Listen I am loving all the shows and movies but am getting a little concerned that the folks in the UK need so many detectives, spies and various secret agents
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It's a well-known fact that over 70% of British people know someone who was murdered because of a long-standing grudge involving either a race horse or a vegetable-growing competition.
Yes, I've been worried about that a long time. London full of murderers I understand, but why a little village like St Mary Mead? Don't travel the UK without a security detail.
Well, the world doesn't control itself, you know?
It has to be nudged along a bit in some sort of way in the British interest. We're also keenly interested in the weather of other countries too, so have launched lots of small sattelites to monitor their weather.
Well, all the aliens live in Idaho now. The entire state is just a giant military and containment base for all the aliens. They live, work, go to school; and the military personnel do the same. They are there to protect & assist. It seems to work well. 🤣😅
Every small village needs a good detective/little old lady/random loner man. If you've a population of 100 or less you can guarantee at least 3 murders a week!
It's not just the UK... We export the problem to the tiny island of Saint Marie where there are only about forty people and several get killed each week.
I’m there for the yarn and wool too (in Shetland), but it’s not featured as much. I think I did watch a few episodes of Death in Paradise, but I prefer the grittiness of Shetland. I’ll give it another try though.
I guess what appeals to me about the British shows is that a lot of them take place in quaint villages for that “the location is almost a character” vibe. Like Grantchester.
Yeah. And for a country that boasts so many Super Smart detectives, spies and secret agents, have you noticed not a single one of them is smart enough to get into a car on the driver's side or drive on the right side of the road?
I mean. Come on!
Haha, right? It’s like every corner in the UK has a secret agent on standby! Maybe that’s why everyone drinks so much tea — they’re debriefing after missions! ☕😅 Keep watching… you never know when you might get recruited!
did you ever watch wire in the blood? it was really good, at least as i remember it, but the funny part they were in a small town, and had like 6 to 8 serials killer caught per year, like half the population at some point should have been either a killer or a victim.
I'm not surprised. In the Midsomer County alone, "there have been more than 388 murders, 423 deaths in total and an additional 250 attempted murders or suicides."
If you've ever watched Midsummer Murders you will quickly realize that in a village of about 50 people there are regular murders and the police are extremely busy every week.
All the spy movies are amusing. I think it's a holdover from the empire days that they believe so many people are after all those British secrets, like how to make an unreliable automobile, or how to support multiple right wing "news" papers.
It’s the UK. The most camera dense and state watching you in the world. The cops don’t need guns because there’s so many of them. And this is what they let you know about. The secret stuff is way spicier 😱
Literally watching Mrs. Sindhi Investigates because the new episode of Shetland isn’t streaming yet, I can’t get into the new/last season of Vera and I’m burned out on Miss Scarlet 🫣
I was born & raised in the UK.
Brits have been obsessed with mysteries since Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White 1860, often hailed as the first great mystery novel.
Personally I prefer that to the fixation on serial killers and horrific murders but I'm a gentle soul.
As a former spy and newly qualified detective I have to say that it is a rough market for us. Had to outcompete 2 former alien hunters, one retired MI6 agent and a stage magician with a beautiful, but unconventional mind for a simple cheating spouse case.
after The Fall, Marcella and finishing Missing You last night, where serial killing was only tangential to the main plot, I really did think “damn, those mf be KILLIN killin”
There are so many secret agents and police officers having clandestine meetings in London's parks and gardens that the squirrels have been driven onto the street.🐿
Exactly! By the time the detective finally solves the case, half the village is gone! At this point, I’m convinced moving to a UK village is more dangerous than living in an action movie. 😂
I know right? Ever seen Death in Paradise? It's like 13 seasons and there's a murder per show and they're on an island with like 2 towns and 20,000 people total.
Have you seen the FBI shows on thwarted terrorist attacks? FBI can be an amazing group of brave, talented people! NYC had a very close call that didn’t make the news til later!
These little towns with so many murders they engage the vicar for help, well, it’s astounding. I am watching a French crime program (more dead bodies in Paris), streaming on PBS. Astrid. Excellent.
I think that so many people have watched these shows being presented that they see it as reality. They crave the drama and the action that they are missing in their reality, so it’s no wonder that they vote in a madman.
Really, in a way the UK was the canary in the coal mine for what was to come. The companies that bought you Trump did their major testing in the Brexit vote. So it might be national pathology or just catharsis for what needs to happen rather than what is happening?
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/runs and hides
"Yankee detectives are always on the TV
Those killers in America work 7 days a week"
It has to be nudged along a bit in some sort of way in the British interest. We're also keenly interested in the weather of other countries too, so have launched lots of small sattelites to monitor their weather.
Except Benedict Cumberpatch, he's ... special.
...as you were.
Well I am so glad someone finally told me
The town I live in has over 7000 spies.
And that is a fact.
Think like the pentagon crossed with National Security Agency
I knew Shetland quite well in my distant youth: it was not noted for its many weird and terrifying murders.
I mean. Come on!
They get in on the wrong side.
They get in the the right side!
They need all the detectives they can get!
Must be really difficult to sell homes there.
Brits have been obsessed with mysteries since Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White 1860, often hailed as the first great mystery novel.
Personally I prefer that to the fixation on serial killers and horrific murders but I'm a gentle soul.
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America has WAY more crime procedurals than we do.