Do we need a book, a cozy crime?

A silhouette on a danger wallpaper. A sweet transistor radio that plays light jazz. A woman slips into the sofa – no, wait – she is pulled onto the floor, the seams of her nylons disappear into the shadow. Sedation, kidnapping and murder may never look tastier or sounded.

In our world of constant, immediately accessible horror, the television planners turn more than ever – to apologize while I have Knebel – cozy crimes. I understand it. TV viewers are human. We long for shocks that activate our fight instincts, our primitive self. It is simply that gentler versions are more beautiful when the news cycle is all catastrophe, fascism and genocide.

In Uktv's cozy crime Network (and available for subscribers from now TV), Bookish presents itself more necessary than MurderS, s, Death in paradise and the latest BBC Sunday evening -Hit Death Valley. It plays in a strangely shiny mail was London, in which Mark Gatiss plays the irritating named Gabriel book that operates an antiquarian bookstore. Polly Walker plays his wife Trottie, a shoulder -clad, old dream that runs the wallpaper shop next door. Outside of work, they help the police to solve crimes, although it is not clear why. We also slowly find that your marriage is wrapped in the secret for other reasons.

The first episode is slow. We are guided around the world by newcomer Jack (Connor Finch), a flat cap-cap-bearing Mini Eddie Redmayne with eyes like Sapphire. He gets a job in the shop even though he tries to localize him (not because he is illiterate: he finds the apostropher in the name of the business, bookbooks, understandably challenging). He is then brought to a crime scene that reveals itself as previously undiscovered plague pit.

When the police officer at the crime scene and questioned who Jack was, while another officer encouraged the deductions of the amateurs, my TV recall of the siren started. In the first episode of the BBC there is a very similar setup SherlockTogether from Gatiss. Why change a winning formula?

We are then convicted of suicide that could possibly be a murder. Mounting the effects of war on the city give the plot a fascinating texture. But what the cozy crime really does is the characters that lead it. In the first episodes, the Camp Pedantry by Gabriel Book clearly aims at David Sucher's reading of Poirot in the classic ITV series that ran for 24 years. However, his bon-moped “loose lips drop slips” feel stubborn. Trotties sexy matriarch is a much more fascinating figure, and the part -time book dealer Nora (Biege Kömerür) is even better. All Quickfire Wit, she makes the screen shimmer every time it appears.

Bookish presents itself more necessary than Midsomer Morde, Death in Paradise and The Sunday Night Hit Death Valley

To this day and more than 5,000 miles west to the Yosemite National Park, where – surprise! – There is still a mysterious death to examine. Unsamed is Netflix's latest brooding, US set drama, although Australian and New Zealand actors lead it. Eric Bana, 22 years after playing the Hulk, is 56 and in his moody Silverfox era. He plays Surly National Parks Special Agent Kyle Turner, a man from his happiest when he crosses the wilderness on a horse. Sam Neill clearly plays in his friendly era Paul Souter, his boss.

Written by Mark L Smith (screenwriter of The Revenant And Twister ) and Elle Smith, this is the type of show that was made for huge, wall mounted screens. Cragy Landscapes form and pain, while the opening climbing scene of Episode One is not for the acrophobic. Turner suddenly has the death of a young woman in his hands and he has a rookie agent, Naya Vasquez (played by Sparky Lily Santiago) to work. Yes, there are clichés here, but Santiago brings a welcome ease into the role.

There are also some brave visual tricks. A phrase late in the opener is made beautiful, as well as jump cuts between Turner's exploration and the last moments of the victim. Do he imagine or does the park show its own memories? If the series further plow these deeper, stranger furrows, it can work.

Mix adhesive tape is a summer romance in Sheffield and Sydney. This is followed by the forty -year -old music journalist Daniel O'Toole (Jim Sturgess), who reminded the first love of his life, Alison Connor (Teresa Palmer) after his best friend learned her success as a writer. Here is a generation of X-Eer in the middle of life that still writes about art and culture and tries to defend their life decisions. Ouch.

Scenes slide and slide easily between the present and the past when we learn about every character. Alison's complex background story gradually unfolds. Once in Australia, she is concerned with her literary agent on a park bench and observes how children play football. A pipe blows and she is a teenager at school who refers to a young Daniel (a temporary Rory Walton-Smith) who misses a goal. Florence Hunt, who plays the young Alison, has the crackling and appearance of a star.

In the postNormal people Era of more explicit romantic dramas, Mix adhesive tape Feels old-fashioned, sweet and slightly clever, as a striped bag with lemon serbets. Nevertheless, I liked the close-ups of spherical shoes, which were scattered on inlay cards and bedroom floors with C90s (under 35 years of age, ask your parents).

Despite the chunky dialogue, unlikely points of action (we certainly all made friends with our teenagers on Facebook almost 20 years ago?) And there are too many shots of people who look into the distance, there are some nice subtle details. The connections between his situation and the relationship of his parents slowly appear. And Alison's husband is definitely not marking her indie boy by singing mentally when it lived from Craze Festival in 1985 from 1985.

Jude Rogers' observation list

Human (bbc two)

This ambitious new BBC/PBS co-production, which is organized by the dedicated British Paleoanthropologist Ella al-Shamahi (below), leads us “behind the curtain of evolution” and fills us with the latest science.

Hai! Prominent water (ITVX)

It sounds like a fever program for the Alan Partridge program with a title that implies that the toothfish should be more afraid of the stars. But this bizarre show comes to life thanks to lovable participants like Lucy Punch (Amandaland) and Lenny Henry.

The large British sewing bee

(BBC One)

Sara Pascoe returns from maternity leave (another task that includes “work, love and careful sewing” to organize the 11th series of the warmest show of the television device, which effortlessly guru Patrick Grant and designer Esme Young.

Photos by Nicolas Velter; Netflix