This puzzle was pretty tough. There is so much detail and the pieces are so small, I was only able to group about 20% of the pieces going by colors and patterns. For the rest of the puzzle, I resorted to sorting the pieces by shape and then checking each piece that had the correct number of bumps and indents. Cool picture though. Six megabyte wallpaper available here.
A Nearly Normal Family | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Swedish murder mystery but it's more of a family drama. Daughter Stella gets arrested for killing her boyfriend, a rich guy ten years older than her. No gun play, no car chases, at least not yet, but for some reason it completely sucked us in.
Part of it, I think, is that we like puzzles, and this show is very puzzling. There are little clues all over the place, but you never know if they are real clues or just red herrings designed to lead us down the garden path.
Now it could be that we just have a couple of teenagers being stupid, but there is an undercurrent of something not-quite-right with some of the players. We're halfway through the six episodes so we should have our answers shortly.
I've heard parts of this story before, but there's a lot I hadn't heard. I knew about the gaseous diffusion process at Oak Ridge, but I hadn't heard about the other two methods. I'd heard about the spherical implosion design and the bridge wire detonators, but never any explanation of why it was necessary. And fizzle, as in a bomb that sort of blows up but doesn't really, was new to me as well.
Gory little horror film that's not very horrific. We have a woman cop, recently transplanted from Oslo or Sweden, along with her two daughters. The younger daughter, Jenny, is elementary school age. The other, Thale, is a teenager. She is out in the boonies, hanging out with her friends when another girl is attacked and drug off into the woods. A search for the missing girl eventually turns up her mutilated body. A big city veterinarian examines the body and concludes that the girl was attacked by an extraordinarily large wolf.
A grisly, old, one-armed dude shows up and tells our lady cop that it's not an ordinary wolf, but a werewolf, a werewolf that he has been tracking for years. He gives her a box of silver bullets that he has put together using the reloading equipment he has set up in his aging RV. She thinks, as any normal, right thinking person would, that he's nuts. A hunting party is organized to track down and kill this wolf. The wolf makes mincemeat of the hunting party, but the lady cop manages to empty the magazine of her 9 mm H&K sidearm into the beast, killing it.
Our nerdy vet (It's amazing what you can do with a little costuming and acting. He is super nerdy.) examines the corpse and determines that none of the lead bullets our lady cop fired did any real damage to the beast, but the silver bullet (aha!), that one killed it.
Meanwhile Thale has been nursing a scratch on her shoulder that she got when the first girl was attacked. Looks like she has been infected by the werewolf disease. Uh oh, this looks bad. Bad is putting it mildly. She raises hell in town until she is put down with the vet's tranquilizer gun. Last we see of her she is unconscious and tied down on the operating table. Mom has a silver bullet, but doesn't use it thereby leaving an opening for a sequel.
Heddal Stave Church
The best part of the show was a shot of an old church:
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