What was the last TV show you watched?

[Julian Shellhammer]

I had the same problem when I started watching Stranger Things in October. Initially I got a "Twin Peaks meets The X-Files" vibe, and I really didn't care for either of those shows, but I kept watching hoping I'd figure out what everyone else saw in the show. In the fourth or fifth episode the adult characters finally get their acts together and start to act more like responsible adults, and that was when it got more interesting to me. After completing the first season I thought it was still better than a lot of what's on television today, but now I'm second guessing whether or not I want to watch the second season when it becomes available.

Well put, sir!

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Visited brother- and sister- in-law for a birthday party and introduced them to Victoria; we re-watched the first three episodes with them and enjoyed the stories very much

 

[MisterCairo]

Last night's Taboo. The best episode so far!

 

[Fading Fast]

Last night's Taboo. The best episode so far!

Oh dear God - haven't seen it yet, but if they amp up the killing, the torture, the creepiness, the incest, the violence and the mumbling - if that is what "best episode so far!" means - I might need to take tomorrow off from work to reset my internal gyroscope so that I can, once again, interact with normal people.

 

[MisterCairo]

the torture

wait for it...

 

[Benzadmiral]

I think I spotted a couple of verbal anachronisms in this week's Victoria episode. One character ends a speech with, "Just saying." And at the end, Queen Victoria herself tells Sir Piers, "Keep up." Both of those sound late 20th-early 21st Century to me.

Victoria has been pretty good so far, with little to none of the anti-male stuff most modern TV and movies are suffused with.

 

[AmateisGal]

Episodes 5 and 6 of Victoria. Quite enjoyable, especially episode 6 with the steam locomotive and Albert and Victoria beginning to work together on her duties.

 

[AmateisGal]

I think I spotted a couple of verbal anachronisms in this week's Victoria episode. One character ends a speech with, "Just saying." And at the end, Queen Victoria herself tells Sir Piers, "Keep up." Both of those sound late 20th-early 21st Century to me.

Victoria has been pretty good so far, with little to none of the anti-male stuff most modern TV and movies are suffused with.

I noticed the "just saying" line, too, and thought, That can't be right! It's rather unfortunate that it snuck into the dialogue. Part of me wants to research it to see if there was ever a time before now that this line was used.

 

[Fading Fast]

I think I spotted a couple of verbal anachronisms in this week's Victoria episode. One character ends a speech with, "Just saying." And at the end, Queen Victoria herself tells Sir Piers, "Keep up." Both of those sound late 20th-early 21st Century to me.

Victoria has been pretty good so far, with little to none of the anti-male stuff most modern TV and movies are suffused with.

It doesn't have to be overtly anti-male as the premise itself - the woman as supreme ruler and the man in the role of "wife -" is the fantasy world all those anti-male modern shows strive for. Okay, that was a bit cheeky, and I will give them credit for handling the Lord M role with respect and showing - not unreasonably - that a teenage Queen would benefit from a close, somewhat tutorial, relationship with an experienced parliamentarian (and, in those days, that would have to be a man).

Away from all the modern-cultural bias stuff (it's everywhere if your antenna is up for it), it is funny that both this show and "The Crown" have almost the exact same "whiny, pay-attention-to-me man trying not to be eclipsed by his wife" theme. Period pieces say so much about the time in which they were made. If you are familiar with the politics of the '30s, you see how all those England / Spain at war, Errol Flynn, etc., period movies were influenced by the mood and prejudices of the time they were made.

 

[Touchofevil]

Last night's Taboo. The best episode so far!

Nice! It has been getting better with each episode.

 

[Touchofevil]

Another episode of Johnny Carson.

 

[Fading Fast]

Last night's Taboo. The best episode so far!

Super girlfriend got in a bit late last night which pushed everything out. When we finally stopped working and then catching up on this or that household issue and threw something together for dinner, we sat down exhausted, turned on the TV, saw "Taboo -" a show we both love - in the DVR queue and said, "love it, but can't go there - to that full-on world of intensity and crazy - right now." Hence, the Fading Fasts will watch it tomorrow - time permitting.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Taboo. SPOILERRRR!

what is the torture device called they used between his legs?

 

[AmateisGal]

Taboo. SPOILERRRR!

what is the torture device called they used between his legs?

Sheesh! I don't even want to know!

 

[MisterCairo]

Sheesh! I don't even want to know!

If you're referencing Taboo, then - Oh, yes you DO!

The final line of the episode is worth it on its own; pay attention to what Delaney says throughout...

 

[MisterCairo]

Most of the first episode, season three, of Wallander. Up late, couldn't quite finish it.

Gosh I like that show...

 

[AmateisGal]

If you're referencing Taboo, then - Oh, yes you DO!

The final line of the episode is worth it on its own; pay attention to what Delaney says throughout...

I haven't started watching Taboo and after seeing what people have said here, I'm not sure I want to!

 

[MisterCairo]

I haven't started watching Taboo and after seeing what people have said here, I'm not sure I want to!

Oh, but you do....

You do.....

 

[AmateisGal]

Oh, but you do....

You do.....

LOL!

 

[Touchofevil]

Oh, but you do....

You do.....

You really do.

We all do.