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After the tragic death of her husband, detective Sofia Karppi moves back to Finland, only to be confronted with a mysterious case shortly after her return - a woman is found buried in a new development - wrapped in plastic and with flowers on her chest .

Together with her colleague Sakarai Nurmi, she uncovers many mysterious factors during the investigation - how big is the conspiracy behind the murder of Anna Bergdahl?

Right at the beginning of the series, one thing struck me as particularly negative and that was the main character.

In my opinion, Sofia Karppi is extremely unsympathetic and selfish. It complicates the investigation far more than it advances it.

Unfortunately, there is also the fact that the characters in this series all seem to have strong mood swings and can completely change their emotional state and opinion from one scene to the next.

Unfortunately, many of the characters also seem very fake due to the superficial acting.

Also, the series is riddled with bad visual effects - be it a scene that was clearly shot against a green screen but the exposure wasn't adjusted, or really ridiculously badly edited photos.

If you overlook all this and don't look at the series analytically, but just let it sink in, it's all right. It creates an averagely exciting atmosphere throughout and binds the viewer with unexpected twists.

Actually, the Grim Reaper only came to take a hamster to the afterlife - but there he meets the neighbor children Billy (the hamster's owner) and Mandy. They make a bet with the Grim Reaper. If the Grim Reaper wins, he gets to take the hamster with him, but if the kids win, the hamster gets to stay and commits to staying with Billy and Mandy forever and becoming their servant. Full of confidence, the Grim Reaper accepts the offer without even thinking about it. He loses the bet, of course, and so begins his personal hell and with it the show.

Billy and Mandy couldn't be more different.

Mandy is an intelligent and quite scary girl who gets annoyed with everything and everyone.

Billy is a completely wacky and completely idiotic boy who boasts a proud -5 IQ.

Both live in the tranquil town of Endsville, which they and the Grim Reaper not only terrorize once - be it on purpose or accidentally because something went wrong again.

The cartoon series is tailored to children and the jokes are logically rather shallow and childish, but the series made me laugh a lot even at 21 years old.

The dubbing voices are also excellently appropriate here. I especially liked Billy's.

The drawing style is typical of a cartoon.

All in all, you get everything you would expect from a children's series. No more and no less.

"The Boys" looks behind the well-known beautiful facade of superhero existence. In this world, protecting the city and its citizens is not the top priority for superheroes, but marketing themselves.

A handful of people who know about the dirty business of superheroes and harbor a grudge against them band together to put the superheroes in their place. This group later became known as "The Boys".

What is noticeable quite quickly and can possibly also have a shocking effect on the viewers, who don't know what they are getting into, is that "The Boys" is very macabre. Death is often used as a means of comedy.

The series also doesn't stop at depicting very unusual scenes and situations. Be it that it is shown in great detail and realistically how a person is practically torn apart alive or that sexual intercourse is depicted in an almost unpleasantly detailed and absurd way.

Foul language is also considered good manners here.

That's why many will probably already suspect - "The Boys" is far from a family series.

But that's what makes the series so special - in today's world, when every production is hellbent on being as politically correct as possible and keeping its age rating as low as possible in order to reach the widest possible audience, "The Boys" is very refreshing. As disgusted as I was at times, the special effects team must be commended for doing their job beyond outstanding! And even if you might suspect that now, "The Boys" doesn't do the opposite either. Also, not every scene is portrayed as absurd and grotesque as possible just to make it seem particularly brutal and absurd. A very good balance has been found here.

Personally, I have to say that I was already used to softened productions and was therefore often shocked by what this series dared to do. But that's also what makes her so funny.

Nevertheless, "The Boys" still manages to pack all of this into a nerve-wracking story that practically glues the viewer to the screen.

Finally, the damn good acting has to be emphasized as well. Antony Starr in particular plays his role as Homelander almost too well. But the other roles like Billy Butcher with Karl Urban, Hughie Campell with Jack Quadid or Annie January aka "Starlight" with Erin Moriarty have all been cast extremely well.

I only have to criticize that the story development in the 3rd season seemed a bit sluggish to me.

But I'm more than excited and hyped for the 4th season!

"Godless" makes a very good first impression.

The scenes look convincing.

The CGI is also acceptable.

Special effects are also not neglected here.

The cinematography, which produces really excellent images over the course of the series, is also very good.

It quickly becomes clear that the cast also has a lot of skills. In particular, Jeff Daniels as Frank Griffin plays his role with full conviction and was rightly rewarded with an Emmy.

Personally, however, the writing didn't convince me as much as the cosmetics of the series and its actors.

Far too often the show drifts away from its main story and gets lost in uninteresting subplots. Even the length of 7 episodes felt excruciatingly long.

Originally it would only have been a 6/10 from me, but because the series is outstanding in terms of setting and camera work, it deserves an extra point.

"The Millionaire Detective" tells the story of two detectives who couldn't be more different. Kato is down-to-earth and honest, while Kambe is the heir to an extremely wealthy family whose bank balance is "unlimited".

The anime is pretty average in my opinion.

I liked a few things, but there were also things that struck me as rather negative.

I'll start with the positive aspects: First of all, the anime has a very beautiful and unique drawing style. The character design is also very positive.

The plot twist at the end also surprised me, even if it's not really the best.

I've read a lot of reviews that are also positive about the animation, but I can't really agree with that. The animation isn't bad, but it's not incredibly good either. It just serves its purpose.

On the one hand, the negative aspects for me are the English dubbing, because it often just sounded flat and monotonous. The anime was also too short with 11 episodes. They should have taken more episodes to deepen the relationship between Kato and Kambe. Because it wasn't that deep, some scenes seemed overly emotional.

But all in all, the anime is worth watching.

"The Boys" looks behind the well-known beautiful facade of superhero existence. In this world, protecting the city and its citizens is not the top priority for superheroes, but marketing themselves.

A handful of people who know about the dirty business of superheroes and harbor a grudge against them band together to put the superheroes in their place. This group later became known as "The Boys".

What is noticeable quite quickly and can possibly also have a shocking effect on the viewers, who don't know what they are getting into, is that "The Boys" is very macabre. Death is often used as a means of comedy.

The series also doesn't stop at depicting very unusual scenes and situations. Be it that it is shown in great detail and realistically how a person is practically torn apart alive or that sexual intercourse is depicted in an almost unpleasantly detailed and absurd way.

Foul language is also considered good manners here.

That's why many will probably already suspect - "The Boys" is far from a family series.

But that's what makes the series so special - in today's world, when every production is hellbent on being as politically correct as possible and keeping its age rating as low as possible in order to reach the widest possible audience, "The Boys" is very refreshing. As disgusted as I was at times, the special effects team must be commended for doing their job beyond outstanding! And even if you might suspect that now, "The Boys" doesn't do the opposite either. Also, not every scene is portrayed as absurd and grotesque as possible just to make it seem particularly brutal and absurd. A very good balance has been found here.

Personally, I have to say that I was already used to softened productions and was therefore often shocked by what this series dared to do. But that's also what makes her so funny.

Nevertheless, "The Boys" still manages to pack all of this into a nerve-wracking story that practically glues the viewer to the screen.

Finally, the damn good acting has to be emphasized as well. Antony Starr in particular plays his role as Homelander almost too well. But the other roles like Billy Butcher with Karl Urban, Hughie Campell with Jack Quadid or Annie January aka "Starlight" with Erin Moriarty have all been cast extremely well.

I only have to criticize that the story development in the 3rd season seemed a bit sluggish to me.

But I'm more than excited and hyped for the 4th season!

In short, "Alice in Borderland" is a very strong series with a lot of potential, which in my opinion only has small points of criticism - but more on that later.

First of all, I would like to rate the style of the series in general, because this particularly stood out for me in this series.

What immediately catches your eye is the grandiose camera work. Whoever was responsible for this did a really excellent job. Anyway, the way the camera captures the events was a big motivation for me to continue watching the series and the main reason why my attention really didn't let up for a moment.

I have to give another compliment to the scenes. Be it the backdrops for the games, "The Beach" or the city. All the backdrops look really convincing and grandiose. Also, the CGI backdrops were so well done that you could hardly tell they weren't real.

I would also like to emphasize the grandiose effects of the series. Apparently, Asian productions still use "real" special effects instead of doing them on the computer, which is actually the norm these days. But it's definitely worth it. The effects look much more realistic than effects from larger budget productions.

Finally, you just have to say again that the actors sometimes played their roles really convincingly. Of course there is a bit of overacting here and there, but that's completely normal in Asian productions, because emotions are always portrayed a bit more exaggerated.

Coming back to the actual story, I have to say that I really liked it too. The cast was made up of many different personalities who all complement each other well. I didn't feel like any character was superfluous in any way.

Unfortunately, I have to say that the mystery of the series doesn't make much sense when you think about it. At least that's my feeling.

But the series is good anyway.

I would also like to remind everyone who compares this series to "Squid Game" that this concept of imprisoning "players" and then having them fight each other in life and death games is nothing new and in Japan, especially in manga and anime area has often been implemented in various modifications.

Just a few examples are "Danganronpa", "Darwin's Game" or "Tomodachi Game".

"Guardian of the Spirit" primarily convinces with animations that were pretty good for the time. The story of the anime is not extremely imaginative, but it still tells an exciting and interesting story. What I particularly liked about the anime was how the characters' relationships with each other grew closer and closer as the story progressed. The relationship also develops at a comfortable pace without rushing anything.

A big point of criticism that I have, however, is that the story is told extremely slowly, so that I got really bored at times. The number of episodes could easily have been halved in my opinion and the anime would have been more enjoyable to watch.

"The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes" is without a doubt not a bad documentary.

Dahmer's unbelievable and terrible deeds are described very well in the documentary and the effects of these deeds on the society of the time are also quite clear.

What definitely enhances the documentary series is that we get to hear recordings of Dahmer here that had never been made available to the public until the release of this documentary.

But I have to say I'm just not a fan of how the documentary is structured. I still don't understand why a documentary decides to keep jumping back and forth between different points in time. I think this is just confusing.

Fear of germs, elevators, heights, snakes and even milk are just a fraction of the 312(!) phobias Adrian Monk claims to have.

Mr. Monk has been an oddball all his life, as we'll learn time and time again throughout the series, but he's been gifted with an incredibly good power of observation.

For this reason he works as a consultant for the police in San Francisco.

He was also a police officer himself, but was fired from the service after the murder of his wife and his subsequent nervous breakdown.

His wife's murder is the only case in his entire career that Monk just can't solve.

"Monk" has found the perfect actor for its main character in Tony Shalhoub and he rightly received several awards for his portrayal of the neurotic private detective.

The secondary characters complement his character and the world around it perfectly - which makes everything look very harmonious.

In addition, the writing team has done more than excellent work here. Of course, not every case is extremely exciting, but that's hardly possible with over 100 episodes. Nevertheless, in most cases you rack your brains and keep asking yourself what just happened. Often one is only redeemed at the end of the episode by Monk's catch phrase "here's what happened", whereupon he then explains who the culprit is and how he did it.

All in all, "Monk" is a really good crime/comedy series that offers the viewer many exciting but also funny hours of entertainment.

Josh and Emily are now in their 30s and as the years go by they come with many challenges. Like raising their daughter Candice, financial struggles, living in a shared apartment or even the simple reality that they will never live their dream life.

I had a lot of fun watching "Close Enough" - of course some episodes were better than others, but all in all I have to say that the series made me laugh a lot and you can clearly see how much love there is in here.

It makes me all the sadder that the series was canceled after its 3rd season, because I clearly see a lot of potential here!

What a bummer...

Difficult family relationships, trust issues and everyone is corrupt - that's how "Suburra" can be summed up quickly.

I approached the series with expectations that unfortunately weren't met. I was looking forward to an exciting Italian mafia series and I got an extremely long-winded one, with characters that hardly develop and are played by actors who apparently only attended drama school for a visit.

If you don't care about a very slow series with acting at a rather low level, you can definitely spend your hours here, but I definitely wouldn't recommend the series for anyone, who wants to have fun, because the series barely has any highlights.

One day, a well-known singer is found dead in her pool. Her hair is shaved off and she has cuts in both armpits and in the genital area.

Who committed this gruesome act? And what about the modus operandi of the murder?

"Parfum" is based on the novel "Perfume" written by Patrick Süskind in 1985.

So the series had a very good premise that it just had to implement well.

Unfortunately, I don't think that happened at all.

The basic idea of the implementation is quit good, but other factors just didn't add up.

For example, the script is just plain cruel. The dialogues are very flat and seem extremely monotonous.

Also, the characters have extreme mood swings. One moment characters are killing each other and the next moment everything is fine again.

Another problem is that the actors here probably wanted to appear "mysterious" and therefore spoke more quietly, but many of them start mumbling extremely, so that I often just didn't understand what was being said and I sometimes even got subtitles had to turn on.

However, the actors aren't bad and most play their roles with conviction, but unfortunately they suffer from the bad script.

One fateful day, all of humanity is mysteriously turned to stone.

Without humans, planet earth reverts to a primitive state.

Thousands of years later, the science-obsessed high school student "Senku Ishigami" suddenly awakens from his petrifaction and vows to return the world and its civilization to the way they were before.

"Dr. Stone" tells an unprecedented story and is therefore difficult to assign to a genre or to compare it with other animes. I found this idea and its story really exciting.

In addition, the anime even has a certain learning effect if you get involved.

I also really liked the character design, even if many of the characters were written in a rather monotonous and flat way.

"The Most Hated Man on the Internet" reports on a website which was then operated by Hunter Moore.

On the site, anyone could upload erotic pictures of themselves or anyone else (ex-partners in most cases) at any time. And that's not all. In addition to the revealing pictures, the person's Facebook profile was often posted.

Hunter Moore made a name for himself with it and had a huge following who would do anything for their 5 minutes of internet celebrity.

The documentary is very well done.

Interviews with victims of Hunter, law enforcement, journalists, and even those close to Hunter at the time are included.

Most of the story is told from the perspective of Charlotte Laws - the mother of one of the victims who made it her mission to stop Hunter and take down his website.

The documentary is very interesting, but also very depressing because of the stories of the victims and nauseating because of Hunter Moore and his testimonies.

Personally, this documentary made me think how cruel such a site would be again nowadays.

Today the internet is much bigger and things spread much faster.

Hard to imagine how much damage such a site would cause today.

But as already said, the documentary is very well done and with its 3 hours running time, good for one evening, but I recommend: have your puke bags ready.

"Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day" told a touching story about a group of friends who were broken up in childhood by the death of one of them and are now brought together by spirit to give her their last wish fulfill and they can thus bid farewell to the world.

I think the character design is very well done.

The story is relatively predictable, but that's OK, because the emotional component is more important here and it succeeds excellently.

Normally I am not a very emotional person, but I really liked this anime and was happy with the way it turned out.

So watch it, but if you are a emotional person, you will probably cry a lot.

His family drives Michael Bluth to despair: his father George is in custody for fraud. His mother Lucille thinks only of the damaged image of the family. His older brother, Gob, is such an unsuccessful wizard that even the Mages Union threw him out. Younger brother Buster is 30 and still a mama's boy. Then there's his sister Lindsay, who is in a bizarre marriage to ex-psychiatrist and untalented actor Dr. Tobias Funke leads.

"Arrested Development" offers hours of good entertainment due to very funny humor and good actors.

The revival of the series in 2013 felt a lot more like necrophilia and wasn't pretty to look at.

"Seven Seconds" tells the tragic story of a police officer who accidentally catches a black teenager on his bike on the way to the hospital.

However, his colleagues, who arrive shortly afterwards, advise him to cover it all up, because otherwise his career would be at an end.

This results in an excellently exciting story that shows racism and errors in the judicial system well.

The acting performance here also picks up the viewer.

The ending just gives the whole story even more meaning and leaves the viewer with his thoughts.

Watch the series if you are interested in a good drama.

You will not regret it, I bet.

In a world where supernatural beings dwell among humans, young high school student Akihito Kanbara leads a pretty normal life by his standards. Because even if he looks like a human being at first glance, he too belongs in the world of the supernatural. Akihito is a half youmu, a being that grants him the ability to regenerate wounds so quickly that he is immortal. One day he sees that a young girl is about to throw herself off the school roof. But he successfully stops her and ends up in a dangerous situation. Because Mirai Kuriyama belongs to the bloodbenders, a very rare class of the spirit world who are hated and persecuted by other supernatural beings. So Akihito gets into this fight by rescuing Mirai and tries to protect her from then on.

I really liked "Beyond the Boundary".

It's not necessarily something new, but the relationships between the individual characters are very well managed, the characters are written quite well with a few exceptions, and the animation is also very well done.

The Get Down story is set in 1970s New York. The once radiant metropolis is completely run down and practically broke. The atmosphere is tense and threatens to change at any moment. Last but not least, criminal gangs are forming everywhere, ensuring that there is always unrest and never safety on the streets. Times are tough -- a devastating reality that even a teenage gang in the South Bronx feels uncomfortably every day.

"The Get Down" portrays the beginnings of hip-hop quite well and with a lot of realism.

The setting and costumes are also wonderful.

The soundtracks of the series are banging anyway.

It's a shame the series was canceled... But for anyone interested in the history of hip-hop, it's definitely worth seeing.

Kakegurui is a Japanese anime series that premiered in July 2017 and is based on the manga of the same name by Homura Kawamoto. The setting is a private school whose visitors secure their social status by gambling.

"Kakegurui - Life is a Game" is very exciting with its various games of chance, but I couldn't get used to the sexualization of the characters at all, which ruined the anime for much.

It's a pity actually, because I think that without the perversions it could have been an exciting anime, like I think the anime could have potential bring back some Yu-Gi-Oh-Vibes.

Watch it if you have no problem with Ecchi-Content.

The young policeman Kurt Wallander (Adam Pålsson) has to find his way in the increasingly brutal environment of the Swedish city of Malmö. Bored with his job as a simple patrolman, he actually prefers to switch to the criminal police immediately to solve exciting cases. When one day he fails to protect a teenager from a horrific attack, a turning point in his private and professional career is imminent.

"Young Wallander" brings along a reasonably interesting story and the main actor does his job quite well, but that's about it.

If you don't expect much, you won't be disappointed.

It's just one of those typical small town crime series.

American Crime Story is an American anthology series from FX and acts as a sister series to America Horror Story. Accordingly, each season revolves around a completed criminal case that has caused a stir in recent decades. The format was created by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.

"American Crime Story" shows really interesting cases in the first two seasons, which are presented really well with excellent actors and good storytelling.

The series has real binge-watching potential for every crime thriller fan.

I didn't see Season 3 because the case didn't sound that interesting to me right now.

Netflix's true crime documentary series World's Most Wanted follows the world's five most wanted criminals who have so far eluded the arm of the law despite hefty rewards and international manhunts.

"The World's Most Wanted Criminals" makes the best of himself.

The fact that some episodes are a bit boring is probably more the reality that there are not many interesting criminals who are still on the run (which is of course a good thing :D) I think the documentary series has presented the stories in the individual episodes quite well.

In any case, you can take a look, if you seek a thrilling documentary.

Before he died in Montreal in 2013, Vito Rizzuto (Anthony LaPaglia) was the boss of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada. He laboriously built an empire that he alone controlled. He was supported by his right hand Declan Gardiner (Kim Coates), who was loyal to him in every situation. On the other hand, there was conflict with family patriarch Nico Rizzuto Sr. (Paul Sorvino), who had different ideas about his family's business.

"Bad Blood" is an average gangster series in which it is clearly defined who is good and who is bad.

You can watch the whole thing, but you don't have to.

I personally enjoyed the series.

What keeps you going is probably Kim Coats acting.