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Definitely watchable, mostly competent remake of Astrid, and on the balance of things (including mostly positive reactions from neurodivergent viewers) this show doesn't fall under court-martialable offense (unlike, say, Art Detectives). Cast is solid, and copy-pasting - sorry, writing - is adequate. So if you object to subtitles, this show is quite good.

My biggest peeve with this attempt is the amount of work put in by the actor playing Patience. Astrid is a fully fleshed out character, with a lot of physical acting put in place for us, the neurotypical viewers, as a hyper-realistic performance - so that the word "autistic" doesn't have to be banged around constantly, or the struggles perpetually verbalized. Patience is a sketch, at the level of off-off-off Broadway throwaway actor, cosplaying patient symptoms for medical students.

Absolute must watch if you want to see real provincial police at work. Scripted TV shows like Law&Order (especially Law&Order UK) give the audience the unrealistically cerebral view of the work detectives do to solve crimes. Homicide Squad NO is there to set the record straight - unbothered detectives blundering from crime scene to watching CCTV, to guessing the identity of the perp, to realizing they guessed wrong, to watching more TV... The mixture of indifference and incompetence gets old pretty quick, but you've got to watch this whole thang, to inoculate yourself against unrealistic expectations.

And yeah, when these detectives tell you they are "cooking with gasoline" or "or cooking with grease" (quotes), take it on face value...

Something a ChatGPT or Claude would come up after consuming the entire contents of the Acorn, Britbox, possibly with some White Collar thrown in. Wooden acting by a cast of mostly C-listers - if you see someone you recognize, they'll be the victim, because the show didn't get the budget to keep them for the whole episode. Bloody awful writing, predictable, tedious, with plot twists you see a mile away, with cringey and corny jokes. Basically a Velveeta of crime shows, particularly disappointing because it's trying to climb into the art heist genre, where sophistication isn't just appreciated, it's expected.