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Originally Posted by MandoMan

“Dark Winds” is based on the famous detective novels of Tony Hillerman and are set on the Navaho Reservation. The detectives are two Navaho cops, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The show was shot on the reservation, and a lot of the actors are Navaho. The. Lead actors aren’t, but the are Indians. The first two seasons were excellent.

“Virgin River” has beautiful scenery and solid acting. It’s warm-hearted and romantic. I’m a guy, and I’ve watched it all by myself, but women especially love this series. You come to care for the characters. They all face difficulties and moral questions (by which I don’t mean sexual questions, but questions of what to do, how to respond). It’s a bit like a series of lessons in What Would Jesus Do, but without talking about it. Highly recommended.

I highly recommend “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” on Netflix. I’ve shone this to a number of people here, and they are all crazy about it. It’s a Korean show, and I watch it with subtitles, but you can set it to play in English. Attorney Woo Young Woo is the first autistic attorney in Korea. She has a photographic memory. She is utterly charming, adorable, and weird. It’s a comedy.

Try “Her Majesty” on Netflix. Set in Spain. The unpopular King of Spain has to flee to Latin America because his corruption is discovered, and his party-girl 29 year old daughter has to take the throne. It’s a comedy. She learns and gets better at it.

On Amazon Prime, try “Decline and Fall,” based on the 1936 novel by the great Evelyn Waugh. It’s a devastating, biting satire of English ways back then. Not well known in the U.S., but a cult classic in the U.K. Also, the new Agatha Christie show on Amazon Prime, “Towards Zero.” Very clever plotting. Both are just three episodes.

My wife started watching season one of Hart of Dixie from what I understand is similar to Virgin River. The nice thing about that show is that almost all the men are very good guys which is refreshing to see. Would you say the same is true of Virgin River?