The first three scenes of Boat Story, a stylish British show that aired on BBC One last year and made it to Freevee in the States last month, feature the following payoffs: a severed head being discovered in an abandoned field; a hand getting crushed in a factory, complete with thick blood slowly oozing down rusty metal machinery; and a fatal knife fight on the high seas in the midst of a storm that ends with the upbeat sounds of Sacha Distel’s “Quand on a le cœur tranquille.” And by the time... Read this story
