COVIDIAN VIEWING REVIEWS

AFTER LIFE- a British drama/comedy starring Ricky Gervais is a very well written and scripted 2 season series about a writer for a small newspaper in London who recently lost his wife. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this because the language is so incredibly foul and profane. The main character is an atheist and tries to fix his emotional and personal crisis with good works and finding love at home and in the work place. EUREKA- is a series that originally aired on the Scifi channel about a single parent sheriff who presides over a small town in the Norwest inhabited by the most intelligent scientist in the world who work at a super-secret defense research facility. The acting is lack luster, but the story lines are entertaining and fanciful. WAREHOUSE 13 is about a secret government storage area that houses powerful and usually magical artifacts that are cared for by a semi-dysfunctional group of agents and somewhat grumpy obese Jewish supervisor. The fairly written series is a combination of scifi and comedy. MID SOMMER MURDERS- an incredibly well written long running British TV series centers around a married chief inspector and his usually comedic sidekick assistant that investigates murders in a rural English township and it’s surrounding areas. The plots are intelligent and unpredictable. Character development throughout the series is sophisticated and detailed. A must see. MURDOCH MYSTERIES is about a devoutly Catholic inspector who works murders in turn of the century Toronto. His boss is a comical salty Scotsman. His love interest is a female physician who serves as the city coroner. Different important historical characters weave in and out of episodes throughout the series. Unfortunately, liberal, humanist themes are woven in to a number of episodes. Despite this, it is worth watching. FATHER BROWN is a British production mystery series based on the GK Chesterton book series of the same name. It centers around a Roman Catholic priest in a rural English parish who, despite opposition by the local police force, is a reliable amateur sleuth. In the course of solving the mystery, he often promotes Christian and semi-Christian virtues and practices. THE DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES is an Australian crime series that takes place in the country town of Ballarat Australia. Dr Blake returns home after serving in WWII to take over his deceased father’s practice. In addition to serving as a GP, he acts as the local police surgeon. He is an agnostic, but has a love interest who is a devout Catholic widow.