Pasckie Pascua's Nerdy Squirrel Reviews: TV Series.

“The Hardacres” (Britbox) Season 2. British period drama . Beginning in Yorkshire in the 1890s, the series follows the Hardacre family as they rise from poverty to wealth after acquiring a large estate.        Old-school TV pleasure, this is! What was addictive teledrama then is almost forgotten or drowned out by the ferocious counter-culture defiance and political “appropriateness” of today's streaming TV. And how we missed the good old days.         No need to overreact this show though. Just sit tight with pizza and lemonade, and enjoy. 🎥💻📽 “Ten Pound Poms” (Britbox) 2 Seasons. Historical drama about British migrants a.k.a. “ten pound poms” who moved to Australia after World War II in a subsidised migration scheme.        A solid weekend binge-watch delight for one and all. Confident but playing-safe scriptwriting that the tight direction and exemplary ensemble performan...

“The Oldenheim Twelve” (Amazon Prime) Dutch mystery-thriller. Journalist Peggy Jonkers returns to her traditional hometown, where a series of mysterious disappearances terrorizes the community.         Suspense and mystery are the lures or couch-baits of this series. First episode to 4 and 5, the thrill of knowing what's really going on heightens. Until the middle stretch turned slow and boring, as the characters do illogical or implausible turns. And then, the endgame or resolution, which is frustrating given all the clues, suspicions, and probabilities whirling in viewers’ minds.        Anyhow, this series would have been fine in 6 episodes, not 12. But I am alright with the performance of the leads: Noortje Herlaar as Peggy, and Nasrdin Dchar as the detective Sharif Dahmani. 🎥💻📽 “Innate” (Hulu) Spanish psychological crime thriller. After pulling through a traumatic childhood and remaking her life with a new...