Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Roses on March 29, 2021, 11:33:15 AM
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I have been watching, 'The Surrogates, a BBC documentary series. It is very interesting and worth watching. I could never have had a baby for someone else. The idea of going through nine months of pregnancy, the labour and then handing the child over to its would be parents would be awful, imo.
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I have been watching the first three series of, 'Line of Duty', on our TV iplayer. They are fascinating, but I hope they are more fictional than factual. The news today about the police officer convicted of terrorism is very disturbing. :o
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I have been watching the first three series of, 'Line of Duty', on our TV iplayer. They are fascinating, but I hope they are more fictional than factual. The news today about the police officer convicted of terrorism is very disturbing. :o
He was actually convicted of belonging to a banned group.
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He was actually convicted of belonging to a banned group.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56604470
He was convicted of belonging to the banned group and terrorist activities.
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I recently watched a documentary with Ian Wright, 'Home Truths'.I had no idea he came from an abusive household. It was heartbreaking to hear what he experienced and the effect it had on him to see and hear his mother physically abused. His older brother tried to shield him (he was interviewed in the doc). He met others who were prepared to talk about their own experiences, some in therapy to cope with the memories of their mothers and themselves being beaten. Harrowing.
Something I started to watch was Rocketman. I thought it was simply awful and turned it off after a while. I was disappointed and am an Elton fan. It just wasn't what I had expected.
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Just watched Life in 10 Pictures on Muhammed Ali - just brilliant.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000w0nc/a-life-in-ten-pictures-series-1-5-muhammad-ali
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New series of Fargo starts on C4 at 10pm tomorrow: can't wait.
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I recently watched a documentary with Ian Wright, 'Home Truths'.I had no idea he came from an abusive household. It was heartbreaking to hear what he experienced and the effect it had on him to see and hear his mother physically abused. His older brother tried to shield him (he was interviewed in the doc). He met others who were prepared to talk about their own experiences, some in therapy to cope with the memories of their mothers and themselves being beaten. Harrowing.
Something I started to watch was Rocketman. I thought it was simply awful and turned it off after a while. I was disappointed and am an Elton fan. It just wasn't what I had expected.
I had the misfortune to go to school with Mr. Reg Dwight! It was not a pleasant experience. Arrogant, to the point of self-deification, he was, without doubt, the most hated person in the school!
Owlswing
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It's funny you should say that because he is quite shy in real life. David organises and manages him and his life. I know some people who are friends with them & really like him.
As a school boy he would have had to strike a pose, I wouldn't take much notice of that now. There's also jealousy, a childish & unpleasant emotion that manifests itself particularly at school.
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It's funny you should say that because he is quite shy in real life. David organises and manages him and his life. I know some people who are friends with them & really like him.
As a schoolboy he would have had to strike a pose, I wouldn't take much notice of that now. There's also jealousy, a childish & unpleasant emotion that manifests itself, particularly at school.
I regret that I find your assessment of his personality is based upon him as an adult.
As a schoolboy, he came up against someone who could and did, play the piano to competition standard and, thanks to the size and span of his hands, with greater skill than RD, who took it very badly when he lost the school piano prize to the opponent who stood early a foot taller than RD.
The only jealousy was from RD's side rather than anyone else.
As to "some people who are friends with them & really like him", he is no longer a child and is no longer, as he was at school, on his own.
Owlswing
)O(
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You can't hold childhood mistakes and characteristics against people all their lives, they mellow with life experience. I too have seen youngsters terribly upset because they didn't win this or that prize, 'bad losers', but they are kids and haven't learned how to regulate emotions. I don't judge Elton at all, I've been a fan since my teens but I don't know him personally.It doesn't matter what I think anyway.
Did you really know him? I mean were you in the same form, year even?
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Inside No 9 returns tonight for its sixth series on BBC 2.
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Tried The Pursuit of Love last night. Despite liking the two leads, it felt a bit heavy handed with the subtext rapidly becoming text, and an Uncle Matthew who came across as a sadist rather than a shouty incompetent
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, and an Uncle Matthew who came across as a sadist rather than a shouty incompetent
So you felt quite positive about him, then?
I shall probably watch the next episode - but I don't feel at positive about it.
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Inside No 9 returns tonight for its sixth series on BBC 2.
Enjoyed it, bit scattergun, and not the one that i would recommend for a first foray into the world.
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Having not paid any attention to Line Of Duty over the years it has been on - we have started watching from the beginning - quite dramatic with interesting characters.
Lenny James and Keeley Hawes were great in S1 and S2.
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Having not paid any attention to Line Of Duty over the years it has been on - we have started watching from the beginning - quite dramatic with interesting characters.
Lenny James and Keeley Hawes were great in S1 and S2.
I love Keeley Hawes in this.
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I love Keeley Hawes in anything.
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Season 16 of Grey's Anatomy is now being screened on Amazon Prime. This is the best American medical soap since ER - and a splendidly critical examination of the failures of the American health "system".
I occasionally watch House but find it difficult to decide whether it is supposed to be satire or caricature.
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I've been trying to watch The Pact in snatches. I want to watch it with concentration, it's intriguing but I'm lost. Has anyone else seen it?
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I've been trying to watch The Pact in snatches. I want to watch it with concentration, it's intriguing but I'm lost. Has anyone else seen it?
Not tried it yet.
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I've been trying to watch The Pact in snatches. I want to watch it with concentration, it's intriguing but I'm lost. Has anyone else seen it?
Oh yes! Once you ignore the improbable premise at the beginning it is addictive.
I have so many suspects.
That part of Wales must be a hotbed of criminality.
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Indeed, like most parts of Scotland, New York, Oxford, Gloucestershire, Midsomer, areas of London.....
Thank you Trent. If I have nothing on might binge watch on Sunday afternoon.
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Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes - interesting docudrama
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w6tr
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I've seen The Pact now, just finished it actually but day off tomorrow so not up early. Wow!
Saw the final episode of the Pursuit of Love earlier, great stuff, and Call the Midwife.
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I've seen The Pact now, just finished it actually but day off tomorrow so not up early. Wow!
Saw the final episode of the Pursuit of Love earlier, great stuff, and Call the Midwife.
I too have seen all of The Pact now. Minor niggles with it, why did they spend half of episode 4 doing a virtual recap - annoying waste of time and suggests they could have done it in 5 rather than 6 episodes. And I know people move about but I found Julie H's accent incongruous, but that's probably just me. I'm not entirely sure real people would behave in this manner but it is called Drama for a reason :)
As for Pursuit of Love, just didn't do it for me for some reason. Gave up after one episode. Strange, usually the sort of thing I enjoy.
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Trent:- "I'm not entirely sure real people would behave in this manner but it is called Drama for a reason"
I agree with that!
Pursuit of Love was quite lightweight. I'm sure I saw something like it before - when I was young - and it had more depth but I googled & could not find a TV drama of the same name apart from this one. I did find it pleasant, easy watching but I prefer a bit more.
Innocent is quite gripping at the moment, think it's on tonight.
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Trent:- "I'm not entirely sure real people would behave in this manner but it is called Drama for a reason"
I agree with that!
Pursuit of Love was quite lightweight. I'm sure I saw something like it before - when I was young - and it had more depth but I googled & could not find a TV drama of the same name apart from this one. I did find it pleasant, easy watching but I prefer a bit more.
Innocent is quite gripping at the moment, think it's on tonight.
I think you are thinking of Love In A Cold Climate which covers both Nancy Mitford books The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0180369/
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Another excellent Call The Midwife on Sunday - last in current series.
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Another excellent Call The Midwife on Sunday - last in current series.
We thoroughly enjoy that series. :)
I was gutted when I discovered that Holby City, the sister programme of 'Casualty', is to finish in March 2022! Those two soaps are the only ones I watch.
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Watching this on the great Oliver Postgate
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pht5q/timeshift-series-9-6-oliver-postgate-a-life-in-small-films
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Rewatching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Superb
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006ylbp/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy
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I have set it up on the iplayer and we will start watching it tonight, having never seen it before.
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Rewatching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Superb
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006ylbp/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy
The original! I absolutely must watch that.
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Half-way through 'Children of Earth', the third series of 'Torchwood', on iplayer. Torchwood from the beginning was extremely silly, and strained one's willing suspension of disbelief to breaking point, and this is also something of a rip-off of John Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos', but it's very enjoyable all the same. The last episode of series two, sardonically called 'Exit wounds', and dealing with the deaths of Owen and Toshiko, was almost moving, but not quite.
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Rewatching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Superb
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006ylbp/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy
I've seen the first two episodes now. When it was first broadcast, it was on past my bedtime, so I've never seen it. So far, it's been superb.
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I've seen the first two episodes now. When it was first broadcast, it was on past my bedtime, so I've never seen it. So far, it's been superb.
Really good that you are enjoying it, so many great performances.
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Interesting take.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/dec/15/how-john-le-carre-changed-television-and-paved-the-way-for-box-set-culture?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I find the series quite fast even if there are slow camera changes and lots of silences
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Really good that you are enjoying it, so many great performances.
I've now finished the series. I still think State of Play is better but there isn't anything else to touch it in the genre.
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We are enjoying the drama series, 'Innocent'.
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Enjoying Lupin on Netflix.
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Just watching an episode of Lewis. I like it (as I liked watching Morse) but it annoys me that Lawrence Fox is in it because he's such knobhead.
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Just watching an episode of Lewis. I like it (as I liked watching Morse) but it annoys me that Lawrence Fox is in it because he's such knobhead.
He is, but there is a 100% guarantee that someone is anything you watch is a knobhead.
Apart from my one man show
In which case everyone is.
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He is, but there is a 100% guarantee that someone is anything you watch is a knobhead.
LOL! Probably. ;D
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LOL! Probably. ;D
See my updated post
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Noooo! :)
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Just watching an episode of Lewis. I like it (as I liked watching Morse) but it annoys me that Lawrence Fox is in it because he's such knobhead.
I prefer Lewis to Morse, but now knowing what I do after that unpleasant guy, Fox, it has spoilt the programme for me. :o
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Just binge watching 30 Rock on Amazon Prime, which I appreciate is quite old now, but I've never seen it before (don't know if it ever hit network TV here?).
Very entertaining, funny and sharp. Love Alec Baldwin in it.
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Just binge watching 30 Rock on Amazon Prime, which I appreciate is quite old now, but I've never seen it before (don't know if it ever hit network TV here?).
Very entertaining, funny and sharp. Love Alec Baldwin in it.
Great series, although as so often loses a bit in later seasons. If you haven't seen Community, it's worth seeking out as well.
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I'm not especially into whodunits anyway ( with the exception of Sherlock Holmes), but Morse irritated the heck out of me, with his pretentious love of opera and real ale (I love real ale myself, but some aficionados are twats, like 'The Real Ale Twats' from Viz), and I was also irritated that his surname was the name of a code: unsubtle, or what? The same goes for Inspector Rebus, whose surname is that of a type of puzzle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus
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I gave 'The Watch' a go last week
Apparently, BBC World made this without knowing a thing about the actual books it's supposed to be based on.
It's based - very, very loosely - on the characters in the 'Watch' strand of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.
When I say 'very loosely', I mean the names and species are similar. That's it.
I gave the first episode ten minutes, and that, imho, was nine minutes thirty seconds too much.
To say it was hellish would be giving it an undeserved compliment.
Several years ago, Sky made three film length versions of STP's books, and Neil Gaimen's version of 'Good Omens' was a TV adaptation. These were in every way superior to the Beeb's offering.
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I took a chance on "Nine Perfect Strangers" on Amazon Prime last night. It is based on a book by Liane Moriarty, whom I have never heard of.
Anyhow it stars Nicole Kidman and is an 8 part serial. First 3 parts available now and then weekly thereafter.
It's good in a slightly soporific, undemanding manner. The acting is fine with perhaps the exception of NK who does seem to be relying too much on standing very straight and still whilst smiling enigmatically, either that or she's trying desperately to supress trapped wind.
The reason for watching is Melissa McCarthy, I recognise her from "Bridesmaids" but on looking her up she's done shed loads of stuff. Anyway, show stealer!
She has help from Bobby Cannavale who is also excellent.
It has enough mystery about it and good performances to keep me watching in the hopes that NK will snap out of her self induced stupor and actually act, if she does that it could go from being quite good to very good. Not holding breath.
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I'm not especially into whodunits anyway ( with the exception of Sherlock Holmes), but Morse irritated the heck out of me, with his pretentious love of opera and real ale (I love real ale myself, but some aficionados are twats, like 'The Real Ale Twats' from Viz), and I was also irritated that his surname was the name of a code: unsubtle, or what? The same goes for Inspector Rebus, whose surname is that of a type of puzzle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus
I am not a fan of Morse, but my husband is. He also likes real ales, but no longer drinks alcohol, apart from a small glass of wine on Christmas Day, due to his health problems.
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Currently binge watching "The World at War" on Yesterday channel.
Haven't seen it since originally aired.
Simply brilliant.
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Currently binge watching "The World at War" on Yesterday channel.
Haven't seen it since originally aired.
Simply brilliant.
Remember watching it the first time. Incredible.
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Currently binge watching "The World at War" on Yesterday channel.
Haven't seen it since originally aired.
Simply brilliant.
I have it on DVD.
Masterful documentary series still outstanding.
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Currently binge watching "The World at War" on Yesterday channel.
Haven't seen it since originally aired.
Simply brilliant.
It is. The partner has the boxed set on DVD and watches it on a continual loop (at least that's what it feels like to me). He's nearly word perfect on the narration now.