I don’t watch too many tv shows, usually my intake is limited to movies and sports, but a few weeks ago I started watching the Day of the Jackel series. It’s quite good, and I recommend it for this week’s installment of Weekend Buff.
The streaming series Narcos, detailing the DEA’s pursuit of Colombia’s Medellin cartel and Pablo Escobar, proved so successful that Netflix subsequently launched a follow-on: Narcos Mexico (2018). The three seasons of the latter iteration are, if anything, better than the original, and are made all the more riveting by how close they hew to history.
The shocking truth of how we got America’s “Age of Terror”
The Cell — Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It – by John Miller, Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell (2002)
James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson were two of the coolest cats in film. When teamed up with famed director Sam Peckinpah, they create a fantastic movie in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973).
This week we look at a case study in vengeance with Hang ‘em High (1968). This western classic explores revenge and justice, and the blurring of those lines. The law is about justice, or is it?
The American mafia is exactly that — very American. While its roots are in Sicilian brigands who terrorized that Italian island to varying degrees for centuries, the American version is very much wrapped up in issues of immigration and insularity in the new world.
This is my favorite western of all time. It is not particularly well known or well received by critics, but I thought it was underrated. It is also not a quite a cop film, but here we are.
The future of crime fighting is seeing into the future.
Weekend Buff The Other Guys What a week. It was one of the most consequential 7 days in American
What to check out this weekend for all you buffs out there. White Boy (2017). Perp, confidential informant, drug dealer, kid – sentenced to life in prison. A documentary that tells the tale of corruption and criminality. https://open.substack.com/pub/opsdesk/p/weekend-buff-e39?r=1opu3i&utm_medium=ios
The Ops Desk’s look at the JonBenet Ramsey homicide. A look at the evidence that still may lead to the killer.
https://open.substack.com/pub/opsdesk/p/true-crime-tuesday-jonbenet?r=1opu3i&utm_medium=ios
The number of TDS sufferers who are very, very happy that the United States lost a hockey game yesterday is disturbing.
When is this country going to start electing competent people to run government? Is there any big city mayor who can be trusted to do their jobs? https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/us-news/la-mayor-karen-bass-excuse-for-being-in-ghana-as-her-city-burned/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
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