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Been watching a lot of British crime shows and a few American crime shows. Not the big ones, the little guys with eccentric detectives in tiny small-town PDs, so there's some commonality there, despite the differences.

Then, from there, I somehow stumbled onto a show called Grosse Pointe Garden Society, which is technically a crime show, in the sense that crime happens in the show.

If I had to describe this phenomenon, it would be the plot of How to Get Away with Murder, but in the setting of Desperate Housewives, with some possible influences from Only Murders in the Building (a suggestion which may have been planted by how the title was translated). Faint notes of Glee.

For cast, it features the actress who played Michaela on HTGAWM, playing an older version of Michaela with a husband and kids, but she's a realtor; the actress who played Amy on Brooklyn 99, playing Eva Longoria's character from DH, but infinitely more compelling; and two more actors that I don't recognize, playing some kind of tedious hetero love triangle.

There are about four more episodes in the first season that I haven't watched yet. I'm still not sure whose murder they're covering up.

• We've got builders in doing a new kitchen after last year's leak, so we have many, many decisions to make, and we have to live with them all, good or bad, for many, many years.
• EC was at a wedding today in St. Paul's cathedral - ok, only in a side chapel, but still!
• YC is on his way to some remote location to produce sessions for a band for a week; no idea who they are.

My conclusion is that my kids have fancier lives than me, which is good.

Edit: there was one other thing today. On the way to the kitchen shop I had to drive through a demonstration against housing migrants in hotels. A man stood at the side of the road with a sign saying we should bring back Guy Fawkes and burn down parliament. I happened to have the window open because it was a hot day, and I had to pass him slowly, so I told him he was a fucking idiot.

I'm annoyed that the protesters draped themselves in flags. I'm as English as anyone could be, and nothing that they're saying represents me at all.