We watched a lot of Doc Martin a couple years ago but drifted on to other things. We both enjoyed it and need to put it back in the rotation.An episode of Doc Martin on PBS the other night. It’s more entertaining than a lot of shows out there.
We watched a lot of Doc Martin a couple years ago but drifted on to other things. We both enjoyed it and need to put it back in the rotation.An episode of Doc Martin on PBS the other night. It’s more entertaining than a lot of shows out there.
It is a nice escape from the harshness of the real world. The humor and picturesque settings of the make for an enjoyable evening.If the Hallmark Channel did things better, it would make shows like "Doc Martin." And I mean that as a compliment, as I like DM for a respite the harshness of the world and most TV today, but as opposed to Hallmark, it isn't cloying or overly simplistic.
At some point ( probably when the season is over) I will start season three of True Detective. Despite the negative reviews, I look forward to watching it.Currently watching the second to last episode of season 3 of True Detective.
My wife started watching the show shortly after it was put on. I agree with your assessment, but I have had a crush on Catherine Bell since Jag days so it was an easy watch for me in spite of the syrup the entire show is covered in.Starting last week, the Missus has been binging on The Good Witch, and I will catch some shows now and then. The Hallmark Channel programs seem to be strongly formulaic, with pristine, perfectly coiffed characters living in pristine, perfectly coiffed small towns working at lovely antiques stores, cozy catering companies, or at a house remodeling company where at the end of the day the owner and workers are as pristine and perfectly coiffed as at the start of their shift.
Which is not to say I sneer at elegant sets, excellent lighting, and nice-looking characters delivering romantic comedy: I sit down and watch these stories with my sweetie for the sheer light-as-a-bubble entertainment.
Sex Eduction, the first season from Netflix
- Like most TV shows about high school, everything is exaggerated and amped up, but oddly it all works in a crazy way
- Be aware, the show is not shy in talking about and showing all types of sex / I assume kids are much more active today than in the '70s (when I was in high school), but holy cow, this show argues it's a brave - and very sexually active - new high school world
- The premise - a kid with a sex therapist for a mom teams up with a pretty, anti-social girl to offer sex ed advice for pay to the other kids - is, of course, ridiculous, but it's just a ploy to do what good shows do - build three-dimensional characters that have real-life interactions amidst the TV scripts' excesses
- All the modern political pieties are bowed to and, even though I agree with most of them, the agenda pushing and virtue signaling is obnoxious. Hollywood just can't seem to help itself
- But as noted, if you let the extreme moments go by and aren't jarred by the graphic sex show-and-tell, then you can enjoy the interesting high school characters facing real life problems that - while in a modern context - are still pretty timeless