Another TV series this week I’m afraid – and another of U’s new series. I mentioned the novelisation in my post yesterday, so I thought it was only right to report back in. I slightly struggled over whether this should be a Not a Book or a Book adjacent given that the book came after the TV series, but given that it’s a show about a man called Book who runs a bookshop called Book’s Books, it’s too book-y not to be adjacent!
Bookish is a six-part series, which tells three murder mystery stories (two episodes per murder) which are solved by bookshop owner Gabriel Book (Mark Gatiss), with assistance from his wife Trottie and new shop assistant the recently released from prison Jack. It’s post war London and Book has a letter from Churchill which allows him to help the police, who we see mostly as Inspector Bliss (played by Elliot Levey who I saw in Giant in the West End just a couple of months ago). The vibe is Sherlock meets, well Marple I guess (the Cumberbatch Sherlock and the ITV Marple) and the look is glossy.
I thought the first two episodes were good – but as the series went on it seemed to lose a bit of steam. It’s perfectly fine and I’ll probably watch the second series when it appears, but I don’t think it’s a show that I’ll re-watch if that makes sense. It’s perfectly fine, but if I had to chose, I’d rather have another series of Senora Volpe. And yes I know they are very different things, but they were both shown on U, so that’s why I chose it!
Have a great Sunday.
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