Netflix Recommendations

Here are my Netflix Recommendations, I can't recommend them enough. And last I checked, these are still on Netflix. Don't be mislead by my conciseness - each of the show & the characters are rich.

Burn Notice - Set in Florida. Ex-Spy & friends solve cases to help people while trying to get back his Spy job. 

White Collar - Set in NYC. FBI agent enlists Art-Thief solve other big-budget theft cases.

Leverge: is well similar to above in genre. Problem solving thriller of a team of 5 and well-packed in each episode.

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - Australia production set in 1920. Mystery. Saucy heroine & interesting team. 

Murdoch Mysteries - Canada production set in 1800s. Mysteries solved by scientific-minded Detective Constable. Entire cast is endearing. In different episodes, they bring in some future gadget or tech and pretend like they are the early inventors of that. Some of the real life celebs of those times are brought in characters in some episodes.

Death in Paradise - Set in Caribbean St Mary's island. English inspector & local team solve cases. Sun sand & coconut trees everywhere. Best viewed in snowed-in January winter.  

Father Brown - BBC village priest & friends solve murders.

Good show, first coz adorable Arthur Weasley actor plays the lead, then the whole repeat ensemble cast grows on you. The village setting, green open surroundings, stone houses grow on you. 
Other notes: Everyone wears colorful dresses 1950s fashion. Old British did not stick to monochrome or dark colors like US, but more fancy color choices like Indians. Everyone is prom & proper in manner. Village reminds me of our own villages, atleast South Indian Kar. Just no plastic or paper trash or garish billboards around. Tourism hype apart, all European small towns are like Indian small towns & villages.Everything seems romantic when described in English or some fancy language or on Instagram. 

Bletchley Circle - Great follow-up to Imitation Game movie. Set in the same place. 4 coders who are retired after war and dealing with the duller life, where they play a secondary role now. Meanwhile new mystery brings them together.  

In each of these BBC shows, the location is so outstanding, its another character in itself.

Madame Secretary : Set in Washington DC State office and White House. But depicts the real corporate talk, life and politics. Real world dynamics. Not dramatic or exasperated sarcasm. Very textbook showing what to speak, when and to whom. All about problem-solving.

The Crown: Impressive but not additive to go on a marathon spree. Each episode is full enough to keep you satiated and to process it before you are ready for the next episode. It is capturing cinematic-ally, by the varied cast and their acting, gently walks us through historical events, esp the Diana-free gossip. Best show to slowly improve English wit and in Europe history, rather politics. Elizabeth’s personal and UK’s political unwrap in consequent waves. Dialogues have surprising humor even within intrigue. It's only 1 season old with 10 episodes, but they have plans for more seasons - something to watch out for.

All of these are best for that quite TV watching after a tiring weekday. They are in proper bit-sized 40 min-1 hour chucks, with no cliffhanger to click on the next episode. Or go on a marathon binge if you can afford it, for full immersion in their setup. 

All of them are mystery genre, but not extreme thriller, not horror, not gory. Grownup up but not scary for rest of the family. They have a season long mystery to solve, but each episode has a mystery which is solved by the end of it. Monk was the only perfect show, which had an addition mystery was was show-length and which never distracted from it and actually wrapped it up cleanly in season finale. but unfortunately Monk no longer on Netflix. All of them have an interesting ensemble. Each interesting character, and something to like in each.