What was the last TV show you watched?

[xwray]

I've read that the show has indeed been cancelled.

Too bad...I think it was a very good show in its earlier days.

 

[just_me]

Castle and Graham Norton.

 

[Antje]

I watched 2 dutch tv series on dvd.

de kris pusaka and de stille kracht (the hidden force)

both are about Indonesia

 

[4spurs]

Treme

Treme, best new show on HBO. John Goodman's character sets it straight in the first episode; Katrina was a natural disaster, the flood was man made; and then the show unfolds to show everyone why New Orleans is important; and like no other city on earth.

New Orleans is a town where double breasted suits and fedoras have never gone out of style; oh yeah, and there's the music and food too.

 

[Lady Day]

Small Island
Set in London just after WWII. It centers around one man, a Jamaican soldier, who both heroines are in love with for different reasons.

Hortense, the Jamaican heroine loves him not because he ever showed her any sort of romantic attention, but mainly he was an escape for her, out of her stagnant life on the island.

Queenie, the white heroine loves him for a different reason, hes suspect to be the father of her child to be.

Two women in love with the same man, thats a little tired, but every show needs a gimmick.

The one scene that I really liked was during the war when Queenie and another Jamaican solder (now Hortense's husband) went to a movie with Queenie's father-in-law, and they were standing in line. A British soldier tells him to get out of the white line and wait with the other black (American) soldiers over there.

The Jamaican soldier bluntly says, "There's no segregation here, this isnt America!"

I really like the husbands of both heroines they seem complex and non transparent. All the characters seem dimensional, and thats just for great tv watching.

When I get a chance to see the next episode, Im gonna.

LD

 

[Sincerely-Dee]

I've read the book but I didn't know it had been adapted into a television series. That's definitely something I'd be interested in watching.

Small Island
Set in London just after WWII. It centers around one man, a Jamaican soldier, who both heroines are in love with for different reasons.

Hortense, the Jamaican heroine loves him not because he ever showed her any sort of romantic attention, but mainly he was an escape for her, out of her stagnant life on the island.

Queenie, the white heroine loves him for a different reason, hes suspect to be the father of her child to be.

Two women in love with the same man, thats a little tired, but every show needs a gimmick.

The one scene that I really liked was during the war when Queenie and another Jamaican solder (now Hortense's husband) went to a movie with Queenie's father-in-law, and they were standing in line. A British soldier tells him to get out of the white line and wait with the other black (American) soldiers over there.

The Jamaican soldier bluntly says, "There's no segregation here, this isnt America!"

I really like the husbands of both heroines they seem complex and non transparent. All the characters seem dimensional, and thats just for great tv watching.

When I get a chance to see the next episode, Im gonna.

LD

 

[Lady Day]

I never read the book, but I dont see how this can be sustainable as an ongoing tv series. Im hoping its a mini series because the first ep (87min) covered the entire war and some aftermath.

There is some narration, Im not sure if he's an omnipresent narrator, or a character, but I have an idea.

LD

 

[deadpandiva]

I wathced a documentry on the Brittanic yesterday. It left me a little scarred emotionaly.

 

[Chas]

Mythbusters. I can't bring myself to watch network TV, and as such my tv is mostly a home theatre.

 

[vinspired]

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I Have been reacquainting my self with "Mapp & Lucia" twelve episodes of the classic E. F Benson books, set in the English Country of Tilling, in 1930, amazing costume design

Mapp & Lucia is perhaps best described as an affectionate salute to British eccentricity. It is packed with larger than life characters, who treat seemingly innocuous occasions such as village fetes as if they were matters of life and death. Geraldine McEwan (currently incarnating Miss Marple) stars as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas, an unconventional widow who swoops upon her quaint village of Tilling, where she soon ousts Miss Mapp (Prunella Scales) as the reigning party hostess. Lucia and her fey companion Georgie (Nigel Hawthorne) are a seemingly unsinkable pairing, but Mapp doesn't give up that easily. McEwan and Hawthorne are a superb double-act. Babbling in baby-talk (using "me" instead of "I", "ickle" instead of "little"), their feigned innocence masks a rivalry, which comes to the fore in a hilarious piano duet which soon turns into a duel. Scales also excels as Lucia's formidable opponent, her faux bonhomie failing to conceal her self-centred rudeness. A stock of excellent character actors fill in the numerous supporting roles, but it's the joyous moments when Mapp and Lucia lock horns that make this wonderful series such a classic of British TV.

I am halfway through the Mapp and Lucia series. I just love the costumes, especially Lucia's.
Lucia's Italian makes me laugh - Geraldine McEwan plays her well, but I can't stop seeing Miss Marple!

Au Reservoir!

 

[LordBest]

Around the World in 80 Gardens with Monty Don.

 

[Antje]

The Tudors, last season, almost the last part

 

[Chas]

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"Caribou......gone!"

 

[Lady Day]

Betty White host SNL.
Ive watched ever episode of Golden Girls like three times so I had to watch!
As milquetoast as SNL has been throughout my adult life, I did smile quite a bit with her bits.

LD

 

[vinspired]

Last night I watched the return of Foyle's War - the Russian House.
As always, I found it thoroughly entertaining - I am glad it's back

I loved the pants outfit that Sam wore - wish I could find a picture of it.

 

[Joeyeah_right]

Fringe

The last thing I watched was Fringe last night (a new episode for those of us in the UK) - It was the episode where most of the action was set in a kind of anachronistic 1940's / 50's where everyone wore suits and fedoras, and drove old cars (but they also had cell phones and computers). I loved the hat that the character of Peter Bishop wore and also the one that the character of Olivia Dunham wore. Great hats!

Also, the singing corpses! That bit made me laugh!

 

[Sincerely-Dee]

Goodnight Sweetheart.

It's a British sitcom about a guy who finds a time portal back to war time London and continues to lead a double life between the 90s and the 40s.

 

[Tomasso]

Malcolm in the Middle for the first time yesterday. Pretty funny, I must admit.

Bryan Cranston is a talent......

 

[Feraud]

The last thing I watched was Fringe last night (a new episode for those of us in the UK) - It was the episode where most of the action was set in a kind of anachronistic 1940's / 50's where everyone wore suits and fedoras, and drove old cars (but they also had cell phones and computers). I loved the hat that the character of Peter Bishop wore and also the one that the character of Olivia Dunham wore. Great hats!

Also, the singing corpses! That bit made me laugh!

I've been watching Fringe since it first aired but missed this one!

Betty White host SNL.
Ive watched ever episode of Golden Girls like three times so I had to watch!
As milquetoast as SNL has been throughout my adult life, I did smile quite a bit with her bits.

LD

I enjoyed the show but felt Betty White's use of naughty language felt forced. No doubt behind the scenes a room full of hipster writers pondered long and hard how to make this eighty something actress appeal to the young crowd.

 

[vinspired]

Goodnight Sweetheart.

It's a British sitcom about a guy who finds a time portal back to war time London and continues to lead a double life between the 90s and the 40s.

That is such a brilliant show - I really liked the first season.