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Drawn Together by Differences (Astrid TV show REVIEW)

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  "They laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at them because they’re all the same."                                              ~Kurt Cobain Although these words aren’t uttered until the final episode of the first season, the idea is a poignant leitmotif which runs throughout the French series, Astrid , from the very start… and I couldn’t be more enchanted. This show is an absolute delight. Astrid, streaming on PBS via Amazon Available to stream on PBS, Astrid (or Astrid et Raphaëlle , in its native French—no idea why they decided to drop the other name, stateside) is another fine police procedural/detective program from Walter Presents… but there’s so much more to it than just that .  On paper, Astrid might seem not so different from a host of other cop shows over the years. It features an odd couple: the messy, loud detective, Raphaëlle (in a fantastic turn by Lola Dewaere), and the meticulous, withdrawn police librarian, Astrid (brilliantly portr