One of my many hobbies that I haven't written about in this blog yet is my love for British tv shows. I watch quite a lot of American television series as well, but some of my favorites are British, such as Sherlock and Doctor Who. I recently came across The Bletchley Circle while scrolling through Netflix and thought I would at least watch the first episode to see if I liked it. Unfortunately, I quickly learned that there are only 7 episodes in the entire series as it was canceled after the second series (first series has 3 episodes, the second series has 4). Nevertheless, I decided to watch the rest of the episodes because I was greatly intrigued by the series from the first episode alone.
The Bletchley Circle is a tale of four women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II. All staff were made to sign the Official Secrets Act which prevented them from speaking about what they did during the war. Susan, the main character, constantly refers to having done, "clerical work" during the war, as a clear reference to her inability to speak about being a codebreaker. At the end of the war, the four women each continued their lives in their own ways. Seven years later, Susan, a woman who is not only extremely intelligent but very adept at determining and predicting patterns, thinks that she knows how to find the culprit of a recent string of kidnappings and murders in London. She reaches out to her former colleagues: Millie, the spunky one who is fiercely independent and is Susan's best friend; Lucy, the youngest of the group with a photographic memory and Jean, who still has many connections from her time supervising the girls at Bletchley Park and uses these to gather more information to help their investigation.
