What are we watching on TV?

Laurie61

Laurie61

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1JKz said:
Fleabag

Though, this was found by mistake when i was trying to catch-up with something else, caught it on BBC3 via iPlayer, why has BBC3 left our TV's again??
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Taken off air due to cut backs after our licence fee didn't go down, along with live F1 and golf. :hmm:
 
Sarah B

Sarah B

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I watched Naked Attraction on Channel 4. Well what can I say? If we all saw our partners naked at the start we would not have hooked up with them!
 
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Also just watched the first episode of this -

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- which is promising, but only if you have Netflix.
 
Gadget

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Has anyone seen Stranger Things on Netflix? I'm interested in watching it but, with my state of mind being as it is, it's very important that it's not going to upset me. Without giving me any details, will it make me cry? I'm talking child/animal death mainly. Child peril is fine but I'm not going to handle it right now if they or a pet dies. Thanks.
 
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Gadget said:
Has anyone seen Stranger Things on Netflix?
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Yes - #554 ^above
I'm interested in watching it but, with my state of mind being as it is, it's very important that it's not going to upset me. Without giving me any details, will it make me cry? I'm talking child/animal death mainly. Child peril is fine but I'm not going to handle it right now if they or a pet dies. Thanks.
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None of that kind of caper - watch it, i'm hooked. Just watched 2 & 3 so can vouch that far.

But i swear to Whatever, if this goes and does a 'LOST' on me, i will really lose my shit...
 
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& I said:
if this goes and does a 'LOST' on me, i will really lose my shit...
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By which i mean...

I was HUGELY attached and invested in the first series of LOST - but much in the way that we now apparently live in a 'post-truth' era, politically speaking, we have foreshadowingly lived in a 'post-story-telling' era for much longer.

The roots of it all are probably similar enough to support some sort of comparative analysis worthy of an MA - maybe even a PhD if the word count fits.

If you'll indulge me and accept LOST as our starting point, i will further elucidate.

It is more than likely that an earlier example can be found - but this was the one that 'kicked me' as it were. I half-remember a quote from the writing team saying something along the lines of - 'we have storylines that could keep us going' sort of ad infinitum.

We live in an Age where good stories are told with one eye on making them last longer - we are aware that a Good Story should have a Beginning, a Middle, and an End - but the business of story telling has changed, and along with it our expectations of what a story IS has changed also.

We now accept, with notable exceptions, that a good story must have a Beginning, a Middle, a Middle, a Middle, a Middle* and then a Cessation brought about by necessity rather than design.

* add or subtract as befitting

And i do believe this is something that has been accepted. It is an accruing. We no longer expect an End, only an ongoing Middle.This seems to be our accepted 'take' of our Political narrative also - to what 'end' do we expend our energy? Our energy of thought and action? There is no 'end', no 'goal' - we are stuck in the Middle of a banal story, waiting to be recommissioned for another series.

Anyone for Monkey Tennis?
 
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