What's on your TV these days?

[zgirl]

The funeral is the 19th and I'm going to take off that day to view it.  I'm doing this for both myself and my mother (English) who isn't with us anymore.  She would have been glued to the tv set.


Funeral activities



https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62861617

Did not watch the entire procession, but I loved the fact that Emma, Muick and Sandy were included. 

[Strawboss]

We got up at 7AM EST to watch. The Brits got pageantry down. Very nice. I turned off the U.S. coverage and went to PBS which was basically the feed sent around the world but with MINIMAL talking. God almighty, we Americans simply cannot go 2 seconds without inane prattle about what we are watching, as if, somehow we need commentary, and, from the liberal morons we have here. Anybody see Harry and his wife not bowing? I know how it is to be in dress uniform for hours at a time, but to walk that distance, truly a mark of supreme loyalty to Queen, country and duty, did you catch the Grenadier Guards hitting the military posted along the road when neither would move? I'm no Monarchist, but I can't sit here and say no tears were shed this AM. Truly an era has past, never to be seen again.

[zgirl]

We got up at 7AM EST to watch. The Brits got pageantry down. Very nice. I turned off the U.S. coverage and went to PBS which was basically the feed sent around the world but with MINIMAL talking. God almighty, we Americans simply cannot go 2 seconds without inane prattle about what we are watching, as if, somehow we need commentary, and, from the liberal morons we have here. Anybody see Harry and his wife not bowing? I know how it is to be in dress uniform for hours at a time, but to walk that distance, truly a mark of supreme loyalty to Queen, country and duty, did you catch the Grenadier Guards hitting the military posted along the road when neither would move? I'm no Monarchist, but I can't sit here and say no tears were shed this AM. Truly an era has past, never to be seen again.

Amen
I didn't make it past the 30 second mark on U.S. coverage.  Went to PBS also. 

[FTB530]

I watch movies on Prime when im bored or you tube.

[VirginiaJim]

Well, it's that time of year again....elections.  The political ads have started from both sides.  Typically they occur around the news programs.  I'm not watching local news until the elections are over.  More Youtube, Netflix, Prime, and HBOmax.

[Strawboss]

We got a copy of PT-109 as my wife has never seen it. I'm no Kennedy fan but it was a decent film for 60's color war films.

[VirginiaJim]

I think I've gotten around the political ads on the news.  I just tape the first hour and then I can FF through the commercials.  It's a three hour newscast and I'm just doing the first hour.  The second and third hours are basically repeats.

[Strawboss]

"Mallorca" Brit buddy cop show. Female detective gets stuck in Mallorca and is teamed with a German detective on assignment there and they solve crimes. Funny/serious, it's ok.

[Strawboss]

"Crimson Fields" another Brit/PBS offering about WWI nurses at a field hospital in France in 1915. Depressing as hell but a historically interesting period, and as always, the Brits have the clothing/hair/uniforms down pat, lots of familiar faces in the cast too.

[DC Concours]

Where do you guys find all these British shows? I watch a few of what I find on Netflix and Hulu.

[Strawboss]

We don't go to the movies, meaning, I don't don't pay Hollyweird. So, every single thing I watch that isn't on free TV, which, BTW, is only 2 shows a week, we get free at the library, everything. I write down something I like, then either go to the library and request it and get on a list like we are for "Top Gun-Maverick" and "1883", or, from home I go to the county library site and request things. If I'm at the library itself, I walk through the selections of DVD's and most times stumble onto these titles. By doing this, almost always we are 2-3 years behind everyone that has watched these films or shows.....not a problem for us.

[VirginiaJim]

I see most of them via Prime with Britbox and Acorn added.  Also PBS in our ( yours as well if you get the DC and MD channels) area televises quit a few.  Watching Van der Valk on one of the locals, don't remember which one at the moment, Masterpiece Theater.

[zgirl]

We don't go to the movies, meaning, I don't don't pay Hollyweird. So, every single thing I watch that isn't on free TV, which, BTW, is only 2 shows a week, we get free at the library, everything. I write down something I like, then either go to the library and request it and get on a list like we are for "Top Gun-Maverick" and "1883", or, from home I go to the county library site and request things. If I'm at the library itself, I walk through the selections of DVD's and most times stumble onto these titles. By doing this, almost always we are 2-3 years behind everyone that has watched these films or shows.....not a problem for us.

I am convinced that one of the reasons we were able to build and pay off our present home is because we have not paid for any type of cable or subscription television since the mid '90's.  Even when we stay at a hotel and we see what we are missing, we realize we aren't missing anything.   

[zgirl]

Where do you guys find all these British shows? I watch a few of what I find on Netflix and Hulu.

As others have posted, PBS has a number of British shows.  Many are quite good.

[Strawboss]

Just started "1883". VERY confusing. Watching 2nd episode, better get better quick of we are ditching it. Who is who? No names and of those said no first names are given or spoken. We are scrolling through and pausing the credits and using conjecture to see or try to find out who is who.

[zgirl]

Just started "1883". VERY confusing. Watching 2nd episode, better get better quick of we are ditching it. Who is who? No names and of those said no first names are given or spoken. We are scrolling through and pausing the credits and using conjecture to see or try to find out who is who.

Okay, the young boy is John Dutton (perhaps John's Grand-Dad considering the timeline 1883 vs. 2020's). 
Margaret (Faith Hill) and I can't remember the Dad's name, James? (Tim McGraw) are young John's and Elsa's parents. 

I agree that it is confusing if you are trying to link to Yellowstone.

We made it through all of the episodes and went back later and watched it a second time and it made more sense.

The story needs to stand on it's own.  It tells the story of John Dutton's ancestors crossing Tennessee,Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, etc. heading to Oregon with a wagon train of immigrants from Germany, Russia and Slavic areas.  They have never been free and are determined unto death to live free in this country.

It is hard to watch some of the pain and tragedy that is part of our country's history, but I think they did a good job.

My biggest criticism is Elsa's Tennessee accent.  How in the world did she not pick up on Faith and Tim's real life accents?     Bill said it is because she is from Santa Monica.... 

On the plus side, that girl can sit a horse and reminds me a bit of me at that age as I also had no fear, loved horses and love adventure.

It broke my heart in several scenes, but the last episode does take you to where the Dutton Ranch began.

Bill says Closed Captioning / Subtitles helps....

[zgirl]

The first episode is a bunch of patches that later become a quilt.   

It's complicated....

[Boomer]

New series of Top Gear started on Sunday on BBC1.
They travelled across Thailand in pickups and Chris Harris got to drive the Rimac Nevera nutter car.
2000bhp, $2,500,000 but 0-60 in 2 secs and eats other supercars for breakfast.
Now that Paddy has gotten over his idiotic laddish behaviour the current presenters seem to have settled into a fun to watch trio. Worth watching.

[Strawboss]

Yes, for a Yankee, I could tell right off the bat that her accent was not TN, but then my family is in AL and that's right next door. Many times I'm hitting the closed captions with dialogue issues or just poor sound too. And many times, I'm throwing the BS flag for situations and conversations that would not EVER have happened in 1883, but artistic license is sometimes needed to move the story along fill in blanks where a written story would have used 5 pages. Well acted but damn, what an amazingly depressing story. Pioneers were tough. No wonder none of them were ever smiling in the old photos you see. 

[zgirl]

Yes, for a Yankee, I could tell right off the bat that her accent was not TN, but then my family is in AL and that's right next door. Many times I'm hitting the closed captions with dialogue issues or just poor sound too. And many times, I'm throwing the BS flag for situations and conversations that would not EVER have happened in 1883, but artistic license is sometimes needed to move the story along fill in blanks where a written story would have used 5 pages. Well acted but damn, what an amazingly depressing story. Pioneers were tough. No wonder none of them were ever smiling in the old photos you see.

True that.

I remember my grandfather telling me about moving and getting a job at US Steel in the 20's.  He had been a farmer in GA. 

He said it was always too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry for the crops...... 

Dad never farmed but he worked at Fairfield works and the Sloss Furnace and used to empty his boots of all the sweat at the end of day.

Many in this generation have no idea......