Tue Jun 22, 2021 8:52 am
#1854419
This is only really a recommendation whilst the chavball is displacing a lot of the broadcast stuff that's worth watching (Basically, The Repair Shop)
The Pleasure Principle - Walter Presents / All 4. A ten-parter
We have been along this route before. ISTR it was called The Team. A joint production with interlinked crimes in three countries tackled by three police forces.
This time around we have the dark, brooding but handsome cop with a secret and the mysterious ability to have attractive women coming on to him just walking through a club to meet a grass. He is from Odessa in the Ukraine. Has the worst car yet seen in a police series and a 1.5 metre spherical assistant who carries a huge notebook with him everywhere
Then we have Saga Norén meets Philomena Cunk, the Warsaw end of the story. Limited set of social skills and a predilection of picking up men to use for her pleasure at the drop of a hat (or some other garment). She too has a secret possibly linked to her being investigated by the Polish version of AC12 for a suspected extra-judicial execution.
Finally we come to Prague where the cop with a secret, (he coughs a lot), is of the grizzled, bearded, world-weary, about-to-retire-to-spend-time-with-his-family persuasion. I am not taking bets on him making it to the end credits of episode 10.
The crimes involve a lot of naked and dismembered pretty girls. Don't they always?
Is it worth watching?
Make your own mind up. We have invested three hours so far in watching Eps 1-3 so probably will continue unless something better appears.
The title is a mystery. Pleasure seems most noticeable by its absence. Originally "Zasada przyjemnosci"
Rob P
"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready
in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
- George Orwell-