Subject: Stay At Home Viewing
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
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Godwit 
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Looks like it's Peaky Blinders. Reply #41. Apr 26 20, 11:15 PM |
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Peaky Blinders is good, but not for the squeamish. They might prefer Poldark. Reply #42. Apr 27 20, 4:24 AM |
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HBO's 'Rome' is also excellent and absorbing. Reply #43. Apr 27 20, 4:25 AM |
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The Last Kingdom Reply #44. Apr 27 20, 5:35 AM |
nasty_liar
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Highlander the series is on YouTube in its entirety too. If you’re wanting early 90’s episodic tv. It’s patchy but always fun, especially some of the ropey acting! Reply #45. Apr 27 20, 7:30 AM |
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If you have Netflix then you can’t go wrong in my opinion with Breaking Bad and then it’s prequel Better Call Saul. The first two seasons of Narcos are great too. Reply #46. Apr 27 20, 7:31 AM |
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There is also Landscape Artist of the Year. Sorry if it has already been mentioned. I like Sky Arts I think I have already completed all the races on here and although I have authored quizzes on the site I haven't written one in ages and I don't visit the authors lounge. I did say to myself I would maybe get back to writing another in the lockdown. I have put in a single question though recently as I got it to do in daily challenges, I never watched Peaky Blinders but I know everyone who has watched it likes it. Reply #47. Apr 27 20, 9:07 AM |
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Peaky Blinders starts at the end of WWI and ends at the start of WWII. Basically it's about gangs, crime, and power; a sort of cross between the Godfather, Gangs of New York, and On the Waterfront. It's set in Birmingham, England's second largest city. Strangely you never see much about Birmingham (or Brum as we call it) on tv or in movies, it tends to be overshadowed by the smaller and more northern cities of Manchester and Liverpool for reasons that escape me. Perhaps it's because Brum is in the middle - it's not part of the wealthier south so has no tales of the aristocracy dining in verdant pastures nor is it part of the grimy north, with its coalminers and full on working-class grit. Birmingham is a product of the Industrial Revolution but unlike Manchester and Liverpool it didn't develop a national political identity, and as it has no direct link to the sea, it didn't develop an international identity either. But it was crucial to the development of British trade, a major centre for the movement of goods, and a centre for manufacturing. Or maybe it's not on tv because 'they talk funny' - there's a very distinctive Brummie accent (or set of accents) which was always the target for jokes and was never really accepted until recently. And yet Brum has a leading university, acres of art galleries and museums, concert halls, cutting edge architecture, and several Michelin-starred restaurants. It also has the Balti Triangle, an area which gave birth to a style of curry called 'Balti'; if you ever see an Indian restaurant advertising 'Balti' look for another sign "chef trained in Birmingham" - they even ask for Brummie chefs in India! So, Peaky Blinders. Gangs, violence, dead bodies, corruption, bad language, and definitely not for people with a delicate or nervous disposition. Pretty good tv though. :) PS I am available for hire by Brum's PR department for a small fee! Reply #48. Apr 27 20, 9:54 AM |
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Flopsy: Lol, yep, Birmingham and the chefs owe you! I sure enjoy your take on shows and all the details you share. I say I avoid violent shows yet I was a huge Breaking Bad fan. Saw the entire series 4 times. Game of Thrones, too, another super violent series I followed closely. Both on the adamant recommendation of Robbieth here at FT. Who by the way writes THE best TV and movie quizzes. She's got an unusually acute sense of what's what on a screen. She's not active of late. Watched 15 minutes of The Walking Dead and that was that for me. Way too violent. I notice no one mentioned it. Is the show a Has-Been? So...if Peaky Blinders is fantastic acting, incredible characters and snappy dialogue--I'm in. Gore everywhere, like SuperNatural-- a decent show but someone is stabbed in the eye, dismembered, etc. every ten minutes-- then not so much. Reply #49. Apr 27 20, 10:44 AM |
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Poldark--what a fantastic show Reply #50. Apr 27 20, 10:54 AM |
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What is The Last Kingdom about? Reply #51. Apr 27 20, 11:04 AM |
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I have really enjoyed what I've seen if Walking Dead so far, but I'm only half way through season three. Reply #52. Apr 27 20, 12:01 PM |
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I just started watching Sherlock on Netflix. I've never seen Poldark, but Downtown Abbey is one of my favorite shows of all time. Reply #53. Apr 27 20, 12:27 PM |
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I watched the original Poldark many years ago and read all the books. I couldn't bring myself to watch the revamped series. A bit like the new updated series of Van der Valk which started last night. I think it got poor reviews in today's papers. Reply #54. Apr 27 20, 12:56 PM |
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The Last Kingdom... I've only seen two series as I don't have Netflix - as soon as I've finished watching Game of Thrones I may indulge. However, I thoroughly enjoyed those two series and hope the rest is as good. It's about the making of England. Not, I repeat *not*, about the UK, but England - I know how you Americans love to confuse the two. ;) Go back to the middle of the ninth century. The country we now call England did not exist; the area consisted of seven ancient kingdoms which had been invaded and settled by the Anglo-Saxons for the preceding 3-400 years but now they are being invaded again, by Viking Danes and one by one the kingdoms are falling. The young heir to one of the kingdoms in the far north is captured, adopted, and brought up by Danes who treat him well but after an attack by other Danes, our hero, young Uhtred, escapes to the south. He has mixed loyalties - to the Anglo-Saxons from whom he came and to his dead Danish foster-uncle who brought him up. He goes south where one major Anglo-Saxon king remains; he is fighting the Danes and trying to unite the ancient kingdoms into one, Uhtred joins him. The king is Alfred, King of Wessex, known ever since that time as Alfred the Great. If you've got any English blood in you, The Last Kingdom will stir it up! Reply #55. Apr 27 20, 12:56 PM |
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Flopsy - watching 4th season now - just finished 3rd when Edward becomes King..........gripping stuff, not sure about historical accuracy though, but still a good series. Reply #56. Apr 27 20, 1:51 PM |
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nasty_liar, I loved The Walking Dead for the first few series but I gave up in series 8. Two many scenes shot in the dark, I lost the thread of things. When I found myself fastforwarding through the death scene of one of the original characters I realised I had totally lost interest! Reply #57. Apr 27 20, 2:15 PM |
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Yah that's a bad sign all right. "Yadda yadda dying dying" fast forward... -------------- Flopsy: Like many Americans it's been a few generations I've been away from my English roots (I think it's "British" that confuses us?) In my family everyone but me is Canadian. So I make a somewhat proper tea (never as good as my mother's). But I'm dumb as a post in many areas, much to my family's amusement and annoyance. (NOT saying other Americans are dumb posts. Just that my family often rolled their eyes because my personal early education lacked this, that and the other thing). Going back to my great-great though, on my mom's side we're Cornwall back at least 500 years that we could document...Royal Navy, mostly. Our blood is surely in the English soil. The Last Kingdom sounds fantastic. I like to watch "Doc Martin" in part because I believe it's set in Cornwall? He's so funny. Reply #58. Apr 27 20, 6:07 PM |
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Duchess: I'm glad someone mentioned the incredible Downton Abbey Reply #59. Apr 27 20, 6:09 PM |
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Started watching Bosch. Reply #60. Apr 27 20, 9:44 PM |
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