From Acorn TV:
Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd arrives on assignment in Brokenwood, a small town where memories-and animosities–run deep. He’s an experienced cop with a 1971 classic car, a collection of country music cassettes, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. The new woman in his life is his assistant, Detective Constable Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland, The Almighty Johnsons), a by-the-book investigator 15 years younger than her boss’s car.
From Acorn TV you can stream two seasons: Season 1 has 4 episodes. Season 2 has 4 episodes.
In keeping with its mandate, Acorn brings us this detective series from Australia. Each episode is self-contained and lasts about an hour and a half. This series is one of so many detective TV series available that there is nothing that distinguishes “Brokenwood Mysteries”. But the plots are interesting, the characters are well done, and the butler did not always commit the crime.
Acceptable Australian detective series.
From NetFlix:
France’s position as the world’s top wine producer went unchallenged until 1976, when the Montelena Winery put California wines on the map — a story delightfully told in this full-bodied tale about the heady early days of Napa Valley’s success.
In this comfortable, feel-good-for-everyone film Bill Pullman plays Jim Barrett and Chris Pine plays his so-far-nere-do-well son Bo. Montelena Winery is the struggling company run by the elder Barrett. When father and son disagree they enter their outdoor boxing ring and batter each other. Enter Alan Rickman as Steven Spurrier, the Englishman who travels from Paris to California seeking American wines good enough to challenge the French wines. Freddy RodrÃguez plays Gustavo Brambila, a Mexican employee of Montelena Winery who is a wine expert secretly making his own wine.
Five years (from 2008 to 2013) can change faces. At first I did not recognize the son Chris Pine whom I first saw in Unstoppable. Freddy RodrÃguez was the mortician in “Six Feet Under” who had a remarkable talent for making dead bodies attractive. Bill Pullman and Alan Rickman have been around forever.
Despite any historical inaccuracies, just sit back and watch a relaxed family film.
Films Tony is comfortable recommending.
