The TV thread

But also it's a soap opera. No one is ever truly dead.

 

That woman who told his first wife about it use to be on the CBS shows that I use to watch. Always interesting to get a peek now and then and see the same people still there. Great steady work.
I tuned in to watch the Guiding Light finale. Go way back with my mother and Nana watching those in the early 60s. Lots of people spent their early careers on them as you all probably know. One I think of is Tommy Lee Jones playing a troubled Vietnam vet. Also, Kevin Bacon a young alcoholic. etc.

 

started watching Days of our Lives in college - when I got home from classes I didn't have cable so it was either that, Home Shopping Network, a PBS kids show or a televangelist. Watched it pretty solid for a year or so and I was stunned how little would happen during a week of the show - the same two people would be in the same room having the same discussion, these "professionals" would spend a solid week at "the office" or "hospital" and never be shown doing their jobs (unless it involved caring for another key cast member), but could have 20 minute phone calls with a significant other - the capper was always how DOOL could kill 10 seconds at a time - a full minute of an hour long program just pointing the camera at someone with an enigmatic look on their face.
Then I realized the show would constantly introduce a "new stranger" at the beginning of a season - usually the fall, and have them become romantically involved with one of the regulars, interfereing with their relationships with others etc. and you were left trying to figure out their motivation - whether an unknown connection to an existing character or just a douchebag brought in to stir crap up.

 

One of the things I bought my mother for Christmas was a year of PBS Passport. I'm now the proud owner of a PBS Nerd mug because she loves the programming and informed me she is NOT a nerd. This week I got my first look at the new version of All Creatures Great and Small. They cast an actual Scot to play James. Diana Rigg was still gorgeous as dotty Mrs. Pumphrey. Finally, it's hard to believe that Sam West is older than Robert Hardy was when he started playing Siegfried. Maybe it's a matter of filters. I was 14 when I watched the original and in my fifties for this go-round.


Also watching Austin City Limits, Art: 21, and Craft In America. Craft in America is a good pick for anyone who enjoys the history of objects. Gullah basketweavers, New England boatwrights, legacy lure designers, and Gee's Bend quilters are among the people who have been profiled on CiA.

 

Would love one more season of Daria when she and Quinn are in their late 20s or early 30s.

 

Quinn is an anti-vaxxer who’s shit out at least three kids by now.

 

And one of Quinn’s daughters is just like Aunt Daria. And the other is just as vacuous as Quinn was.

 

I started reading "Queen Sugar," the novel that inspired the TV show. The names of the characters aren't even all the same, let alone the backstory. I'm intrigued to see where the book goes.

 

On the plane approaching Atlanta binging sporadic episodes of The Office (having never sat thru an entire season) and the last scene in Baby Shower (S5E3) between Pam and Jim (when they're leaving messages on each other's phone) is one of the best things I've ever seen on TV.

 

Actually, Quinn stopped at three. After the boy left her with a prolapsed vagina, she browbeat her outwardly alpha beta cuck finance bro husband into getting a vasectomy.

 

Dammit, Oscar, I’ve had “London Homesick Blues” in the back of my head all day and This. Is. Not. Helping.