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TV Series - What Are You Watching?

Had a bit of spare time lately, during the day and have been watching on YouTube a young Canadian couple building their home in the wilderness from scratch. Self sufficient, growing their own food, installing solar panels, using battery power.
It's amazing how they've used their creativeness and iniative to live off grid.
It's so remote, the only way in is by boat amongst some fabulous scenery.
Another one I was watching today where a young couple were building a log cabin using only hand tools. Chopping down large trees ( no chainsaw) for the cabin, chopping and chiselling the notches to interlock them to build the walls. Fascinating to watch, if you like that sort of thing.
 
Mid point of 'Dead to Me' 2nd series. Nice subtle humour.
But they talk so fast we resorted to sub-titles
We really enjoyed this.
Thought Linda Cardellini & Christina Applegate were brilliant together.

Applegate struggled to film season 3 due to multiple sclerosis & as now retired.
Very sad.
 
We really enjoyed this.
Thought Linda Cardellini & Christina Applegate were brilliant together.

Applegate struggled to film season 3 due to multiple sclerosis & as now retired.
Very sad.
WE have just finished season 3 2 and really enjoyed it. Does her illness spoil the programme?
 
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First one was on Sunday just gone, normal ITV at 9pm. Unless you got the HG Wells time travel gizmo working?
Ha ha I’m not sure but this review is from back in March…

Maybe they released it on ITVx back then and have only just started to show it on normal tv 🤔
Sometimes stuff is released on ITVX (or perhaps released on an 'obscure' channel) and then put out at a later date on ITV1 - and called a 'new drama'. Have never been sure why they do it - and seems a bit of a sconce to call it new? But I know there's some stuff we've sat down to watch as 'new' then as it starts, go " hang on, we've seen this before ..."
 
Finished The Pacific last night.

A tough but, for me, important watch.

The words Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa are now more than words and places I heard or read about the US fighting the Japaneses in the war in the pacific (I also learned a new one…Peleliu), and I understand the significance of the US marine corps memorial Arlington. Makes me reflect rather sadly on the present day US.
 
Finished The Pacific last night.

A tough but, for me, important watch.

The words Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa are now more than words and places I heard or read about the US fighting the Japaneses in the war in the pacific (I also learned a new one…Peleliu), and I understand the significance of the US marine corps memorial Arlington. Makes me reflect rather sadly on the present day US.
A typical American film making the Yanks heroes and the Japanese just running into machine gunfire like lambs to the slaughtered.
 
A typical American film making the Yanks heroes and the Japanese just running into machine gunfire like lambs to the slaughtered.
perhaps…but it showed pretty viscerally the horror that is war…and we these days in this country can easily talk about war in a pretty disconnected way, as if the horrors of what actually physically and mentally happens to our fellow human beings in war is somehow simply a matter of fact - when its actually a horror.
 
I finished watching Bodies (Netflix) mix of Sci Fi (time travel) and police work. Thoroughly enjoyed it

Started The Night Agent (Netflix) last night if you liked 24 you would like this
 
Having finished the last if the John Wick films I am on to The Continental. One episode it and a nice, gritty 70s feel, remind me if action films from my childhood. Enjoying it
 
Having finished the last if the John Wick films I am on to The Continental. One episode it and a nice, gritty 70s feel, remind me if action films from my childhood. Enjoying it
The second one wasn't great but stick with it for the 3rd. The 3rd, and last, is cracking stuff.
 
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