TV obsessions—come on, admit it!

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There's really no gore. That's as gorey as it gets.
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Guilty pleasure: much to my surprise, Vision TV here in Canada has started to re-run all the episodes from the ORIGINAL 'All Creatures Great and Small', starring Christopher Timothy and Robert Hardy!

I watched most of the original series, but that has not stopped me from enjoying the rerun I saw last night. My one problem with the original was the English accents and lack of subtitles. Robert Hardy, in particular, is hard to understand because he tends to speak very fast. I have watched some of the episodes on YouTube, but captions there are auto-generated, and the auto system can't understand him either! It sometimes doesn't even bother to provide captions for what he says!

So, VERY nice to have proper accurate captions for this show, which I've always loved!

The new one isn't nearly as good. They stray too far from the books, and try to match all the men up with women. I never bothered watching the second season.
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It's coming! This is the one story I really, really want to hear!

Four Seasons Total Landscaping Will Be the Subject of a New Documentary
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:rofl:
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Frelga wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 4:04 am It's coming! This is the one story I really, really want to hear!
Why?
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I can't answer for Frelga, but I think just the plain silliness of the whole thing is funny. We all make stupid mistakes from time to time, but this .. is just funny and the company went with it, which was fun.
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Why? Representatives of the sitting president conducted a post-election press conference in a parking lot of a landscape company, between a crematorium and an adult book shop, and you don't want to know how that happened?
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No.
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An old TORc friend put this on FB and I couldn't help but think of you Frelga. Annual holiday to add to our calendars? :rofl:
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Celebrate with some autumn gardening!
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I hope the FSTL Tamarian brought you something nice for the holiday.
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:rofl:
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Did anyone watch the show "Manifest"? I just watched the first episode and am not sure if it's worth getting into or not. It could be interesting, or... not?
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Eeeeeee!




Not as thrilled with Malicia. She is not supposed to be cute and impish. She should be intense and judgemental.

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You know you're getting old when:
You rewatch the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer... and not only were we both saying, "Aww, they're so YOUNG!" (about the teenagers) ... but we are also noticing that Giles is much younger than we remembered, too! :shock: I looked it up and he was only in his 40s when he had that role.
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I'm currently binging on the series "Goliath", on Amazon Prime. It's about a sole-practitioner attorney who takes on a suicide-but-maybe-it-was-a-murder case against a goliath-sized weapons manufacturing company and its cabal of attorneys. All of the characters are deeply flawed, especially the lead (played by Billy Bob Thornton, who is my age, but appears to have much more self-imposed mileage on himself). There are no warm, endearing people in it, as of episode 4, but it is riveting courtroom/investigation/murder mystery drama.
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Jude wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 2:50 am I'm several years late, but I'm absolutely hooked on Downton Abbey.

Any other fans here?
Okay, I got Britbox, so I could continue watching the original All Creatures Great and Small, and decided to give Downton Abbey a try.

WARNING - SPOILERS!!

I binged Season 1 and 2, and for the most part, enjoyed them. Then, I hit Season 3, and Harlequin Romance began to take over.

My suspension of disbelief also got suspended.
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You do NOT lose a baby by slipping and falling while getting out of the bathtub. There are thousands and thousand of women out there with unwanted pregnancies that have given this a try and will tell you it DOES NOT WORK.

The whole love triangle with Matt, Mary and Lavinia was a total turnoff. I was okay with it until -gasp-! Lavinia dies of the Spanish flu, plus a broken heart.

I also found it very hard to believe someone as level headed as Robert would fall for a housemaid, and almost have an affair with her. Then, the housemaid has to turn in her resignation to AVOID Robert!

Another huge turnoff was Ethel's situation with her pregnancy by the British major, who then totally abandoned her and the baby, and left them living in abject poverty. A very, very common story at the time, but still, it was so very unfair.

I skipped ahead to see what became of Matt, Mary and Richard, by reading the episode synopses. Another huge turnoff - the writers seem to be determined to not allow Mary any happiness in this life. And after surviving the war, Matt certainly deserved better!
Not going to continue to watch, though I LOVE the family dragon, Violet (played by the legendary Maggie Smith.)
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Spoilers for Downton Abbey follow:
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If you watch to the very end of the series, Mary does eventually find happiness. It does take a while, though.

The situation with the British major abandoning her and their child to poverty is unforgivable, but sadly common at the time. It's good that they didn't pretend that the period was an idyllic Eden in which everyone was happy and we should all go back to the way things were because they were just better, dammit!
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Jude, it reminded me so much of romance novels where you know the person is paired up with the wrong suitor, and doomed to unhappiness. Then, something happens - death, divorce, infidelity - and the wrongly paired person is free, only to have SOMETHING ELSE come along and prevent them from being with their Perfect Match.

I HATE that kind of writing! Save it for .99 cent romance novels!

But you got to admit, the series does give an very accurate portrayal of how things were for women at the time. In that way, it's similar to Titanic.

BTW do you think I should edit my post and put 'spoiler' tags in it?
When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long,
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I haven't read all those romance novels, so it was all new for me :P
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