LUDWIG on BritBox

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The good news:

Finished the six episode season one of Ludwig and LOVED it.  It has a very Only Murders in the Building vibe in terms of the atmosphere and music.

The bad news:

Season two is not available to watch until next month.

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Painfully shy, reclusive, always uncomfortable crossword puzzle author John Taylor gets a call from his sister-in-law, Lucy, asking him if he can come over right now. After he says no, she says I knew you would say that so I sent for a cab; it's in front of your house right now

You what? 

Well, it's the only way I knew I could get you to make 140 mile trip 

Can you at least tell me why? 

I think it's better if I wait until you get here...

When he gets there, she tells him that his identical twin brother James (yes, James Taylor), a detective chief inspector with the police has been acting strangely for months and three nights ago he didn't come home from work, and she hasn't heard from him since.  She's been trying to figure out what happened, but she needs his journal. She searched his office at the house, but it's not there so it must be in his office at the police station.

"Unfortunately, I can't access it. Only James can. Or somebody who looks remarkably like him…"

NO! NO! NO!

So the next day...

After Lucy briefed him about the layout and personnel, he's just about to step into his brother's office (it's actually a cubicle) when the brother's partner tells him they need to get going to the scene of a murder. John has no choice but to go along.

He's the senior officer on the case, but something is clearly wrong with him. This is noticed by his partner, and Dr Whitaker, the doctor from The Pitt, for some reason moonlighting in Cambridge as a constable, who handed him a stack of papers about the case when he walked in.

He, the partner, and Dr Whitaker are in a conference room with the seven people who were in the building at the time of the murder and as the scene progresses it's clear that he is not all right. He's swaying back-and-forth and looking like he's gonna drop the stack of papers And when his partner asks if he's all right, he says I have to get some air and he rushes out to the car. He calls Lucy.

I can't do this, I don't know how James did this every day!

It was his job. He was used to all of it.

That's not what I mean. Leaving the house every day. Traffic. People. Cell phones. Computers. I can't do this!

He'd been flipping through the papers as he was venting. Lucy starts to say something, and he interrupts her.

Hold on… I think I just solved a murder.

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David Mitchell is a brilliant comic mind, and I'm dying to begin season 2!!

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11 minutes ago, jeezifonly said:

David Mitchell is a brilliant comic mind, and I'm dying to begin season 2!!

There's gonna be a special Xmas episode this year and season three is in production.