#troubledblood

[badlywiredlamp]

How it started - Skegness rail station.

I've never been to film school btw 😎

[lizm2011]

C.B. Strike: Troubled Blood

Really enjoy this series.  Here’s NYT’s mini review of C.B. Strike: Troubled Blood’ (2/13/23).   “Speaking of J.K. Rowling, the new season of the BBC series “C.B. Strike” — its fifth, labeled in America as its third — arrived Monday on HBO Max with virtually no notice, like a poor neighbor tapping into your Wi-Fi. Rowling writes the mystery novels on which the show is based (under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith) and is an executive producer of the series, and it seems likely that the controversy surrounding her views on transgender activism has affected the American streaming service’s eagerness to promote the show.

That’s unfortunate, because based on the first of the season’s four episodes, “C.B. Strike” is as intelligent, deeply felt, adroitly written and directed and wonderfully acted as ever. It is an exemplary British mystery, which is a high distinction.

Recent seasons of “C.B. Strike” (known as “Strike” in Britain), along with the novels they adapt, have been increasingly focused on family tragedy, and “Troubled Blood” continues the trend. A woman hires the stoic private eye Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) and his doughty partner Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger) to reopen the investigation of her mother’s disappearance in 1974. As they start in on the grief-laden case, Robin is being harassed by her angry husband a##bout their divorce and Cormoran learns that a beloved aunt is dying of cancer.

The characters could be stereotypes, but as imagined by Rowling, adapted and directed by Tom Edge and Sue Tully, and definitively portrayed by Burke and Grainger, they’re fully dimensional. Cormoran’s quiet but volatile nobility and Robin’s deadly serious efficiency, masking a catalog of trauma, come from the inside; it takes no effort to believe them.

And while the cases can be grim — and while the sexually charged, sometimes testy relationship between Cormoran and Robin can take its toll on your emotions — “C.B. Strike” is ultimately a hopeful show, predicated on the dignity of the work the partners do and the solace they find in their friendship. An early scene in which a smiling Cormoran and Robin reunite, both at least momentarily escaping into the complexities of the case, is a purely joyous moment.

[milosvasic]

#robertgalbraith #troubledblood (at Врњачка Бања) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGuuBHCBRGwn5lZTDtdYCdA4eAYmJ5WWmdhTOg0/?igshid=zmr21hg6zv0m

[hobbeshalftail3469]

Saw this website and thought...."I wonder if Strike knows about it?!"😎🤣😎

[hobbeshalftail3469]

Well, that was 927 pages of gloriousness

[blueymoons]

Troubled Blood...Out of Context

[small-axe]

Ok so I'm not going to read Troubled Blood nor see the TV show if and when it comes out because I'm not buying into a transphobic narrative.

But can someone who has read Troubled Blood just let me know if Robin and Cormoran get together or not because I've followed them this far. Spoil away.

[fredhandbag]

New books releasing this week from Wendy Walker - Don’t Look for Me and from Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) - Troubled Blood. Lots of great reviews for the Walker book. And looks like Rowling didn’t listen to comments about the length of the last book (200 pages too long 😧) Amazon says this book is 944 pages 😮 Are you a Cormoran Strike fan? #wendywalker #dontlookforme #robertgalbraith #troubledblood #jkrowling #cormoranstrike #newreleasetuesday #shelfie #sundayshelfie #bradshelfie #bookstagram #bookshelves #bookswithcharacter #bookhoarder #bookworm #sodacityreads #bookreview #hardcover #bookcollector #bookhaul #bookspines #goodreads #homelibrary #fiction #crimefiction #thriller #bookcollection (at Ballentine, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFE5vn5AxAt/?igshid=8wh5aenxtlpp