Rickster

Interesting. We’re 3 episodes in and think it’s vastly better than the first season.

Not a bad guess. Having seen the final episode, I am really annoyed at the spy subplot. It was as if they needed enough plot to fill 6 episodes and came up with a wacky idea to fill it. I never bought the idea of the wealthy Swedish couple hanging out on Shetland to begin with. Then to layer in all the spy stuff and Euan and the flashbacks, then to suddenly drop it. On the other hand, the impetus for the killing seemed to come out of left field to me, but possibly I wasn’t paying enough attention in the earlier episodes. The final scene seemed to cement that this is now the Ruth and Tosh show, with Sandy running in with new CCTV footage once an episode.

I think you’re right. I looked at the list of books and “Mephisto Waltz” was the final one in the series, however the plot seems different than what we’re watching.

A little research seems to show the series was adapted from a series of books and they have reached the end of them (unless they skipped a book in the middle). I guess they would have to start writing original scripts to keep it going and maybe it was not successful enough to do that. I’m sorry to see it end. It was a nice change to all the British based mystery dramas on PBS.

We’re three episodes in and really enjoying it, so far.

Having finally caught up through episode 4, one other thing that struck me as odd writing was that they were able to get a record of Bergen's phone calls, yet the record didn't show that he called Annie Betts on the night they were killed, and the police had to find that out from Noah that she picked him up? I am also not happy that this has become the Ruth and Tosh show. I'd prefer a bit more of an ensemble approach.

While this is an entertaining show to watch, the structure bothers me. It seems the winner gets chosen at random, purely based on the way categories are played. Periodic Table guy had to play twice, if I’m not mistaken. If I’m watching to see someone win $250,000, I want to see some dominance in knowledge, not just a lucky roll of the dice.

I could be wrong, but I know the first few seasons were based on the books but I thought at some point the series veered off into independent plots. Certainly Jimmy Perez is in all the books. I know I started one of the early books (Red Bones) a while ago and couldn’t get into it having already seen the show.

The meat tenderizer has a flat side and a pointy side. At least some of the blows were with the flat side. I did think it odd that Elsbeth looked in the dishwasher and saw the tenderizer, but it never came up again in the show. Maybe a plot point they chose to delete?

I think North Dakota and South Dakota would be pretty difficult too. I’d give someone about half a dozen states that could be confusing, but he couldn’t even identify New York. I would have done pretty well on state flags too, until they got to those nearly identical blue ones with a seal in the middle.

In the US market, Britbox says the next season is “coming later in 2024”.

I liked the last few episodes, but the twist of the older woman almost keeping Tara a prisoner seemed out of left field.

I can’t put my finger on it either, but WOF has fallen off our must watch schedule over the past month. And it still follows our appointment TV of Jeopardy on the same channel! Sometimes we watch it but often we don’t.

My fuzzy recollection is that the letters weren’t in the book, at least not explicitly talked about. Haven’t seen the episode yet.

Unless she’s next season’s victim…..