Pasckie Pascua's Nerdy Squirrel Reviews: TV Series.

“The Capture” (Amazon Prime) Season 1. British mystery thriller . Deals with the terrifying, modern-day dangers of AI, deepfakes, and manipulated surveillance footage.         Storyline: After his conviction for a war crime in Afghanistan is overturned on appeal, former British army Lance Corporal Shaun Emery finds himself accused of kidnapping and murdering his barrister Hannah Roberts, backed by CCTV evidence. Whilst Emery works to clear his name, fast-tracked Detective Inspector (DI) Rachel Carey of Homicide and Serious Crime Command begins to uncover a complex conspiracy surrounding Emery, calling into question the validity of the footage.        The timely subject offers a binge-watch allure and it didn’t disappoint. Although the characters are pretty much cliches, Holliday Grainger as lead cop Rachel Carey and Lia Williams as cool villainous DSU Gemma Garland manage to inject their individual charm ...

“Dark Winds” (Netflix) Season 3. Crime thriller based on the Leaphorn & Chee novel series by Tony Hillerman . The series follows three Navajo Tribal Police officers, Joe Leaphorn , Bernadette Manuelito, and Jim Chee , in the 1970s Four Corners area of the American Southwest .         With George R. R. Martin and Robert Redford as co-Executive Producers, this engaging series banks on the lead anchor of Zahn McClarnon as Joe Leaphorn . Cool, composed and sans the macho bravado of most starring roles, Zahn keeps the story alive and thrills low-key but nevertheless, engaging.         Season 3 follows Joe, Jim, and Bernadette in 1971, six months after Season 2. The plot centers on the search for two missing Navajo boys, a conspiracy involving border patrol, and a drug-smuggling operation that threatens to destroy the community, while Leaphorn battles personal grief and haunting, almost supernatural, t...

“Happy Valley” (Britbox) British crime drama , focusing on Catherine Cawood, a dedicated police sergeant in West Yorkshire dealing with personal trauma while fighting local crime.        This series won the 2015 BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series , and won another BAFTA for Best Drama for the second series.        Drawn from the astonishing script by Sally Wainwright and Sarah Lancashire's magnificent performance, this 3-season series could be in the Top 5 of my Best TV Series of all time. Some critics saw the opposite as in “cliché-ridden” and “blokey police procedurals" but that'd be their frigid “correctness” talking. The wicked realness of “Happy Valley” is unquestionable to men 🎥👍📽 “Karen Pirie” (Amazon Prime) British crime drama , based on the Inspector Karen Pirie series of novels by Val McDermid .         In the first series, a young detective sergeant , Karen Pirie, ...

“Riot Women” (Britbox) British series. Five women come together in Hebden Bridge to create a makeshift punk-rock band to enter a local talent contest but, in writing their first song, soon discover that they are all very angry about the way society treats women and that they have a lot to say.         Creator, writer and executive producer Sally Wainwright hits the right buttons and mixes the apt ingredients in giving us a delightful series. The intensity of the drama doesn't muddle the comic and witty intimacy of the sequences. And the ensemble performance is A-1 elite. Fierce, upfront, alluring. 🎥👍📽 “Obituary” (Hulu) 2 Seasons. Irish black comedy . A young woman obsessed with death becomes an obituarist for the local newspaper. The major reason why I clicked/watched this series is Siobhán Cullen . After I saw her in another Irish dark comedy, “Dobkin,” as the dreary but earnest and darkly alluring journalist Dubheasa Maloney, I knew I would...