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My wife and I have been paying for PBS Passport. It's been fantastic, really. We have been watching a lot of Masterpiece Mystery, which I have always loved (back when it was just "Mystery!"). We watched all the seasons of "Miss Scarlet and The Duke," now just "Miss Scarlet." It was great, about a woman detective (whose father was played by Tim Downie, who also played Gale Dekarios in Baldur's Gate 3) set in 1882 and the issues she faced. The fun thing about Masterpiece Mystery is that it has all these shows about mysteries and murders in England. I speculated that there are more murders on PBS than in real England.We also watched the very good "The Law According to Lidia Poët" and the enjoyable "Enola Holmes." Both on Netflix. Though I will admit the caliber of the shows on PBS is much higher in terms of writing, even if the Netflix shows have bigger budgets.All three have strong women leads as primary investigators. They all take place at roughly the same time as well: 1882 for Miss…

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