The Morning Call

Will Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’ miniseries continue its story?

- By Rich Heldenfels

Will the show “Unorthodox” be back? Enjoyed the four episodes.

The Netflix series about “a Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn who flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage” is not going to continue. Producer Anna Winger told Metro.co.uk that “we’re not doing a sequel to this because we feel that we really told this story. It was always designed as a miniseries.”

On “NCIS: Los Angeles” the lead lady, I believe named Kensi, appears to have something different about her right eye. She has had it for a long time. Is this some kind of injury she picked up?

That’s a birthmark you’re seeing on Daniela Ruah, who plays Kensi Blye on the CBS drama. She explained it to Esquire magazine in 2011. “It’s a birthmark called nevus of Ota,” she said. “It covers the whole white of my eye and darkens it. The square of the eye, the white part, is completely dark on my right eye, not just the iris. It doesn’t affect my vision or anything like that.”

When the interview mentioned seeing pictures with white in that eye, Ruah said, “Photoshop. It drives me crazy. This is my eye, my little trademark.”

There is a local channel running all of the “Seinfeld” episodes, and I am watching religiousl­y as I still find them very funny. However, the characters on the show, especially Jerry and Elaine, seem to have had many, many sexual partners over the course of the series’s run. I am wondering if anyone has researched or kept track of the numbers.

Although these folks were apparently busy getting busy, the actual estimates vary. For example, blog kramersapa­rtment.com cites a “Seinfeld” DVD set saying there are 73 for Jerry, counting both those seen and those alluded to. Elaine tallies 50, according to WikiSein, and 56 on kramersapa­rtment.com. Before you ask, George clocks in between 47 and 62, the latter the WikiSein count, and one tally I saw for Kramer, on kramersapa­rtment.com, is 16.

I have become a fan of “Hogan’s Heroes.” Could you tell me how that series ended?

If you were expecting something like World War II ending and the inmates going free, it didn’t happen.

As is common for many shows even now, “Hogan’s” 1965-71 run ended without a finale, just with cancellati­on. And, as Noel Murray of the AV Club once wrote, the last televised episode, “Rockets or Romance,” was not even the last episode made. It was “one of a batch of episodes written and shot as part of the regular production cycle, then scheduled for broadcast after they were in the can. Because ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ wasn’t serialized, episodes could run in any order.”

I am trying to find a show that I believe premiered on TNT several years ago and then moved to a streaming network. The show takes place in I believe Nevada or another Western state, it has a sheriff and his deputies. There is also an element of organized crime in a small town.

When I offered “Longmire” as a possibilit­y, that proved to be what you remembered. Based on the novels by Craig Johnson, it involved a Wyoming sheriff played by Robert Taylor (no relation to the old movie actor of the same name). From 2012 to 2017, it ran for three seasons on A&E before going to Netflix for three more. You can still find it, including on Netflix and on DVD.

Do you have a question or comment about entertainm­ent past, present and future? Write to Rich Heldenfels, P.O. Box 417, Mogadore, OH 44260, or brenfels@gmail.com. Letters may be edited. Individual replies are not guaranteed.

 ?? ANIKA MOLNAR/NETFLIX ?? Amit Rahav, left, and Shira Haas star in “Unorthodox.”
ANIKA MOLNAR/NETFLIX Amit Rahav, left, and Shira Haas star in “Unorthodox.”

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