Ani Bundel has been blogging professionally since 2010. This is her second major independent site launch. A DC native and Keyboard Khaleesi, she spends all her non-writing time photographing her cats. Regular bylines also found on MSNOW.
Mystery
Last week's Baptiste ended with Stratton being taken by Constantine while Baptiste struggled with the discovery Niels is his son. This week's cold open, as usual, starts with none of that. Instead, there's a completely random (and paranoid) individual buying a whole lot of
Drama
This week's Killing Eve takes on a different format, with each character taking center stage for their part of the narrative that leads to this week's shocking conclusion. It opens with Niko, who we last heard checked himself out of the psych ward and was headed
Mystery
This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries cold open is a reminder that if you talk to a murderer like you're in a cheap dime-store novel while wearing pearls in the bathroom, someone is going to dime-store novel murder you until said pearl necklace breaks.
Culture
Though the COVID-19 social distancing guidelines have started to lift in parts of the US, for many people, staying home and staying safe are still the watchwords for the next month. So what can we watch in British programming over on this side of the pond for some much-needed escapism?
Mystery
At the end of last week's Baptiste, it seemed like both Julien and Celia were in for it, with one trapped in a basement with Stratton and the other about to be a victim of Constantine. Naturally, the cold open leaves both these cliffhangers to wait to neither
Drama
This week's Killing Eve episode opens in Andalusia, where Villanelle is tuning a piano. No, she doesn't play, she's there on assignment, and the owner seems like the kind of unpleasant lady who deserves Villanelle's real skills with a tuning instrument. That
Mystery
This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries opens at another carnival, Biggs Boxing Troupe, as a dead man falls through a poster. The next morning, Collins is over at Fisher's, getting patched up by Dot after a brawl at the boxing gym he's
Drama
Killing Eve's premiere episode concluded with the death of long time hacker sweetheart Kenny. This week's episode picks up outside in the rain, post-funeral, as Eve stands under an awning, wineglass and cigarette in hand. She drops the cig in a puddle, causing a stranger to
Mystery
After last week's wild ending which revealed Natalie Rose alive and Edward Stratton with a head in his basement, this week's Baptiste picks right back up at Natalie's houseboat hideout. Stratton isn't her uncle; he's a client, and an obsessive
Mystery
This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries begins with a stylized cold open of a couple murdered at the ferry at Queenscliff. It's great timing since that's where Miss Fisher is heading right now in her fabulous car, with Prudence, Dot, and Jane
Mystery
Mysteries are a comfort genre. These are soothing stories of the intelligent detective taking a chaotic situation (usually murder most foul) and restoring order by puzzling out the whodunit. In troubled times, readers and viewers turn back to this genre because they want to see smart people using their intelligence
Mystery
Baptiste begins with a cold open in Deal, England, as a beachcombing pensioner arrives home. Apparently, no one told him when a man comes to read the gas meter tossume an assassin, Romanian, in this case, named Constantin (Alec SecΔreanu). This killing is rough enough that there's a