[Magdalen] What are we binge-watching?

[ME Michaud]

Me too.
Call the Midwife has been such a revelation. I never realized quite how
pervasively male television has been all my life.
Read the book it's based on, if you can find it. It's stunning, especially
Sr. Monica Joan's last proclamation/witness.
-M


On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> 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.
> >
>