DOA On TV : La Brea Season 1 and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Season 2

 

La Brea

New on Netflix is La Brea, a 2021 series that lasted three seasons.  I've seen all but the last episode of season one.  I love science fiction concept shows like this.  I don't know how I missed it in it's original run. 

A family is driving in LA packed traffic to school and work, when a huge sinkhole opens right on top of the La Brea tarpits.  The son and mom fall into the sinkhole, but the daughter gets away.  Her father, estranged from the family, is soon there to help her cope with the disaster.

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the sinkhole, the mom and son awaken in separate spots unharmed by the fall.  A bus and some streets signs, and a few cars that can be looted for supplies are all the 30 or so survivors have to work with.

Once a sabertooth tiger shows up, the groups knows they aren't just at the bottom of a hole waiting for rescue, they're out of place and time.  10,000 years out of place and time.

The episodes are full of action, most characters are likeable.  Puzzles pile on puzzles.  What's not to like? 

 

 

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Season 2 

In the small English town of Little Kilton, Pip Fitz-Amobi continues to be the person to go to when there's been a crime or disappearance.  

Pip carries a lot of guilt for the way things played out as she solved mysteries in season one.  She's reluctant to try to find a friends missing brother, but eventually agrees.  Secrets are unearthed nobody wants revealed, there's plenty of guilt and regret to go around.  Pip feels bad for digging awful information up, but once she's on the track of a possible killer, she can't be stopped.

Pip has a fierce foe in Max Hastings, a nasty rich boy who just keeps getting off scot free no matter the evidence against him.   I'm no fan of invulnerable villains, so I hope Pip brings him to justice if there's a season three.

This show is also on Netflix. 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Word Find

 It's Caturday, and we have FOUR visiting cats this week. How about a cat themed Word Find?  Yes!

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 5/30/26 Rebus

 Summer is finally here. No more 30 degree nights.  It's safe to plant tomatoes, beans and cucumbers.  Isn't it lovely?  The hints are sort of tiny on this answer key.  Click to enlarge!

 

 

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.   Sam Keen

 

Five Things Friday 6 5 26

 

Mary's Recipes 6/4/26

 

 

Mary, possibly at House on the Rock based on next week's photo :)

 

 

 

 

 

DOA on TV The Boroughs Ep 1-5 (Netflix)

 

I’ve watched the first five episodes of the Buroughs and will finish tonight.  Promoted as science fiction, I think it’s pure horror. What a great scary, spooky show.

It takes place in a retirement community far out in the desert. The homes look like something from the 70s or 80s inside. Dark and full of wood paneling. Single level ranch style with attached garages. 

New to the community is Sam Cooper, a retired engineer who was supposed to come here with his wife. She recently died of a stroke and he’s sad and angry and doesn’t want to be here but he can’t sleep on his daughter’s sofa anymore.

He definitely doesn’t want to join the community in any way described by the community “transition manager”, who he ousts from his new home as she’s cheerfully in mid-spiel.

He works at first to try to get out of his contract though he has no place to go. 

His neighbor Jack blows past all of Sam’s reserves with his irresistible charm and understanding of Sam’s lot in life. 

Soon Sam is still grumpy and unfriendly, but slowly gets to know his neighbors.

When one dies, it’s not unexpected but it’s the middle of the night and Sam is wakened by alarms at his neighbor’s place. Breaking in when there’s no response at the door Sam finds something with impossibly long legs hovering over its victim and Sam grabs a hammer to chase it away.

Despite the fact he knows it will sound crazy, Sam tells the EMTs what he thinks he saw, but has to draw back from it when the EMT wants to bring him to the hospital for an assessment.

Little by little all the neighbors are drawn into the mysteries of this supposedly perfect community, guarding each other at night and trying to find the source of the horror they didn’t know they were living with. 

A bit more is revealed in each episode. The cast is excellent. Despite being at the end of their lives, everyone fights to live. 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Rebus

 It's Rebus time!  No clues for this one, it will probably just reveal itself in a trice :)  

 

 

Five Things Friday 5/29/26

 Welcome back to Five Things Friday. I’ve been pootling around in Facebook again, which means I take screenshots of everything that interests me.  I think I captioned the Things in the past but I’m guessing no one ever read those captions so I’ll just let the Things speak for themselves.

From Vintage Recipes

Mary’s Recipes 5/28/26

 A fun picture of Mary looking for something in the...crocodile bin?  Alligator bin?  We know she made it out safe is all we can say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memorial Day In The Garden

 It’s unlike me not to make my goals. It turns out, if you’re me, you can only work in the garden for four hours or so before I need to stop for the day. Pfft I used to work morning till night in high gardening season.

Ever adjustable and optimistic, I now reason that my garden should be complete-ish by the last day of May.

Most flowers are potted up. Tomatoes are in the ground and are unhappy looking. They should spring back in no time. Mostly I still have herbs to plant and flower and vegetable seeds. I got this.