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McDonald & Dodds: Belvedere (2022)
Disappointing but still fine
As we were sitting down to watch this episode, my wife and I were talking about how happy we were that this series was returning, especially for two reasons: that everything was plausible, and that they played fair with the audience instead of solving the case with evidence we'd never seen. Then this episode fulfilled neither of those criteria. It was still an enjoyable watch, but...
Lupin (2021)
Keeps getting worse...
We enjoyed the first episode. Sure, it's implausible, but a little suspension of disbelief goes a long way. Alas, as the series goes on, the plot moves from extremely unlikely to impossible. More importantly, literally every significant character--the victims, the cops, the head villain and accompanying minions, our hero's friends-- all have to be simultaneously quite intelligent and remarkably stupid. "Lupin" in particular has to be a mastermind in one scene and a few minutes later he does something so transcendently inane he'd come in third in a battle of wits with a corndog and an anvil.
Omar Sy is charismatic and a very good actor; the rest of the cast is generally solid. But the scriptwriters need to learn that the plot and the characters have to have some relationship to each other.
We won't be back for season 2.