ZEN - MASTERPIECE MYSTERY - TV GUIDE: Roush Review: Weekend Picks Sunday, July 17, 2011
Jul 15, 2011
by Matt Roush
... Here are some more highlights of another busy summer weekend:
Zen (Sunday, 9/8c, PBS; check local tvguide.com listings)
Zen isn't a state of mind. In the corrupt though undeniably stylish whirl of Rome, detective Aurelio Zen (a droll, suave Rufus Sewell) may be the last hope for truth. In this clever series of politically and sexually charged Masterpiece Mystery! movies based on books by Michael Dibdin, and beautifully filmed on location, lone wolf Zen finds his reputation for integrity challenged on all sides. Pressured by government justice officials to work sensitive cases, often at cross-purposes with his own cantankerous police boss, Zen walks a precarious tightrope. Thankfully, he finds romantic refuge with an alluring new office worker (Caterina Murino, whose authentic Italian dialect makes all the British accents around her all the more jarring). But even that affair must be kept secret. Zen is seductive fun.
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