmise that she was asking that her son be returned to her live and well, and the priest knew that was not going to happen because he knew the kid was dead. The priest is the most interesting character in this story.
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Very funny. 3 squirrely women go to a small town in Ireland to attend a funeral for their friend. Except their friend isn't dead, but somebody else is. There is some nefarious scheme running in the background, but our three dames can't figure out 1) if they want to do anything about it, and 2) what they should do if they do want to do anything about it, so they spend a lot of time arguing about what they should do, or not. Hijinks ensue.
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