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Another carefully crafted and brilliant British TV series. It's too bad that the Hollywood types don't seem to care enough to make great TV shows over the last few decades. The British in the 2000's seem to have lost their way as well. I mostly watch movies and TV shows from France, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Egypt, and sometimes from various Asian countries. Most material from other countries, seems to have too much propaganda in it to bother fast-forwarding through, including nearly everything from the United States. Propaganda mixed with lousy acting, idiotic scripts, bad directing, sloppy camera work, and poor production design really puts me off. The film makers seem to in a race to the bottom as far as their version of the quest for 'quality.' Also their characters, and the plots are completely out of touch with nearly every one of their viewers. They do stories about extremely bizarre characters, who are abysmally stupid and unbelievably ignorant about everything. These characters stumble around, seemingly randomly, bouncing off of each other, and never doing anything intelligent about their situation. Pathetic! There are a number of reasons why this has been increasingly the norm over the last quarter century. In the middle 1990's, most professional screenwriters, who had done great work for decades, were fired by the new generation of banker-controlled extremist producers, and replaced with young writers who had no experience writing anything. These new writers were not picked for their talent, creativity, and professional experience; merely by who would work for next to nothing, and usually who were related to, or chosen by the new producers/bankers/agents agencies. Extremely negative, no-talent types with personal vendettas moved in and completely took over the whole process of 'packaging' TV series and films from then on. Their extreme cheapness, combined with their lack of creativity, complete inability to grasp the necessity for quality writers and production professionals, and their 'blockbuster'/'sure thing' mentality, has basically destroyed the ability to produce anything for the rest of us. Thus, starting in the middle 1990s through and including now and into the future, the number of people who watch TV programs and go to see films has and is dropping dramatically. Re-doing old films and TV shows over and over, is becoming common. Striving to do great quality NEW TV shows and films, with stories that most everyone can enjoy, has virtually disappeared. It's almost as if it is being done deliberately, to do away with the entire film and TV industries. There is another possibility, alluded to earlier in this review, which is a very carefully orchestrated campaign of propaganda , aimed at dumbing-down and brutalizing the audience to the lowest levels, as their rights are taken away by the aristocracy in the United States, to transform everyone into more easily controlled serfs/slaves. It also did/does another important action. of causing many people, particularly young people and the disadvantaged, to take on extreme identities for personal identity, gender, relationships, people they idealize, important knowledge, prejudice, etc., parsing themselves into more and more narrow categories, and encouraging them to violently attack each other verbally and physically based on these tiny differences, thus turning most everyone into prejudiced bigots against each other. This process keeps everyone from celebrating the differences, and combining/collaborating to defeat the aristocracy in the United States, and around the world, who are the ones actually responsible for the increasingly terrible suffering and problems here and elsewhere. This makes a lot of sense, given how the U. S. aristocracy is currently taking over the federal and state governments, and very much dominates the U. S. economy to such a degree, that the richest person in the U. S. has more money than 50% of the U. S. population. Overcoming this campaign of divisiveness will be difficult, as the takeover of the United States by the aristocracy is nearly complete. However, just the awareness of what is going on might be enough, if people spread the word, and resist the propaganda we are being inundated with here. Joseph Goebbels said,"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will." "A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth." "Arguments must therefore be crude, clear, and forcible, and appeal to the emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology." Note that this is identical to the tactics the aristocracy are using in the media, social media, and the news they totally control. Spread the word. Watch "Don't Be A Sucker!" on archive.org, and other media websites.Read full review
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Pie in the Sky's characters just grab you right off the bat and it just builds from the first disc on. The actors are just great and the story line is a nice mix of the leading man building his life on getting ready to and trying retire from the police force - they won't let him go and his starting a new restaurant which is a hit from the start. We only just finished the first disc but I;m sure it will be building from here. Love it! And since I can't be in the UK for real, at least I can think about being there.
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An excellent series in which the dectective catches both the criminal as skillfully as cuisine he cooks in his dream restaurant which struggles to survive in a sea of fast food outlets. Played magnificently by the late Richard Griffiths, Inspector Crabbe yearns to retire but is kept on the force to by his craven superior Fischer to further his own career. A delight in which minor villians are the rule and murder is more a mystery that British dectective series are known before the grittier series took over.
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This series is so much fun and entertaining! DT Henry Crabbe (played by Richard Griffiths) is a character that you always wanted to meet and with whom dinner and cocktails would be a joy. A murder mystery coupled with wonderful characters is what you get. All this is done without excessive violence or use of offensive language. It is not to be missed!
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I love this show, but entertainment is personal. English Dramas have CHARACTER actors not pretty people; I think that's what I love the most. The crimes aren't usually murders, so its more light hearted than typical crime dramas. Make sure if you're in USA that EVERY disc has the number 1 on it for region.
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