[Magdalen] What are we binge-watching?

[Chad Wohlers]

I'm about to watch the last episode (9th Inning) of Ken Burns' Baseball, 
which I've never seen. As the chronology gets later, I remember more and 
more. Then we get to the '69 miracle Mets, I remember it all, as I was 
home that summer, in between college & grad school, and my mother was a 
major Mets fan, even back to the days of Marvelous Marv Throneberry 
(whom they also mentioned ans showed "in action").

I'm seriously considering giving WGBH $60 so I can watch even more stuff.

And waiting for the snow to finally go away -

-- 
Chad Wohlers
chad at satucket.com
Woodbury, VT   USA


On 4/1/2020 12:19 PM, Ginga Wilder wrote:
> I am binge-watching "Call the Midwife" on Netflix  Several of my
> friends love this show, but John and I share a television and he has never
> been interested in it.  (He's watching Tiger King, which is not my thing.)
> I'm glad to have several years of episodes to look forward to.  Right now,
> I'm watching two/day.
>
> And, I confess, I am following MSNBC closely during my waking hours.  I
> make no apologies.
>
> Ginga
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:08 PM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I know we aren't all just reading. I KNOW we aren't. Come on, 'fess up.
>> I'll go first.
>>
>> We're watching "Picard", 2 episodes a night because Jack says that's all he
>> can digest. It *is* pretty dense and dark. After that I want to finish up
>> "Justified", which we started last year, and then go on to "Star Trek"
>> Discovery".
>>
>> By myself, I'm watching "Ancestral Land", a Russian series I discovered on
>> Amazon Prime. Think "War and Peace" as a 20th century telenovela. It's
>> amazing, although dark. I've really grown to love most of the characters,
>> especially Varvara.  I knew before watching it that Russia was probably one
>> of the most severely affected of all countries in WWII, but the way it's
>> portrayed in this drama really brings it home. A couple of scenes from last
>>   night...one where the military surgeon, standing in the snow outside the
>> hospital, confesses to the nurse standing beside him that  his "soul is
>> sick". Meanwhile, far away, his wife, a field nurse, is dragging her
>> captain, the only survivor of his unit, through the snow, trying to find
>> help, but he dies. Through the whole thing, there is kind of a common
>> thread....grandmothers. What a tough old bunch they are. And I keep
>> thinking, don't p*ss off the grandmothers. Anyway, I recommend the series,
>> despite the fact that the subtitles can be annoying and clumsy at times.
>>