A murder. A sad detective. A small town with secrets. A lingering sense of despair permeating absolutely everything. Put them all together and you’ve got the makings of a great binge watch. (Bonus points if you get to flip on the subtitles and pretend you’re doing something educational.) Thanks to the rise of streaming and the Nordic noir boom, the last decade has blessed us with a bounty of superbly addictive crime dramas.
Maybe you know this and have blazed your way through most of them already. Or maybe you don’t and are looking for something to occupy you when
Introducing The Hawk Eye s Citizen Scholar Class of 2021
The Hawk Eye
Each year, The Hawk Eye asks schools in southeast Iowa and west central Illinois to nominate three students for the Bill Mertens Citizen Scholar Award.
While eachnominee is worthy of the Citizen Scholar title, only one from each school can be selected for a chance at a $1,000 scholarship, named for The Hawk Eye s late publisher who established it in 2001, the third year of the Citizen Scholars program.
The winner will be announced May 30.
The minimum requirement for consideration was a 3.5 grade-point average. Nominees also were expected to demonstrate a four-year career of active engagement in the life of their school and community through participation and leadership in extra-curricular activities, as well as participation in events and organizations beyond their classroom walls in the places where they live.
The audience got an answer, in part because of a clue involving the recurring misspelling “definately”, but not all were satisfied. There was a sense that creator Jed Mercurio’s bravura technique – the breathless pacing, the shocking cull of crucial characters, the lingering reveals and outrageous cliff-hangers – was no longer seamless. Mercurio had woven an increasingly compressed milieu, putting together a decade’s worth of crimes and suspects, but he couldn’t engineer a genuinely satisfying conclusion.
HBO, SBS, BBC
Some of the best shows in the police genre (from left): The Wire, The Killing and Happy Valley. That setback needn’t overly detract from