Lesson learned: Globe readers want to know when a show is based on something else
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About 45 seconds later, I realized the two characters were already friends, and I was watching the fourth season premiere of the French version. The streaming service I'd found did not have Season 1. I decided to try PBS, which seemed to have it on their Passport app. Several failed attempts to activate a PBS account later, I gave up and watched an episode of '
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What have we learned here? One: always reference the source material; readers clearly want to know. And two: sometimes even a person who writes TV criticism for a living can't get their streaming apps to work for them. I promise, someday I'll watch 'Astrid' from the beginning. I hear it's pretty good.
Lisa Weidenfeld is an arts editor for the Globe.
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