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Case Histories (2011–2013)

Caption is Lacking BIG time.

[5/10 · 9 December 2018]

Case History has good story lines and believable characters. But I can only rate the show with 5 stars because of the following production problems. (1) The Scottish accent of most characters are very hard to understand. (2) The close-caption / subtitles do not help because 90 percent of them are incomplete (inaudible is noted) because the people writing the caption do not know what is being said like myself. (3) The captions in Season Two are prone to have words without a space between them and that makes them hard to read. (4) The actors speak so fast it is hard to read the captions before they are gone. (5) Brodie's daughter is IMPOSSIBLE to understand! (6) The background music is vocal songs and the words are included in the close caption. NOW, what if you cannot hear the music (you are deaf), you will be looking for moving lips and it is the vocal in the BG music. At least they could indicate the caption as vocal lyrics as do other programs. VERY BAD PRODUCTION!

DCI Banks (2010–2016)

Hitchcock Knew Better

[4/10 · 5 December 2018]

Hitchcock said that you should never lead your audience into suspenseful moment and kill-off the person they care for. In the file "Sabotage" (1936) Hitch brought the suspense level up to a boil and killed off the little boy on a bus with a bomb. I heard him say it more than once that wished he had not done that.

In "DCI Banks" the writers lead the audience into a state of mind where the crime investigation even takes second place to the love relation between DCI Banks and DS Annie Cabbot. For the complete 5 seasons the audience is promised that they will be together but then the writers pull them apart. This cycle repeats more than once in the 5 seasons. It is like dangling a carrot in front of a horse and never giving it to him. The horse will get mad and so did I each time I got my hopes up and then they jerked my feet from under me.

This process continues to the last episode in the last season. You may ask, "How do the writers bring them together into a happy ending? They don't, they kill-off DS Cabbot and leave you very disappointed and knowing you wasted your time watching the series.

Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–2001)

Unbelievable Bad Writing

[1/10 · 1 November 2017]

I had to give up on the series in middle of the second season. The writing was so bad that Walker made stupid decisions just to carry the plot and extend the episode. The Texas Rangers are light-years smarter than Walker as depicted in this awful series and to my bad luck I purchased the complete show on DVD. - If you cannot suspend belief then this show is not for you. I did like the fact that a lot of the show was filmed on location.

Midnight Cab (1992– )

Midnight Cab (Radio Drama)

[10/10 · 7 October 2015]

This radio drama was produced and aired on CBC Radio from 1992-11-14 to 1996-03-16, there are 36 half hour shows. It was one of the programs that made up the 'The Mystery Project' series. The program name was named "Midnight Cab" and its main character is Walker Devereaux (David Ferry), a 19 year old aspiring novelist from northern Ontario, who works the grave yard shift driving a taxi in downtown Toronto. In each episode, Walker happens upon a mystery and becomes more or less amazed or confused by his dispatcher, Krista Papadopoulos (Jaqueline Samuda). I love the show and have listened to my MP3 copies MANY times. One of my favorite characters shows in episode 30 and her name is "Jiggs" who is played by "Stephanie Morgenstern". Jiggs is a mysterious person and gives Walker a hard time while he stays faithful to his wife "Kriste". GREAT SHOW!!!!