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Post by Kimby on Jan 21, 2018 17:01:11 GMT
No worries. I follow both threads and am picking and choosing what to copy to the TV series thread. It’s all good.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 28, 2018 2:28:08 GMT
At the moment, I am riveted to the Norwegian series " Occupied." Norway has stopped all oil and gas production due to climate concerns. So Russia invades. Just watched the first episode and yes, riveted is what I was. Am going to stick with this show. Is there only one season?
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 28, 2018 12:34:56 GMT
The family has a picture of Jack & Jackie Kennedy in the living room! Sister Michael looks like Van Morrison! It is funny as hell & would probably be even funnier if I could understand more of it. There are a fair few very local gags (e.g., the throwaway moment where someone asks for the TV sound to be turned down, and Granda says something like "I turned the sound off already, soon as yer man came on" and you get the briefest glimpse of the famously loud Ian Paisley ranting away). Subtitles help, of course. (I rather think Sister Michael will turn out to be a runaway star on her own account: I loved her running commentary on the trendy young priest wittering away about the "miracle"). My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 28, 2018 17:33:52 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 28, 2018 18:57:42 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 28, 2018 19:38:34 GMT
Now I can see the likeness to Van Morrison!
Could she deal with Father Jack though?!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 28, 2018 20:07:26 GMT
I could see her sorting out Craggy Island... AND Bishop Brennan. True, but there would have been a lot less tea. Could she deal with Father Jack though?! The likes of Sister Michael is what he needed. Now I can see the likeness to Van Morrison! Right? Right?! Gratuitous Father Ted clip:
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 28, 2018 20:14:14 GMT
Do you guys get Call the Midwife?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 28, 2018 20:17:34 GMT
It's been recommended to me by two people who know my taste. Apparently they did not know my distaste for something so unrelievedly gynecological, or indeed, anything medical.
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 29, 2018 12:08:20 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 29, 2018 12:39:58 GMT
Drink! Girls! Fe...,
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Post by questa on Jan 29, 2018 12:47:19 GMT
Bixa, it is a shame you don't like Call the Midwife. The accuracy of the series is astonishing. First couple of series were "before my time" being in the 50s but I noticed the international text book on a shelf and equipment that was used at that time as props.
when the next series came out it was 60s which was my midwifery training era. They had updated the whole delivery techniques and equipment, the changes made in postnatal care, contraception (the 'pill' and the debates on this was at that time). There was also the terrible time when no-one could find the cause of Thalidomide babies. I have watched many medico/nursing stories and have to say this one seems faultless in its portrayal of mid nurses at work.
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 29, 2018 14:03:26 GMT
The social history seems about right (to someone who's only a couple of months older than the NHS), but the actual dialogue is a rather odd mixture of the kind of idiomatic speech you would expect, with some peculiar vaguely Dickensian floridities that nobody would have used. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 29, 2018 14:28:15 GMT
Nuns! Reverse! Bixa, it is a shame you don't like Call the Midwife. Sorry, Questa. One of the people who recommended the series to me was my-sister-the-nurse. But medical stuff? Eeeeuuwwwwwwww!
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 29, 2018 14:35:54 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 29, 2018 16:29:26 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 29, 2018 18:23:46 GMT
Re Midwife the reason I mentioned it was actually because I think the sound quality poor and wonderered if anybody else did. I do accept my hearing isnt the greatest...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 29, 2018 18:35:45 GMT
re Call the Midwife...I quite enjoyed the erlier series with Miranda Hart, but it's always been a bit Enid Blighton for me.
Sister Michael on Derry Girls is brilliant. Of course.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 29, 2018 19:10:25 GMT
re Call the Midwife...I quite enjoyed the erlier series with Miranda Hart, but it's always been a bit Enid Blightonfor me. Sister Michael on Derry Girls is brilliant. Of course. Ah yes! Five do childbirth! I remember that...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 29, 2018 19:33:04 GMT
Mick ~ ! Now Cheery ~ admittedly it's been about 60 years since I read them, but I looooooooved all the Enid Blyton books.
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Post by questa on Jan 29, 2018 23:40:18 GMT
I loved them too. Politically incorrect in just about every field possible, typecasting females as wimps except for one who can pass as a boy in the Famous Five or teasing Fatty in the Secret Seven. Not much good about the adults either...no parental care for the kids or even much interest in them How could we grow up such well balanced people with these as our role models?
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 30, 2018 7:35:59 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 30, 2018 8:28:56 GMT
I read and reread Just William over and over........
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 30, 2018 12:31:41 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 31, 2018 9:16:40 GMT
I read Enid Blyton when I was very young, they were the first library books Mum chose for me. I probably loved them at the time but as soon as I was allowed to choose my own books I moved on to C.S. Lewis and Alan Garner
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 6, 2018 10:00:21 GMT
Did anybody see Hull's Headscarf Heroes last night?
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 6, 2018 14:17:30 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 6, 2018 14:43:38 GMT
It was a very, very good programme. My interest was because My grandfather and great grandfather were North sea fishermen. I lost 2 Great Uncles at sea in about 1912 when a huge storm came out of nowhere off the Dutch coast where they were fishing. I have the Met Office report of that day.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 27, 2018 22:40:13 GMT
The first movie in which Saoirse Ronan made me sit up and take notice was How I Live Now, so when I saw that I could get the DVD for 3 euros to see it again, I did not hesitate. I still really like that movie and its understated depiction of WW3. It was also nice to see the child version of Tom Holland again in that movie, who had been absolutely incredible just a year before in The Impossible.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 28, 2018 21:56:34 GMT
As part of my 3 euro film festival (yes, I bought 3 DVDs at that price), I watched Chronicle again tonight. I remembered that I had liked it on the big screen, but this time I really wanted to concentrate on the early careers of Dane DeHaan and Michael B. Jordan. Well, frankly, Michael B. Jordan did nothing special, but Dane DeHaan was absolutely outstanding. Since I also saw The Place Beyond the Pines again recently, I think he is definitely destined for big things.
I suppose I should also admit that I never got tired of the "found footage" movies even though Hollywood has mostly abandoned them. The first one I saw was The Blair Witch Project but another one that I absolutely loved was Cloverfield.
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