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The Mountain Detective (2018)
Spectacular mountain scenery
After watching the first six episodes on Prime,, I'm ready to watch season 2. To be honest, two shows in season 1 were pretty awful and had a totally different feeling, but the other episodes were so good I stuck with it. The basic premise is that the lead character was an urban cop in Marseille and had his fill of the city life, particularly as it pertained to his line of work. He and his new colleagues at the extremely casual rural police station are quite believable and dedicated get neither respect nor cooperation from the citizenry, but the keep plugging away. For viewers who aren't quite fluent in French, most characters in the series speak fairly clearly and free of difficult regional dialects.
Der Pass (2018)
Great series
It's a new spin on an old favorite The Bridge with the alpine border between Germany and Austria in place of the Orebro Bridge. Would have been even more enjoyable in the original Bavarian and Austrian dialects with English subtitles, but at the moment it is unfortunately airing on Plex with a most annoying robo-dubbed audio track with totally unsuitable voices. Halfway through episode 2, I turned the audio completely off and used the English-only captions. I will rewatch the whole series again in the future whenever it airs with the original audio. The lead actress Julia Jentsch was excellent and her Austrian counterpart was too, but the silly dubbing masked his Viennese Schmaeh.
The Truth About Youth (1930)
Loretta Young carries it!
The production is stagebound and stiff like other early talkies based on plays, but teenager Young is so good it's worth watching. TCM has a very good video transfer, even the audio isn't bad for a 1930 film.
The Professor (2018)
Boring, vacuous, pompous, disappointing.
Neither funny nor heartbreaking. Only annoying. Depp does his best trying to breath some life into a flat, unsympathetic character.