I just watched: Season 23 of the British tv show Silent Witness. Or as we call it in our house “The coroner show”. The current lead on the show is Emilia Fox who plays Dr. Nikki Alexander. One of the games we like to play is fashion police. We don’t know if there is a wardrobe dept. or if she gets to pick her own clothes. The clothes never seem to match and the colors are not flattering. Now this is coming from a guy whose style is considered normcore.
I just read: I’m not the bookworm Ellie is but I do like reading The New York Times. You can’t be hoity toity by just reading the local paper’s headline coverage of local sports and garage sales. We really enjoy what we call “real estate porn”. In the Sunday Business section on the second to last page they list three houses with the same selling price. They usually low- ball at about $500,000 and top off at $10 million. We always seem to like the houses that have horrible locations (to us at least) and the ones we consider meh are always near bigger cities. Of course we check property taxes followed by “Are you serious?”. The ones that are really low are in states that we have no desire to live in.
I just listened to: Cass McCombs
I’m not really into watching tv, but I promised someone I’d give Riverdale a watch from the beginning. I have no clue what Riverdale is or what I have gotten myself into, but at least my expectations are low.
We were in Vancouver BC a few years ago near where they film that show & my daughters just had to go see the place. Turns out they were filming so they wanted to stand around hoping to see one of the characters but it was about 30 degrees out. My wife & I snuck in a wine bar around the corner & left them standing there for about an hour until they got too cold and called us. They never saw anybody. They said it is based on the Archies but much darker. WTF?
I wasn’t aware it was filmed in Van. I know all of the studios there.
One of the reasons I like watching old X-Files episodes is because it is like a “Guess Where Vancouver” game as I (used to) know every inch of the lower mainland.
I had a conversation with a producer of a children’s cartoon in front of all the desk-workers working on graphics who said “all we do in the writer’s room is get drunk and stoned all day and write cartoons.”
Nice to know that children are in such good hands.
eyeroll
I think we must have been at the The Permanent building mentioned in this:
https://www.atlasofwonders.com/2017/01/riverdale-filming-locations.html
We play Cass McCombs for the dogs. They really like his stuff. Not joking. 🐕🐕🐕🐕
I just watched all of Sanditon – Masterpiece Theater. It’s definitely a lesser Jane Austen. I don’t think she finished the story before she died and it shows.
…I could be wrong but I think that was more extrapolation that adaptation?
I think you’re right. It felt more like a season of Poldark than Pride and Prejudice.
They were hoping for a second season, hence the unsatisfying ending that pissed everyone off.
Aaah! Now that makes sense. I thought it was very un Jane Austen for Charlotte to end up with no one.
The internets and Twitter were BIG MAD when the finale ended.
Skipped it. The older I get the more Jane Austen makes me cringe. But i just finished reading Proust, that will disillusion you about love.
I’m still watching The Durrells in Corfu. I don’t watch a lot of tv so it takes time to get through a show. And I’m still reading Anna Karenina, Tolstoy was one wordy dude. I swear he could have chopped a 1/4 of the book out by just using 1 name per person instead of 4 or 5 names each.
I’m watching “An Inspector Calls” on Amazon Prime. Downton Abby plus mystery-ish in one!
I’m currently watching “Pretty in Pink”.
Stick with the classics in a pandemic.
I started in on Foyle’s War on Acorn. It’s fun to play spot the actors, David Tennant shows up in Season 1 Ep. 3!
We have acorn and britbox. We enjoy that game too. Dci banks, midsomer,
whitechapel and death in paradise have a lot of crossover.