What have you been watching...

Alex · February 04, 2023, 06:29:25 PM

The last episode is on tomorrow night Scrumps !

Scrumpy · February 04, 2023, 08:01:36 PM

I know.. I'm trying to work out who the killer is..

Alex · February 04, 2023, 08:52:31 PM

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GrannyMac · February 04, 2023, 09:38:54 PM

Quote from: Alex on January 25, 2023, 12:43:19 PMGreat acting in this, all of them. The villain is James Norton who was the vicar in Grantchester, he plays a baddy so well, he's scary Sarah Lancashire is good in whatever she does.

Agree, agree, agree! I'd vote for James Norton to play Bond.

Sheila · February 04, 2023, 10:07:30 PM

We've just watched True Spirit, the story of the 16 year old girl who sailed round the world about 13 years ago. It's very good and I think my 16 year old GD would enjoy it.

klondike · February 06, 2023, 12:26:09 PM

Quote from: Scrumpy on February 04, 2023, 08:01:36 PMI know.. I'm trying to work out who the killer is..

Keep an eye on that woman in the yellow coat - it's always the last one you'd suspect what dunnit. Well it is in Midsomer Murders anyway.

Raven · February 06, 2023, 07:38:57 PM

Quote from: Alex on January 25, 2023, 12:43:19 PMGreat acting in this, all of them. The villain is James Norton who was the vicar in Grantchester, he plays a baddy so well, he's scary Sarah Lancashire is good in whatever she does.

I liked him in Grantchester, enjoyed that series.

klondike · February 06, 2023, 09:51:12 PM

I've just got to the halfway point and noticed something odd based on all the vehicles. Season 1 was 2014 and 2 2016. It looks to me like this was filmed in 2018 as the newest car reg I've seen is 18. Why the 4+ year delay screening it?

Michael Rolls · February 07, 2023, 03:38:05 AM

I have given up on Vikings after 6 episodes out of about 50? Each episode is just much of a muchness with no real plot - just hacking folk with swords and axes

GrannyMac · February 07, 2023, 06:40:12 AM

Quote from: klondike on February 06, 2023, 09:51:12 PMI've just got to the halfway point and noticed something odd based on all the vehicles. Season 1 was 2014 and 2 2016. It looks to me like this was filmed in 2018 as the newest car reg I've seen is 18. Why the 4+ year delay screening it?

There was a deliberate 6 year delay to let Ryan grow up, and want to meet TLR.

Perhaps no new cars 🚘 is meant to signify Yorkshire people as canny with their money? 😉

klondike · February 07, 2023, 09:18:52 AM

Well that explains the gap but most shows would just us a different actor.

The cars all have pretty old plates though which is odd.

Jacqueline · February 07, 2023, 12:39:22 PM

I watched Elona Holmes 2 on Netflix last night, supposed to be Sherlocks Holmes sister. Set in Victorian London, Match factory girls = huge number of blacks, chinese etc. Inspector Listrade = black, Dr John Watson = black, Moriarty = black woman. Represents todays London but no way Victorian London. My grandma a Londoner born in 1881, was quite surprised when seeing black bus conductors as she had rarely seen a black person before.

I have three months Netflix for free, will cancel next month, no way will I pay for it, so many foreign dubbed films on there, anything halfway decent I have seen already. The only films any good are on Talking Pictures the old 50's ones, very few decent films that interest me made these days.

Alex · February 07, 2023, 12:45:59 PM

I couldn't live without Netflix

As I don't have a telly licence I watch lots of stuff including the 'foreign dubbed' films, some great storylines, particularly from Sweden and Norway. Before you give it up have a look at Women At War set in France in WW I , tells the story of 4 French women but yes it's dubbed.

Scrumpy · February 07, 2023, 07:10:04 PM

There is so much choice on Netflix.. Amazon.. Disney..
As well as iPlayer ... I have these should I need them..
My family add me on their list ....
I seldom use them.. but it is good to know that they are available..
I could never watch anything with sub-titles.. My reading is not quick enough.. By the time I have read the sub-titles the scene is over..

JBR · February 07, 2023, 07:38:54 PM

Quote from: Jacqueline on February 07, 2023, 12:39:22 PMI watched Elona Holmes 2 on Netflix last night, supposed to be Sherlocks Holmes sister. Set in Victorian London, Match factory girls = huge number of blacks, chinese etc. Inspector Listrade = black, Dr John Watson = black, Moriarty = black woman. Represents todays London but no way Victorian London. My grandma a Londoner born in 1881, was quite surprised when seeing black bus conductors as she had rarely seen a black person before.

I have three months Netflix for free, will cancel next month, no way will I pay for it, so many foreign dubbed films on there, anything halfway decent I have seen already. The only films any good are on Talking Pictures the old 50's ones, very few decent films that interest me made these days.

When I began reading your post, and having been a Sherlock Holmes fan, I couldn't wait to find that film on Netflix.
Then I read further.
In all honesty, it annoys me how recent programmes and films overdo the business of 'equality', whilst ignoring historical facts. I have seen so many recently, and it annoys me because it reminds me how many examples there are these days of putting non-white before white when it comes to employment - the police, for example - completely contrary to the actual proportions in real life.