Looking for Something New to Watch?

So much for my thinking that I had a lot to do in the way of year-end posting ... The British TV blog The Killing Times last week delivered a four-part wrap-up of what it maintains were “The Top 20 Crime Dramas of the Year.” Some of its picks, such as Paris Police 1900 and Craith (Hidden), haven’t yet made it to the States—at least so far as I know—but I look forward to catching up soon with others. You will find The Killing Times’ series here, here, here, and here.

Meanwhile, the same Web site clues its readers in on what new or returning shows they can watch in 2022. Of the dozens of programs mentioned in that “super-hefty, super-absorbent” preview, I’m hoping most to see Our House, with Tuppence Middleton and Martin Compston; The White House Plumbers (“the true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt [Woody Harrelson] and G. Gordon Liddy [Justin Theroux], accidentally toppled the presidency they were trying to protect”); Kristin Bell’s Netflix thriller, The Woman in the Street; The Magpie Murders, adapted from Anthony Horowitz’s novel of that same title; Hugh Laurie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Alice Evans?; and course, Series 3 of Happy Valley, Series 3 of Macdonald & Dodds, and Series 11 of Death in Paradise, the last of which served my wife and I so well as an escape from the negative news of the world in 2021.

Not being a big TV watcher, I’ll resist committing myself further.