Thanks, I thought it might have been one of those anachronisms that creep into period dramas. The song could have been known to the producers from that Tarantino movie, Now, 'weaponising" ...
This is my current favorite show "Expedition with Steve Backshall" and Season 2.Traveling the world to remote locations and many amazing places.Many potentially very dangerous to. This is a preview of an upcoming episode..don't look down
I keep coming back to Call the Midwife. I’ll watch a couple of seasons then take a break for a year or two then come back to it. Interesting thing about it. There are currently 11 seasons with more too come which I think is extremely atypical for BBC series.
Just been watching - and enjoying - the original. I do prefer the earlier series when James had the more attractive wife. It's not her, though, it's the kids and too much Callum that make the later series less good. I've enjoyed the remake too.
Agree conpletely on the original Helen, she was wonderful. The second one a bit of a shrew.. LOL. Spot on about the kids and Callum too. And no Mrs. Hall
Grantchester, Guilt. Looking forward to Annika in October. By the time I get to see season 1, season 2 will probably be ready.
I assume this was while Tristan was being another kind of doctor and someone thought Callum's awful on-off romance would be an adequate replacement for his hi jinx
the last episode I saw opens with Johnny B Goode from an LP played in a seniors residence! the matron who puts a stop to the music soon comes to her end. And the name of her character was Fletcher. I had already seen her as a Nurse Ratched coincidence?
Watched the season ending today, quite good but was in large part a follow up to an earlier episode, and would have been easier to follow if I could rewatch the earlier one. Anyways, was that a Connie Francis song Sydney was listening to? If so, quite out of character. Then towards the happy ending some version of I Will Follow Her (sung by a man) got a short spin. Since that tune originated in 1961 and got it's major hit credit when done in 1963 by Little Peggy March, I have to call anachronism?
I agree - American Experience is probably my favorite show on TV. It seems as if most episodes are inspired by or tied to a book on the same subject. I’ve been turned in to many good books because of it.
American Experience is now airing a two-part series, entitled "Taken Hostage," about the history of U.S. involvement in Iran's affairs, starting with the overthrow of Mossadegh, the Shah's reign of terror (with his secret police known as SAVAK), Khomenei's exile in France and his return, and the subsequent fall of the U.S. embassy and the hostage crisis. It is really well done, blending vintage footage with talking head interviews. The entire series is almost four hours, and it is both horrifying and fascinating at the same time. American Experience | Part 1 |Taken Hostage | American Experience | Season 34 | Episode 5 | PBS
I caught the second part but I want to see the first part as well. There was another doc aired recently all about the big crazy party city the Shah had built to 'entertain' notables and powers from around the world with big parades drawing on the past to the present... caviar, champagne, specially constructed individual luxury accommodations, fresh plants dragged in to replace what died off because it was in what had been a desert, they even had scorpion exterminators that were always very busy. People there despised the man even more after that huge waste of money on behalf of foreigners. Of course the place returned mostly to unlivable desert again pretty quickly.
Lol . . . good minds think alike, except that you watched the second part, and I have only watched the first part! The U.S. should have never overthrown Mossadegh to begin with, and we might not be dealing with a nuclear-armed and hostile Islamic theocracy as we are today. The late Chalmers Johnson popularized the term "blow back" to describe the unintended consequences of U.S. actions (often better referred to as "interference") abroad. Same concept as the "chickens have come home to roost."
Me. Rogers' Neighborhood The King Friday puppetry is good and is basically a morality play about Friday's machinations and desires. Lady Elaine Fairchilde adds an interesting character as well.
I really like Endeavour, but it starts falling into the Murder She Wrote trap, where you start doing the math in your head of how many murders could there possibly be in a relatively small, countryside university town...
We've been enjoying Miss Scarlet & the Duke SEASON 2 FINALE TONIGHT 11/20 Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) stars as the headstrong, first-ever female detective in Victorian London, who won’t let any naysayers stop her from keeping her father’s business running. Stuart Martin (Jamestown) stars as her childhood friend, professional colleague, and potential love interest, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector William Wellington, a.k.a., The Duke.
