"Miss Merkel"

The former German Chancelloress solves crimes Miss Marple-style on a new German TV show.

From the New York Times:

Angela Merkel Is Solving Crimes on TV

This fall on TV from the rest of the world: a German small-town murder show called “Miss Merkel” …

By Mike Hale
Oct. 23, 2024

… ‘Miss Merkel’

Angela Merkel, free of her duties as chancellor of Germany and retired to the fictional Klein Freudenstadt (Little Happy Town), stays sharp by solving the occasional local homicide in two German television movies that premiered Tuesday on MHz Choice. This Merkel, played by the veteran stage actress and director Katharina Thalbach, is a gossipy, evidence-stealing, slightly smug 70-ish pixie whose stern East German upbringing gives her the wherewithal to run rings around feckless local cops in the former West.

Lemme guess … in a recurrent twist, at the end of each show, all the criminals Merkel catches turn out to be Muslim migrants she had let in to Germany in 2015. But, then, just as the cops are about to cuff them, they always get away because the lights go out due to Merkel having abolished Germany nuclear power plants and the Ukrainians having blown up the Nordstream natural gas pipeline from Russia.

On second thought … Nah, that’s not how the shows end.

Trust me on this.