An American streaming-video service (not Netflix) has signed a contract with the German folks who produce the series 'Tatort'.....to air roughly 250 of the 1,000-plus episodes they've made of the series (since the 1980s).
I would imagine English sub-titles will be used.
What of the series? Well....in the first three minutes of each episode....there's a murder, and it's left dangling over who did it.
So there are various detectives from each major city who get the call, and investigate.
Some of these (I will admit) are crap. Some are actually five-star.
The Munester-team (Professor-Doctor Boerne and Detective Thiel) are a duo who have a comic prospective and I'd rate their shows at the five-star level. There's currently 43 of their films in the 'bucket'.
The Kiel-crew (Detective Borowski and Detective Brandt) make some pretty interesting films (total of 39).
The Wiesbaden-shows? Detective Murot. If you were looking for weird twists and turns....it's five star.
I've probably watched in the neighborhood of 150 of the 90-minute murder series and will agree there are serious losers in the bunch, but 20-percent will shock you on quality of the script.
So if you see the streaming-service chatty about having added 'Tatort'.....yeah, it's probably worth signing up.
The most shocking show? They did an episode where blood was at a scene, but no body, and were convinced for 85 minutes that a murder had occurred. In the final five minutes, they discover the supposed dead guy was still alive, and the whole effort to find the murderer and body....was totally wasted. Then the chief suspect is all angry/upset about faked-up murder.....that he actually does murder the fake-dead guy.
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