How Endings Reassure New Beginnings.

Some recent excellent endings, particularly S1 of "Kleo" and "Drops of God," are the green light you need to start watching.

When I started the “Deep Dive” feature (starting with Netflix, branching out to BritBox and others soon), I didn’t think much about making it through a first season, much less whether I’d be filled with excitement to start a second. The whole idea was to pick up a random show, look at it from different angles and ask, “So, what’s this, then?”

I was thinking the success rate in finding some gems would be, in a word, dismal. But right from the jump I struck gold, as you probably have heard me mention, with “Alice In Borderland” and “Norsemen” on Netflix. And those two series continue to be helpful, at least to me, in judging how far a surprise can go. For example, I watched all of the comedy “Norsemen” and will probably at some point complete the two remaining seasons, but I also felt like the concept worked particular well in that first season and maybe I didn’t want to spoil it if the second collapsed under the weight of expectation. But at the very least, I got what they were doing, I loved it and I felt fine moving on to something else.

For “Alice In Borderland,” I burned though the first season and was eager to start the second, so maybe in some form it was more of a “success” than “Norsemen.” I also liked the second season of “Alice” but less than the first, my worries of burning out the concept coming at least partially true.

Here’s the link to that first take:

Introducing: Deep Dive Netflix.

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I think it’s a series from a different “Deep Dive” that has sat with me the longest and has continued to intrigue enough to get a full throated endorsement — “Kleo.”

Start watching “Kleo” when you can.