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Last week we had squiz at a list of romantic movies to stream, so I decided to check out some crime and mystery vaabz for this weekend. The conclusion? I think comedies, musicals, rom-coms and straight up action series are perhaps more formulaic and easier to pull off than crime & mystery? We can probably digest it easier with a lower attention span and that’s why we can take more of it at a time. Then again, I’ve binged the shit out most of these shows below. Again, I’ve organised them from lowest to highest rating again but the good news is that the lowest rating clocks in at 7, which is really not kak.

If you add up all the seasons of the shows, you get more than 40 seasons. That’s well over 400 episodes or roughly a thousand days of streaming. You’ll be good for three locdkowns!

Shades of Blue
A New York police officer and single mother, is forced to work in the F.B.I.’s anti-corruption task force while dealing with her own financial problems. It features J-Lo in the role of  corrupt detective, Harlee Santos who becomes a reluctant informant for the FBI’s anti-corruption task force.
OK, J-Lo, you’re at a rating of 7, so I will definitely give this a kyk! Also, 7 is the absolute lowest rating for today’s list, so we can only go up from here. We’re starting off really good!

The Outsider
This definitely gets the absolute to priority on my list!  (right after Little Fires Everywhere, because I already promised the wife we’re klapping this series first).  Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Stephen King, this horror crime miniseries focuses on the investigation of an unspeakable crime that’s been committed: the gruesome murder of a young boy.
Rated at 7.9, this is a must see!

Ray Donovan
Goeie fok! I need to get on this case again. I think I dropped off by season 3 because I got distracted by so many other good shows which got released at the same time. For those who still don’t know – Ray Donovan is a professional fixer for the rich and famous be it a superstar, politician or high-profile businessman.  No matter the problem, they turn to Ray to make it disappear. He us usually ready with his gun, a poesklap or two or whatever measures he deems necessary.
Rated at a kakgevaarlike 8.3!

Prison Break
You ask any woman who Wentworth Miller is and they will tell you that he is the Prison Break guy. Try it for yourself.
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent dude, is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, Michael Scofield, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside. How? He tattooed plans and cues of the entire fokken tronk all over his body. If this show has done anything for Robert Knepper who plays the role of Theodore ‘T-Bag’ Bagwell, it has made people like myself hate his absolutely every character that he has played in after Prison Break because jirre, T Bag is ‘n fokken piece of shit!
A well deserved, solid 8.3!

Banshee
Lucas Hood is an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff in the little quiet Amish town of Banshee, Pennsylvania. The former sheriff was a bit of a corrupt doos, so Lucas just continues his criminal activities but his past seems to haunt him by those he betrayed years earlier. As the new sheriff he imposes his own brand of justice where violence seems to be the norm. The levels of violence is just as abound in this series as it is in Game Of Thrones but you’ll get so see roughly 48% more tits and pomping.
Watch all four seasons. Totally worth it at a rating of 8.4!

Sons of Anarchy
A biker struggles to balance being a father and being involved in an outlaw motorcycle club. But wait, there’s more! The lines between legal and illegal are easily blurred. Members of a California motorcycle club called the Sons of Anarchy take the law into their own hands as they fight to protect their hometown. There are also a fuckload of man-hugs and leather jackets. If you love bikes, you’re gonna smaak this one, boet!
Rated 8.6!

True Detective
A seasonal anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law. The grisly murder scenes and disturbing plot lines of True Detective are absolutely not for the faint-hearted.
Clocking in a rating of 9.0, you have three seasons to kak your pants with!

The Sopranos
This is one of the all time high rating TV shows ever at 9.2 and I highly recommend this if you haven’t seen it yet: New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling. Oh, and if you did watch it 21 years ago when it first came out, don’t you think it is time to re-watch it?

The Wire
This was released more or less around the same time as The Sopranos, in fact it was released 3 years later in 2002. Step into the streets of the Baltimore drug scene, where gritty cops and clever dealers square off in this brilliant crime thriller where right and wrong is never black or white.
At a rating of 9.3, it narrowly it beats The Sopranos by a testicle hair. In fact, it ranks at number six of all time series With The Sopranos at number 14!
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Need more? Check out our top 10 list of movies and TV series picks from the Plumlist. It is my to-go-to website when I’m stuck for streaming ideas:

#10 Watch the M-Net Sunday Night Movies online in July 2020 All of these blockbusters will be available to stream on the DStv Now app or in your web browser 24 hours after the M-Net Sunday night broadcast. Grab the popcorn, it’s movie time!	On DStv Now (read more)
# 9 The best series coming to Showmax in 2020 Here’s some of the binge-worthy entertainment to look forward to this year, including the best of HBO and BBC, and new seasons of fan-favourite series.	On Showmax (read more)
#8 Ten of the best South African short films to stream Often experimental, filled with surprise, finely manicured and condensing the impact of a feature film into the duration of a sitcom, short films have a life of their own. Here are 10 must-see short films now streaming on Showmax.	On Showmax (read more)
#7 Meet the cast of Still Breathing The first thing people do in the face of a challenge is to stop breathing. And that feeling of sheer terror and panic doesn’t go away immediately. It lingers, like in the South African drama series Still Breathing, which is now ready to binge-watch on Showmax.	On Showmax (read more)
#6 Seventeen out-of-this-world sci-fi series to watch online in South Africa Science fiction, or sci-fi, can be one of the broadest, most difficult-to-explain genres in the known (and unknown) universe. It can pretty much be a dumping ground for everything that can’t be neatly slotted in anywhere else.	On Amazon Prime, Netflix & Showmax (read more)
#5 Watch: The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4 trailer Seasons 1 to 3 of the Handmaid’s Tale had us on the edge of our seats, and we can’t wait to find out what’s in store for June and the rest of the resistance in Gilead in the new season.	On Showmax  (read more)
4# Seven reasons to watch Killing Eve With two seasons long since completed, and the third currently airing over the seas, Killing Eve has taken its sweet time coming to South African screens. Determined viewers will have made plans to watch this simply superb spy thriller drama series already, but for those who have not, there is excellent news.	On DStv Now (read more)
#3 Interview: Gift Ngoepe’s journey to becoming a baseball star From his humble beginnings at the Randburg Mets Clubhouse to becoming the first continental African player in Major League Baseball, Gift Ngoepe has had a career that sounds like it’s been taken straight out of a Hollywood script.g.	On Showmax (read more)
#2 If you like Narcos, watch these shows and movies next With three seasons of Narcos, two seasons of Narcos: Mexico, one season of the documentary Inside the Real Narcos, as well as the true-crime show Narcoworld: Dope Stories, Netflix has hours’ and hours’ worth of true-to-life stories about powerful drug cartels and ruthless gangsters.	On Showmax (read more)
#1 How the score of Still Breathing adds to the drama With already top-notch prolific content in Afrikaans and African languages, locally made drama series have grown up very suddenly in the past year. The Girl From St Agnes (2019) is a huge hit on Showmax, and M-Net’s Trackers, based on Deon Meyer’s novel, set a viewership record when it aired late last year.	On Showmax (read more)

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Each week we take a number from 1 to 10 from our list of suggestions and put it through a randomizer to choose a trailer to show you. This week it landed on our number 5 spot, “Seven reasons to watch Killing Eve” 

Based on the novels by Luke Jennings and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Killing Eve centers on two distinctly different women. Eve (Sandra Oh), is a bored, whip-smart MI5 security officer whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle (Jodie Comer), a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. When Eve is tasked with catching Vilanelle it sets into motion a cat and mouse game that leaves all involved wondering who is chasing whom. It’s exhilarating, exciting, action-packed and sexy, a must-watch for fans of Blacklist, Homeland and Criminal Minds.