Seshadri's Musings

More web-series reviews... Arne Dahl – Jan Arnald is a Swedish novelist and liter ary critic, who uses the pen name Arne Dahl when writing crime fiction. He is also a regular writer in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Under his pen name, he has written a series of crime novels about a fictional group of Swedish crime investigators, called "A Gruppen" in Swedish and "the Intercrime Group" in the first English translation. The books are translated into several languages. The first five books were made into 180-minute films, screened as two 90-minute episodes per story. The first, Misterioso, was screened on SVT1 in Sweden in 2011, with the following four stories shown in eight weekly instalments between October and December 2012. The series was picked up by BBC Four and screened on British television on Saturday nights as part of BBC Four's foreign crime series season starting in April 2013. 2 seasons with a total of 10 episodes. A review from IMDB... This...

More we-series reviews… Don’t F**K with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer – This is a 2019 true crime docuseries about an online manhunt. The 3-part docuseries chronicles events following a crowd-sourced amateur investigation into a series of animal cruelty acts committed by Canadian pornographic actor Luka Magnotta, culminating in his murder of Chinese international student Jun Lin. It was one of Netflix's Top 5 most-watched documentaries of 2019.  One of the reviews from IMDB… New on Netflix today, I figured I'll watch the first episode before getting ready for work. I'm now late and have binged all 3 episodes. It's cost me £15 in lost wages, and worth every minute! It's a well-researched, skillfully written and edited documentary that is a very relevant critique of our modern culture. The soundtrack adds another layer and helps to build up the tension nicely. No spoilers, don't worry. The doc' ends up questioning our values, the desire for fame and ...

  More web-series with female detectives… Those Who Kill – Den Som Dreaber – Another Danish crime series 😊 which specializes in investigating serial murders.  Came out in 2011.  I haven’t seen the American version, which was a copy of this.   Review of the Danish version from an IMDB user… Finished watching the only season of this Danish TV serial which is being remade for US right now. Every episode is almost 1.5 hrs, characters are same but every episode comes up with a new serial killer to analysis and catch. A female lead detective pairs with a talented but problematic forensic psychiatrist to catch these killers. They all have their share of personal problems to handle. Katrine (Detective) has been abused as a child by her stepfather and Thomas (FP) always grasping to retain balance between his work or job that he desires and his family. Now the stories. Every serial killer is different, everyone has their own way of thinking and different way of ki...

This blog is about three things that I do to save money and also to make my life easier 😊 !   Every household has a dish or a cable connection and use it to watch TV programs.   Even though with the arrival of several OTT channels, many have turned off from watching TV programs.   But still, they have a cable or dish connection so that they do not miss out on some programs that come on TV and end up spending some Rs 400-500 per month in maintaining these TV channels.   What if I told you that with this amount, you can watch ALL the channels for one whole year and more 😊 ??   And also TV channels from around the world 😊 !! For people who don’t want to spend such a huge amount of monthly spends on TV program, shift to Flix TV 😊 .  This app gives you most of the TV channels in the world @ Rs 1 per day 😊 !!  I was introduced to this app by my uncle who said that his friend has been using this for the past year.  I thought of trying this out....

In the last blog, my brother and myself were heading to this cousins’ place only 😊 !!  He is a year older than me and was born on the same day as my friend, Dukku!  And for some time period, his house too was in the neighbourhood of Dukku!!  He shifted to Hyderabad around 2000 and I too followed him to Hyderabad, about a year later 😊 !!   There are some incidents that have stayed in my memory concerning him and his wife, that I am sharing below 😊 !! In 1997, his wife was admitted to a hospital for delivery.  I was at home that day and had not gone to office. Don’t remember the reason why 😊 !  In the morning, I got a call from him stating that I need to come to hospital as his wife needed blood for the surgery.  At that time, I was staying in Naraina Vihar.  The bus stop was on Ring Road and about a 10-minute walk from my home.  The hospital was also on Ring Road and about half an hour bus-ride from the Naraina Ring Road stop....