In these long days of winter and especially in the horrible weather we’ve been having recently I’ve been watching TV, even in the afternoon sometimes. In fact this afternoon was one of those days when I drew the curtains at 3.30 because it was just so dark and dreich (dismal) that the best thing to do was just shut it all out.
I scrolled down the TV menu and was amazed to see the words Three Pines – could it be the same Three Pines I wondered? And amazingly it was – Still Life. I’m not even sure that I knew that they had made a film of one of the Louise Penny books. I was/am puzzled though as to why they chose an English actor (Nathaniel Parker) to play Armand Gamache. Anyway I enjoyed it although of course inevitably it had been sanitised,, especially Ruth Zardo, who was nothing like the anarchic character in the book, but fair enough, they couldn’t have an old lady in a film ‘effing’ her way through life as she does in the books.
Otherwise I’ve been enjoying watching Capital, which is intriguing.
Also The Detectorists. That Toby Jones chap is getting around!
The Last Kingdom has been a must watch for us, it’s historical and thankfully it’s not the Tudor period. It’s King Alfred and Vikings, I’m unsure whose side I’m on!
Doctor Who is also a must watch but this series is bizarre. Each time I think it’s getting better, it is followed by a distinctly weird episode.
London Spy has turned out to be a good spy/thriller series even although it is obviously based on something which was in the news a few years ago, involving a spy who was into weird sex – it’s fine once you get past that bit.
Well that’s what I’ve been watching recently, have you seen anything else which is worth watching?
Still love Dr Who and find this doctor fascinating, if more bizarre than usual. And usual is pretty darned bizarre. US TV is different, but we watch a lot of police procedurals (like NCIS) and the like. I’ve been watching Dancing With the Stars this season, for the first time in forever, because I liked more than a couple of the contestants. Was quite pleased with the outcome.
Pearl,
Over the last couple of weeks Doctor Who has been very strange. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in it later today. I usually don’t even know any of the people on Strictly Come Dancing so I avoid it, which is quite difficult as it seems to be on most of Saturday night. We get a lot of NCIS reruns.
Doctor Who has been weird this season, hasn’t it? And the last episode wit Me and Clara travelling together in a TARDIS. That is not going to end well.
Stefanie,
I’m so looking forward to the Christmas day episode!