Genre: TV Series
Grade: B+
Notable People: Alfred Molina, Claire Coulter, Rossif Sutherland, Elle Maija Tailfeathers Created by: Josep Cister and Jaime Vaca-
Title: Three Pines
Review: Trolling the stream last night and stumbled on this two-episode miniseries from the Canadian Broadcasting (CBC) on Amazon….and …got sooooo excited. If you read my reviews …. ever….you know how I feel about Louise Penny’s Gamache series of books….and this is a long time effort in the making to try and capture the magnificent complexity of these Quebecois treasures. Well, not quite the total success, but a decent stab. Molina almost captures the contemplative angst of the magnificent Gamache and the supporting cast is good. The locale they found for shooting the lost and remote Eastern Townships village of Three Pines is dead on, and the crazy old woman they found to play crazy old Ruth Zardo….is just great. Quite entertaining though flawed Might want to check out an alternative take “Still Life” –which is the name of the Penny book both takes are based on-which is also on available free on Amazon. I expect there to be more of these from the CBC as Penny/Gamache are viewed as national treasures up dat way- Ay. .