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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 21, 2020 19:15:50 GMT
I will not allow myself to be critical of Endeavour and have squelched any thoughts of loss of edge, paralytic depression, etc.
Terrible to admit, but I am wallowing, positively wallowing in Poldark. I'm still only on season two and am really pissed off at Ross. And Elizabeth -- that whore!
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 21, 2020 20:03:53 GMT
Oh, there is already a new inspector? The new Death in Paradise season has not reached us yet. But it's true that I never really felt that Ardal O'Hanlon really fit the part either -- it just seemed too contrived. I'm with cheery on this. Ralf Little just doesn't look like he's believing the part, and the formula's wearing thin (are their detective sergeants only ever there to be just decorative?).
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 21, 2020 20:58:33 GMT
I mostly worried about such a small place having such a huge number of murders to solve. Clearly a statistical anomaly.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 25, 2020 15:43:01 GMT
Only one episode left of The Handmaid’s Tale Season Three. It’s been very dark this season. Mainly because the evil that is Gilead has permeated our heroine.
Mr. Kimby and I love to speculate on how the creators will wrap this story up. Mr. Kimby thinks everyone will cross into Canada and live happily ever after. I think Nick will lead the resistance and re-take America. We’ll see. (In about 2 years when Season 4 arrives in our library...)
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2020 17:34:15 GMT
So ~ what did everyone think of the final episode of Endeavour's season 7?
In many ways it reminded me of older British mystery novels, the ones that go into zillions of paperback reprints. Think of some of Ruth Rendell's, dense with character development & well-described locales, but also sometimes ott with plot twists and mis-directions.
Regardless, the episode satisfied with plot peaks, such as the simmering Morse & Thursday bad feelings boiling into confrontation, which allowed both Strange & Dr. DeBryn to display their ideals and commitments. We finally got to see what the plethora of other characters were there for, as to a degree it had all seemed kind of random before.
Honestly, I found the denouement pretty contrived, although by that time I was invested enough in the plot to be carried along.
And whatever else I thought about this season, I remain carried away by all the gorgeous scenes of Venice as well as the trademark aerial shots of Oxford.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 25, 2020 17:54:52 GMT
Oh, we call that "Les Enquêtes de Morse" in France. We have only completed season 6 so far. (The previous series to this prequel was called "Inspecteur Morse.")
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 25, 2020 18:02:44 GMT
I like the pathologist. He has all the best lines.
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Post by lugg on Feb 28, 2020 19:52:57 GMT
Disappointed with Endeavour but I'd not watched previous series so maybe my problem. So far I am enjoying the second series of The Split much more than the first. Any Star Trek fans here ? if so then Pickard is just wow - only watched the first episode so far but I am absolutely hooked. Patrick Stewart is just wonderful, the scene is set to bring the viewer up to date with the intervening years and the plot just thickens as the episode progresses.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 28, 2020 20:38:44 GMT
Just watched the final episode of Endeavour. I love the cast and writing. It may not be as good as earlier series but I enjoyed it anyway.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 29, 2020 20:35:45 GMT
I watched a random episode of Poldark tonight for the first time ever, and it was not unbearable. But the bad guy is so bad, and the good guy is so good...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 29, 2020 20:43:22 GMT
The bad guy continues to be a mustache twirling baddy even without a mustache and the good guy stays nauseatingly noble for a long time. But by the end of season three, I was ready to push rat-faced self-satisfied Ross off one of those dramatic cliffs.
Just started season four, wherein it is proved that Poldark is truly bodice-ripper romance. How do I know? It's because the men in it are infinitely sensitive to the emotional clues and needs of women. They even manage to say the right things eloquently without any of that aw shucks, ma'am fumbling.
It must be added here that I am hopelessly addicted to the series.
Thanks for the recommendation of Pickard, Lugg. You're the second friend this week who has said to watch it.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 1, 2020 13:02:05 GMT
I'm trying to talk hubby into getting Amazon Prime for a month so that I can watch Picard...might do it on my own but he would sulk I didnt watch the rebooted Poldark, we watched the original series hundreds of years ago...about the same time as we watched The Onedin Line... we liked that. Halcyon days. Just started watching The Stranger on Netflix...2 episodes in, excellent so far.
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Post by lugg on Mar 1, 2020 19:26:13 GMT
Do it Cheery - it will be worth it Ive still yet to watch the last series of Poldark but enjoyed the preceding series. But by the end of season three, I was ready to push rat-faced self-satisfied Ross off one of those dramatic cliffs. No Bixa ......Demelza would be devastated as would I
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 1, 2020 19:43:27 GMT
Yeah, I figured the first time he took his shirt off he wrapped your heart in it.
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 13, 2020 9:41:46 GMT
I was quite taken with a recent series called Flesh and Blood that (given the starry cast - Francesca Annis, Stephen Rea, Imelda Staunton, Russell Tovey) is presumably being sold abroad. The twist is that, though it opens with ambulances and police interviews, it isn't clear to the viewer what has happened to whom. What we get is a switchback between the police interviews and scenes from a developing family drama, in which most of them have some reason for a grudge against someone else. The reveal as to what did happen and how may seem underwhelming: but there is a real sting in the tail in the very last few seconds that might leave the option open for a second series. Which is all I'm saying about it. Apart from saying that Imelda Staunton is fabulous as ever. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by lugg on Mar 13, 2020 10:28:42 GMT
Yeah, I figured the first time he took his shirt off he wrapped your heart in it. Naaa - it is the way he rides his horse Thanks Patrick - Flesh and Blood sounds perfect for me
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 13, 2020 14:54:48 GMT
Just watched the Flesh & Blood trailer and it does look like good, slow-burn suspense. The way he rides his ....... horse, Lugg?? I watched the final episode day before yesterday and of course was sorry to see it go after my total immersion in the show. But they did a good job of wrapping everything up. I was kind of tired of some of the plot twists there at the end -- that grandstanding Ned what's-his-name, all the hoo-ha with the stolen ore and the French, the non-starter with Jeffrey Charles & a bad guy's daugher -- so all of that helped me to say goodbye. Also, Ross had started to irritate me past my limit. I swear, if he took Demelza's head in his hands one more time I was going to go straight through the monitor & rip off his arm at the shoulder. He's pretty much a one-note actor, which showed up extra poorly next to Eleanor Tomlinson, who I thought did a good job of bringing her character to life, even with the ye-olde rustic speech. Anyway, it's gone now & to assuage my costume drama yearnings I watched the first episode of Sanditon which interested me enough to keep going with it.
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Post by lugg on Mar 13, 2020 19:35:14 GMT
Anyway, it's gone now & to assuage my costume drama yearnings May help to assuage them further .....coming soon Belgravia ( in a couple days in the Uk ) - I know nothing about it other than its from the same stable as Downton
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 13, 2020 19:52:24 GMT
I'm ready! Thanks, as I did not know about this treat!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 13, 2020 21:34:45 GMT
After the worldwide success of The Good Doctor, it was inevitable so now we have a new series called Astrid et Raphaëlle. Raphaëlle is the police inspector and Astrid is the autistic young woman who finds all the clues. It's not bad, but so far the actress who plays Raphaëlle is not nearly as convincing as an autistic person as Freddie Highmore, who is excellent.
In the new PC term world, I should have written "on the spectrum" but I find that term totally pathetic. There is nothing wrong with the term 'autism.'
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Post by htmb on Mar 14, 2020 0:24:03 GMT
When someone says "on the spectrum" it means on the autism spectrum, so calling someone autistic shouldn’t be considered non PC.
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 17, 2020 11:41:48 GMT
Anyway, it's gone now & to assuage my costume drama yearnings May help to assuage them further .....coming soon Belgravia ( in a couple days in the Uk ) - I know nothing about it other than its from the same stable as Downton It's Julian Fellowes's adaptation of his novel. It does rather spatchcock in the historical references, at least in the first episode, and the groundwork for a fairly bog-standard upstairs-downstairs family drama was pretty predictable in the laying (posh Catherine Cookson). But it serves for a soporific Sunday evening slot, and gives Harriet Walter some great opportunities with the acid (if you can't get Maggie Smith, who better? And if it inspires the likes of this piece by Lucy Mangan, how can one complain?
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Post by breeze on Mar 17, 2020 12:30:51 GMT
Patrick, thanks for that link. She is really good at snark. I've missed Nancy Banks Smith and Lucy Mangan seems to be a worthy follower.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 17, 2020 16:10:06 GMT
I'm not allowed to watch Belgravia altho I can't really complain because Jeff is coping with my almost-crush on Sir Patrick Vallance (the governments chief scientific advisor). Can't get enough of his calm intellect and reassuring manner as he tells us that the world is ending.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 17, 2020 16:24:05 GMT
The new season of Death in Paradise was supposed to start in France yesterday, but guess what -- we got a coronavirus special instead.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 17, 2020 17:50:56 GMT
The new season of Death in Paradise was supposed to start in France yesterday, but guess what -- we got a coronavirus special instead. You didn't miss much. There are attractive folk in it tho so it's not a complete waste of time...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 18, 2020 20:00:49 GMT
New series of The Repair Shop starts tonight. Moved from teatime to prime time TV. Rightly so. Excellent.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2020 0:20:34 GMT
Finished season one of Sanditon, which I quite enjoyed, and moved on to Belgravia, which I found turgid but will persevere.
For whatever reason, the mention of Death in Paradise reminded me of this: Today in the market, I was buying vegetables and could hear the music from an adjacent stand. Remember that it's most improbable that random music I hear where I live will be the classics most of us know from the 60s through the 90s. Thus it was that my little ears pricked up when I heard good ol' Bob singing The Times They Are A'Changing. Really, under present circumstances, it was a little creepy.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 19, 2020 11:28:35 GMT
Ooer...
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2020 15:34:57 GMT
Last night I realized that I'd only watched @ the first third of Belgravia's first episode, so went back & watched it till the end. It did pick up and I love Mrs. Trenchard. For those wondering whether or not to watch Sanditon, you get to see Mr. Pamuk's butt. Just saying.
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