[Magdalen] What are we binge-watching?

[Marion Thompson]

Too much Facebook, our CBC , CNN, General Hospital.  are what's on,
although I'm usually doing other things, except for GH when I use the
entertainment to make my stationary biking pass quickly..  I guess that is
doing another thing, too.
My grandson put Netflix on my TV, don't know if it's permanent.  I binge
watched 'The Stranger' the other day, a Brit offering.  I may watch
Shetland., also Brit.

Marion, a pilgrim

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:11 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>