This is going to be a short post because I forgot about it and I only have two shows to talk about.

However, it’s been sitting on my list forever so I just want to write it and get it out there.

Ashes to Ashes

I loved this show. I think it was an ITV show, and it was the second in the series. The first was Life on Mars… I think.

So the first season followed a male detective who almost dies and gets sent to the past in a time travel/purgatory thing. The 70s to be exact. He is partnered with this hard ass British cop and they have to solve crimes all whilst man is in a coma.

So then season two, my favourite season, has a similar premise but I just loved it more.

So she gets shot and is hanging on for dear life in the real world and she gets transported to the past in the 70s. She’s a female detective so unlike season one she has to deal with sexism in the work place and she has better banter with the hard ass detective.

At the same time we’re trying to solve her childhood trauma because that is what is keeping her in purgatory/the past. She keeps having dreams about a clown and we’re all trying to figure out who the clown is!

When I figured it out. It was the last episode and I was shook! I was like, no way! No way!

It was so good and it is a series that has stuck with me. I recommend it to anyone who asks.

Small Island

This was a one off series about the Windrush generation. After World War 2 Jamaicans were allowed/invited to come to the UK to work. Obviously, of late there have been issues with that because they weren’t given proper citizenship and the government was trying to deport them.

But the TV series was made before the government tried to do that and it shows what it was like when they first moved to England from Jamaica.

As you know the racism was more overt back then.

The series follows a couple and one man, Hortense and Gilbert, and Michael. The couple got married not out love but necessity and Hortense is in love with Michael, and Michael is a war veteran who also ended up in the UK.

I don’t want to give everything away but it is such a beautiful series. I thoroughly enjoyed it, the story is very well put together and omd the arc of Hortense and Gilbert… it touched me. It’s just *squeals* it’s so good!

So both shows are British shows. There has been more appreciation for British shows worldwide recently, but these two are old (ish) so you probably have never heard of them.

When you’re bored and you need something new to watch, give them a try.