[Magdalen] What are we binge-watching?

[Mahoney, W. Michael]

Are countless games of Free Cell the equivalent of binge watching?


Mike Mahoney
Stoneledge
446 Long Mountain Road
Washington, VA 22747



On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:12 PM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>