[Magdalen] What are we binge-watching?

[Scott Knitter]

My dear husband controls the TV remote, so we've binged Airline Disasters
(far better than the title makes it sound...yes, it's about plane crashes,
and recreated with superb realism although sparing us any gratuitous
gore...it's all about what happened and the investigation into how and why,
and what good came out of the tragedy or mishap...not all are fatal
crashes...lots of learning about how planes fly, and very occasionally fail
to do so.). He's now re-binging Chernobyl, which I agree is excellent, but
once through it was enough for me. I've had too much work lately to be
binging anything...where's all this time we're all supposed to have? (But
this all means I still have my job and lots of work to do...TBTG.)

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 2:05 PM Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> --
> Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA