laura_seabrook | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

I just finished watching the final episode of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency for lunch. Absolutely lovely. I really did like the two main characters, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Grace Makutsi. They are both flawed, but also very resourceful and by their own efforts (and a bit of luck) overcome problems in less flashy but more practical way. Some of the show seems odd, like the stilted way that everyone (except for American visitors) talks, and yet that's part of the charm. I read on the Wikipedia page that the show wasn't renewed for a second season (it was made in 2009) but that HBO are in the planning stages of two TV films. Hopefully that will happen, and maybe tie up a loose end in the finale.

This as broadcast locally at the end of last year, but rather than watch them immediately I recorded them to watch at my leisure. So glad I did. The last episode has "perked me up" for a bit.