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Working my way through the second season of Master of None on Netflix. An excellent show.
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The 20th Century Limited documentary film covers a span of 65 years of operation
on the New York Central Railroad.
How was the documentary?
I was disappointed with the presentation, not the subject.
My fault.
I was expecting a “Ken Burns” style of documentary.
The introduction was fine, so were the images and interviews.
But throughout the entire production, they would cut back to
the person who did the introduction.
I would have preferred voice-overs with images/songs to stay with
the mood of a wonderful topic instead of cutting back to the guy
who did the introduction.
In a nut shell...Ken Burns documentary on “Baseball” has spoiled me.
I’m not quite sure if this reply makes any sense!
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Ken Burns' "Baseball' (regardless of some complaints about the tilt this way or that) is of incredibly professional production quality (I love it). The 20th Century one - I looked it up - is by a small historic-train niche company. Hence, to keep our baseball analogy going, Burns is the Majors and the 20th Century is AA ball. That said, still buying a ticket for the 20th Century the minute my time machine starts working.
I watched last night's episode (7/9/17 -- the third episode?), and found it fascinating.Recently watched the first two episodes of PBS' "My Mother and Other Strangers" and was surprised I hadn't heard a peep about it yet on FL (dear God, I hope it doesn't have its own thread here and I've just missed it).
Set in '43 in a small Irish town that became home to an army base during WWII, it follows the lives of several villagers as they "adjust" to the war overall and the base in their presence.
While not groundbreaking - "Foyle's War," the recent "Home Fires" and several other shows and movies have trod similar ground - it, so far, has had a few interesting story lines and is building out some three-dimensional characters with multiple-episodes story arcs.
And the village is gorgeous as are the period clothes, cars and architecture. Should be right in many FL members wheelhouse, including AmateisGal (hint, hint - you'll love it).
I watched last night's episode (7/9/17 -- the third episode?), and found it fascinating.
ETA: I checked; what I saw was episode 4. As my luck usually runs. When the SF magazines would serialize novels in the '70s, invariably I'd pick up the issue with part 3 of 4.