{"id":8593,"date":"2011-11-11T04:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T10:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2023-11-14T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T05:05:28","slug":"the-no-1-ladies-detective-agency-television-series-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/the-no-1-ladies-detective-agency-television-series-hbo\/","title":{"rendered":"The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Television series (HBO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a> \"\"I should preface this entry\u00a0by\u00a0saying that I\u00a0absolutely\u00a0love Alexander McCall Smith<\/a><\/strong>‘s No. 1 Ladies’\u00a0Detective\u00a0Agency<\/strong> mystery books. While I have them listed as Cozy Mystery books, I have to say that in my opinion, they are more beautiful, character-driven pieces of fiction>>> in which the “mystery part” of the novel is secondary. (I emphasize that this is only my opinion! I consider Alexander McCall Smith one of today’s best storytellers.)<\/p>\n

This HBO series was a\u00a0collaboration\u00a0with the BBC, and it shows! The episodes are quite true to Alexander\u00a0McCall\u00a0Smith’s mystery books, except for the addition of a secondary character (hair dresser) who, to me, is a nice addition. HBO has not added (again my opinion!) their almost-perfunctory nudity and sex scenes… which totally delights me.<\/p>\n

The African (Botswana) setting is phenomenal. I am struck by the\u00a0realistic\u00a0“look” of the episodes… no slick Hollywood gloss-overs here! The cattle you see are not corn-fed, “beefed-up Hollywood” animals. The roads are dusty, the houses are modest, and the cars look like the type which would\u00a0keep\u00a0Mr. J. L.B. Matekoni (Lucian Msamati) busy at his auto repair shop.<\/p>\n

Mma Ramotswe (Precious) is superbly played by Jill Scott, but to me, the stand-out performance is Anika Noni Rose as Mma Makutsi (Grace).<\/p>\n

I strongly recommend the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency<\/a><\/strong> television series. In the past, I have often had problems watching a screen production of a favorite book\/series of mine. There have been a few exceptions to this, the Princess Bride is one that comes to mind. This production of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is yet another exception!<\/p>\n

If you would like to see more\u00a0TV and Movies<\/a>\u00a0suggestions, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I should preface this entry\u00a0by\u00a0saying that I\u00a0absolutely\u00a0love Alexander McCall Smith‘s No. 1 Ladies’\u00a0Detective\u00a0Agency mystery books. While I have them listed as Cozy Mystery books, I have to say that in my opinion, they are more beautiful, character-driven pieces of fiction>>> in which the “mystery part” of the novel is secondary. (I emphasize that this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,16,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bbc","7":"category-dvds","8":"category-movies","9":"category-moviestv-shows","10":"entry","11":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-2eB","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41731,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions\/41731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}