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                                             TV Round-Up
                                               Spaz
                                                covered all the Canadian
                                                goodies, as usual, in
                                                his section below. 
                                                Johnny Moronic covered Dead
                                                    Point ,
                                                the most recent
                                                adventure of Jack Irish,
                                                in his own section
                                                below. This is the
                                                latest in a series of
                                                Australian made-for-TV
                                                neo-noir movies adapted
                                                from the detective
                                                novels of Peter Temple.
                                                The title role is played
                                                by Guy Pearce, who is
                                                familiar to Americans
                                                from his roles in L.A.
                                                Confidential, Mildred
                                                Pierce, The King's
                                                Speech, Iron Man 3, and
                                                many others. This
                                                actually aired Sunday
                                                evening in Australia.
                                                (Sydney is 17 hours
                                                ahead of Los Angeles.)
                                                
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                                            Jack Snow covered the latest
                                            adventure of Komissarin
                                            Heller, Tod am
                                                Weiher
                                            
                                            Lisa
                                              Wagner     
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                                          | Jack
                                                Irish: Dead Point
(2014;
                                                Made-for-TV) 
 Kate
                                                        Beahan film
                                                  clip (samples below)
                                              
                                               Marta
                                                        Dusseldorp film
                                                  clip (samples below)  Tess
                                                        Haubrich film
                                                  clip (no nudity, but
                                                  peekaboo lingerie;
                                                  samples below)   
The
                                                  Sleeping Dictionary
(2003)Emily
                                                        Mortimer film
                                                  clip in 1080p (collage
                                                  below)   "Secrets
                                                  and Lies"
(entire
                                                  series)
 Johnny's
                                                  comments:
 Well,
                                                  now that the series is
                                                  over, what can I say?
                                                  Secrets & Lies has
                                                  a fantastic,
                                                  gut-wrenching ending,
                                                  but it takes a helluva
                                                  lot of mediocrity and
                                                  melodrama to get
                                                  there. Ben Gundelach
                                                  (Martin Henderson) is
                                                  the marathon man,
                                                  always running,
                                                  desperately trying to
                                                  save himself by
                                                  accusing everyone
                                                  else, which make him
                                                  not only a
                                                  neighbourhood
                                                  favourite, but much
                                                  loved at home... To be
                                                  honest, Ben was never
                                                  going to be the
                                                  killer, mainly because
                                                  it would have taken
                                                  one massive twist to
                                                  make his actions
                                                  convincing otherwise.
                                                  There probably needed
                                                  to be more clues given
                                                  along the way as it
                                                  seemed to be lengthy
                                                  periods between decent
                                                  clues. The
                                                  ever-present detective
                                                  (Anthony Hayes),
                                                  Javert-like in Ben's
                                                  life, humouring Ben's
                                                  wild accusations,
                                                  wants to desperately
                                                  arrest Ben, but can't
                                                  find the evidence to
                                                  do so. The ending is
                                                  such a gut-punch, that
                                                  I highly doubt that
                                                  the American series
                                                  would go with it (I'm
                                                  happy to be wrong).
                                                  Looking through the
                                                  series again, that
                                                  character's behaviour
                                                  is something to
                                                  behold, far more
                                                  troubling than before
                                                  you know what they
                                                  did. It's shame the
                                                  series spends to much
                                                  time on the red
                                                  herrings, I'm sure it
                                                  could've been a bigger
                                                  hit, well maybe a
                                                  different network
                                                  would've helped.
 And
                                                  I definitely didn't
                                                  pick the killer...
 
 Adrienne
                                                  Pickering collages
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