TV shows you most recently finished watching

This is one of Steven Knight's pet projects post Peaky Blinders and is about the birth of the world famous 'Special Air Service' regiment during WW2. This takes it up just to before the D-Day landings and comparing to Season 1 gets a little bit away from the 'Boys Own Adventure' larger than life story telling. Here we get a lot more of the brutality and sheer raw nastiness of war. One episode in particular involving children is extremely hard hitting. An absolute must watch for anyone with an interest in WW2. 8/10

Natalie Dormer stars in this recent crime drama from South Africa. Probably the smartest written thing I've seen for a long time. Politics and racism are the backdrops against a police investigation of a double murder at a well to do family home. Dormer's character is a reporter who is also the estranged sister of one of the family members. I mostly binged this in 2 nights. It has it all for this type of suspense crime drama ( of which there are many!). 9/10

What's funny is that I also listened to Silhouette's Seventh Wave recently (which immediately became an all-time favorite to me), and you can pretty well picture Squid Game world when listening to it, it's quite funny.

Also been watching at Conflicts tonight, the 4 first episodes (among 6). It has its qualities (typically it's mostly realistic), but also its...strange aspects... Characters are often caricatural, and for some reason (probably to avoid making the thing too spicy in the context, it was made in 2024 in Finland, showing what clearly is an invasion of Finland by Russia), the creators of the series refuse to name the enemy, and the characters keep circling around it, like the enemy is coming from Kaliningrad, in 2024, with missiles, in order to secure access to the sea, because Finland is "the door to Europe", and yet after that they keep calling them "the mysterious foreign enemy" and won't even have the idea of having a call with Moscow, it's kinda hilarious.

Yep I get the point about Daniels carrying it but that's more than enough for me. 

Casino Royale (2006)

I like the relationship between Daniels character and his girlfriend (played by Maura Tierney) and that seems genuine enough as well providing some hope. I do understand what you mean about rural places being badly represented as well evidenced by just about any British series with Martin Clunes in it at the moment. (however 'Rural' means out in the country to me as opposed to American Rust which I perceive as small town America) .The equivalent in the UK would be where I come from Swindon. This is a post industrial revolution boom town that struggles with its identity and carries a certain amount of 'rust' where there is just not enough money to properly regenerate it and make it prosper as it could. However most people there live normal lives, raise families, go to work and and also have some fun when and if they can afford it or are able to find time.That is far too mundane for 'TV land' perhaps.