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Hyper Knife

24 minutes in. This character is so different from Woo Young-woo and every other character I've seen her portray. That is why I'm watching that first. Also, Park Eun-bin has provided me with hours of enjoyment and amazement for the last two, or three, years.
I may take a break after disc 1 to watch Road to Boston, made in 2023.

The Grudge

Britbox
The Cleaner

Series 1, episode 1 - The Widow

Greg Davies is Paul Wickstead. He cleans up crime scenes. His first crime scene is a kitchen with blood, and bits of blood everywhere. He learns the wife (Helena Bonham Carter) stabbed her husband 38 times.
It's a comedy created by David Mitchell, who I've seen in Ludwig.

The Sound of Music

The Cleaner

Series 1, episode 4 - The Aristocrat

Stephanie Cole (Aunt Joan from Doc Martin) plays an older woman. That's all I know. I just started watching it.
The first three episodes of the show were funny. Paul Wickstead is just a hardworking guy and the humor is sometimes on the dark side, sometimes sarcastic.

In my last post about this, I got so many things wrong.

Greg Davies is Paul Wickstead. He cleans up crime scenes. - This is correct. He also writes or co-writes the episodes.
It's a comedy created by David Mitchell, who I've seen in Ludwig. - INCORRECT - The show was created by Mizzi Meyer.
I guess I didn't get too many things wrong.

He does a little blood splatter analysis in this episode, and determines the accounting of the death he is cleaning up after is not quite what was provided to the police. He's funny.

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Episode 5 - The Influencer
He is called to a house to clean. The house belongs to an online influencer. Paul Wickstead doesn't know what and online influencer is. He cleans the blood, and in doing so, RUINS the influencer's life because the influencer was going to do a sob piece about how the tragedy. The influencer rehearses it. But now the blood has been cleaned up, and the influencer doesn't have the blood as a prop. So they restage the blood splatter.

Clarification - I at anytime I refer to Paul Wickstead as "a cleaner," that is incorrect. He is a "Crime Scene Cleaner." He is trained and educated professional who works magic with blood and stains.

PBS World
American Masters - Starring Dick Van Dyke

I am gearing up to re-watch Beyond Evil this afternoon.

Shin Ha-kyun is amazing in this I hope someone gave him a medal.

Britbox
The Cleaner

Series 2, episode 1 - A Clean Christmas

Here's the thing. I'm watching The Clearer. It is a Christmas episode. The Crime Scene Cleaner Paul Wickstead has been called to a lovely corner Ice Cream Parlor. This short clip sets things up. BBC One - The Cleaner, A Clean Christmas, Santa Baby
If you watch the clip, the gentleman that shows up at the door tells Paul "the Crime Scene Cleaner" Wickstead -

Good afternoon. My name is Robert Kendrick. It's Sunday. Every Sunday I get a Peach Melba ice cream....
I didn't finish the sentence because I can't process the sound/words. It's sounds hearing "blahbl eewah yitch ygahble..." (Not an exact translation) Sometimes lyrics to songs are like that, and I hear the singer's voice like it is another instrument.

As soon as he said "Every Sunday..." I thought, Ah, he is Autistic.

Indeed, while typing this, he says as much. (I'll need to pause and rewind) Paul makes him his Peach Melba.... with the patience of a person who has spent two hours cleaning blood and eagerly waiting to go to a pub where there will be pints and a raffle. He tries to tell Robert patiently and using a varitety of idioms that the owner of the parlor is dead, and it is Christmas Day. Robert explains that the owner, Alberto, was Jewish, so he Christmas wouldn't matter, and it's Sunday... Mr. Robert Kendrick is a bit like a British Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory Sheldon, not Young Sheldon Sheldon) minus Jim Parsons' voice.

PBS World
American Masters: Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
I watch the last 20 minutes of this this morning, or maybe it was yesterday?
I missed the first 20 minutes this afternoon.

It is very enjoyable.

https://watch.plex.tv/movie/the-midnight-meat-train

Meat Train

The Detonator (Video 2006)

https://tubitv.com/movies/528585/the-detonator

From Beyond (1986)

Shark Night (2011)