Louisa Mellor Aug 29, 2017
Cormoran Strike is a refreshingly old-fashioned kind of Pi. Spoilers ahead in our episode 2 review of The Cuckoo’s Calling…
This review contains spoilers.
It’s rare for TV detectives to be easy to get along with nowadays. In addition to a tragic backstory, the modern variety tends to come equipped with a personality disorder that lends them a usefully unique perspective on crime. A lack of interpersonal skills is crucial. They rub people up the wrong way, don’t play well with others and shrug off relationships in favour of stalking around dockside warehouses at night speaking Danish. Even the non-Scandi ones are, metaphorically, Danish.
Increasingly few twenty-first century TV gumshoes are people you’d sit down with for a pint and a good moan - unpretentious types able to switch off from the job, get pissed and eat a kebab. Di Ellie Miller on Broadchurch is one,...
Cormoran Strike is a refreshingly old-fashioned kind of Pi. Spoilers ahead in our episode 2 review of The Cuckoo’s Calling…
This review contains spoilers.
It’s rare for TV detectives to be easy to get along with nowadays. In addition to a tragic backstory, the modern variety tends to come equipped with a personality disorder that lends them a usefully unique perspective on crime. A lack of interpersonal skills is crucial. They rub people up the wrong way, don’t play well with others and shrug off relationships in favour of stalking around dockside warehouses at night speaking Danish. Even the non-Scandi ones are, metaphorically, Danish.
Increasingly few twenty-first century TV gumshoes are people you’d sit down with for a pint and a good moan - unpretentious types able to switch off from the job, get pissed and eat a kebab. Di Ellie Miller on Broadchurch is one,...
- 8/29/2017
- Den of Geek
By now, most readers who don't live under rocks know that one of the world's most famous writers, J.K. Rowling, was unmasked as the author of a little-known novel called The Cuckoo's Calling. Over the weekend, London's Sunday Times broke the story that the book did not, in fact, come from a male security expert using the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. A suburban mother of two helped reveal that The Cuckoo's Calling wasn't written by a man at all - the person behind the book was none other than the creator of the Harry Potter series. The Cuckoo's Calling introduces us to Cormoran Strike, a down-on-his-luck private detective who, fresh off a breakup, is now living in his office and fretting about how to pay his temporary secretary, Robin Ellacott. Professional salvation arrives in the form of John Bristow, a wealthy aristocrat trying to figure out if his adopted sister, supermodel Lula Landry,...
- 7/19/2013
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
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