[Magdalen] What are we binge-watching?

[Marilyn Cepeda]

We have watched Westworld and several old movies.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:08 AM 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.
>
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Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda