Story Pile: Bookish

If you’d asked me any time before I watched Bookish what I thought of Mark Gattis, all my memory would dredge up is how HBomberguy, the man who fixed plagairism forever a year after the public release of ChatGPT, dismissed Gattis’ work on the show Sherlock. That was a fun video about a series I didn’t like, that seems perfectly acceptable to integrate into my idea space. Apparently Gattis is one of Those Guys in British media, someone who has been contributing efforts to shows that are already successful and the work of other people who are, similarly, making successful shows. I didn’t know much about him at this point beyond that he was a gay guy who worked on Sherlock and Dr Who, shows I haven’t cared enough about to watch much of at all.

He is the central pitch to Bookish as best I can tell – someone whose name is important enough to attach to the series in the marketing, and he plays the main character, Gabriel Books. This aggressively twee British snob detective joins the ranks of so many other prior twee British snob detectives, and the series that follows his adventures of running a bookstore (with occasional incidents of solving murder mysteries) is called Bookish.

Spoiler Warning: Look, I’m not planning on spoiling much about Bookish, but there’s a reason I’m talking about it in June, right? If the theme of my month is Pride month, you’re going to have to expect me to talk about some Pridey stuff, and that’s going to necessitate a spoiler. There are only six episodes of Bookish at the moment, they’re not particularly hard to find on various online players, and if you’re really invested in being surprised by the plot point, I’m going to reveal, you should watch it first.

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