What's your favorite TV show right now?

[Qswee]

I mostly watch series on Netflix like Who Killed Sara, Lupin and recently Shadow and Bone

[frugallyzing]

Who Killed Sarah is not English though, right?

[Hereware]

Check out the New Amsterdam. Great show.

[kristina]

Just had a chance to watch a semi-documentary with brilliant actors about Saddam Hussein : The Rise and Fall of Saddam. A most interesting and brilliantly played docudrama...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_A4imH8dU

[Riki]

I've been watching The Incredible Dr. Pol on Disney+.  I love watching veterinary shows because I tend to learn a lot from them.  Dr. Pol's practice is in Central Michigan, so a lot of his patients are large animals like cows and horses, but they've had some camels, zebras, and anything else you might think of

[frugallyzing]

The Kingdon on Netflix is a thrilling show.

[kristina]

Young Harry Houdini - 1987

A biographical movie about the magician Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926) who, as a youngster, ran away from home and joined the travelling show of "Dr. Grimaldi", where he learned the tricks of a magician and a little mystery from his Indian assistant, too...

This movie is perhaps mainly about the difference between looking and seeing ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtseCXfAoo

[kristina]

"Pocketful of Miracles" is a 1961 American comedy film and can be watched - at the moment - on YouTube, starring Bette Davis and Glenn Ford, and directed by Frank Capra, filmed in Panavision.

A lovely cheer-up comedy with lots of laughs and some very clever and wonderfully witty one-liners  ... 

P.S. Before I forget, Peter Falk presents himself in this movie at his very very best ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY5-lXZaSYQ

[kristina]

Whilst trying my best to recover for "my" terrible Sepsis-experience, I am watching some (free) movies on YouTube and this movie from 1974 with Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif is possibly one of the most logical and very best spy-movies ...

The Tamarind Seed (1974-En)≈ HD, Julie Andrews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6u0j7cyfqI

[okarol]

Hello - I haven't posted in a long time but always like seeing if there's something new and interesting to watch.

I am currently watching "Only Murders in the Building" with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez. It's on Hulu. Liking it so far.
Have been trying to stick with "Succession" but it's up and down for me.
I was watching "Handmaid's Tale" - so much stress that I am taking a break.

Hope you're all well and finding good stuff to watch as we plod along in this seemingly never ending pandemic.

[SooMK]

Hi Okarol! So nice to see your familiar name here.

I could not stick with "Only Murders in the Building" except I did love watching Selena Gomez (CKD warrior) interacting with the old dudes.

I agree about "Handmaids Tale". I watched the first season but I'm finally acknowledging that highly tense entertainment doesn't work for me.

I recently subscribed to Acorn TV (Turns out I meant to subscribe to Britbox so I could watch the series based on the Cormoran Strike books. Oh well, maybe next year). On Acorn TV, we've been watching the Australian series "Jack Irish" and enjoying it very much. We had previously watched "Mystery Road" (I think on Amazon Prime), a movie which was great and the lead actor has a part in "Jack Irish". It turns out there are only maybe 10 actors in all of Australia or all of the UK and it's fun watching them in all their roles.

Anyone else find their TV taste is changing? I stumbled about the Turner Classic Movie channels (who knew we had them?) and it made me think of the old days of live TV when you'd turn on the TV and find yourself in the middle of a movie and it was all good.

[MooseMom]

SooMK, we have AcornTV and have been enjoying several shows, though we have yet to start Jack Irish.  We liked Mystery Road but have not yet seen the second season.  For something a bit lighter, we're watching "My Life is Murder" when for season 2 has relocated to New Zealand.  It's always fun to see someplace "foreign".

We're watching Star Trek: Discovery and are rewatching Babylon 5, a sci fi series from the mid 90s that seems very prescient.

On Netflix, we've just finished Hellbound which was fascinating and creative.  Also out of S. Korea, I've got two eps left of "Crash Landing On You" which is very sweet while also being thrilling.  I'm about to start the last five episodes, just released on Netflix, of Money Heist, a, well, heist story out of Spain.  Wild and wonderful, and you find yourself rooting for the criminals.

My TV taste is changing in that I will no longer watch crime dramas/police procedurals that feature serial psycho killers of young women whose bodies always end up being found in some disrobed state.  I don't find targeted violence against young women to be entertaining.

I'd like to subscribe to BritBox, but I don't want to spend yet more money on another streaming service.  I don't enjoy spending too much time on my couch!  There is so much fascinating shows from all over the world to entertain and teach us.

[kristina]

My favourite all time cheer-up British Comedy is : Only Fools and Horses and here is a compilation of :

BEST MOMENTS EVER: 40th Anniversary Compilation | Only Fools and Horses | BBC Comedy Greats

...  and as one fan of Only Fools and Horses - fans wrote :

One of the hallmarks of great comedy is being able to watch it time and time again, know exactly when the punchlines are coming, yet still laugh at them!  A wonderful show - great casting, well acted and superbly written.  A few quick examples - coffee and gravy, the Shadow, Trigger's broom, "rhinoceros", the auction scene, Arnie in the ambulance.  I could go on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcz0JKjtmvI

[MooseMom]

Only Fools and Horses, along with One Foot in the Grave, are examples of absolutely brilliant telly.  I miss those shows.

[SooMK]

I am going to have to check out this Only Fools and Horses.

We just finished Season Four of Jack Irish. It got so dark and sad but I liked it very much.

I'm with you MM on the violence to women. I don't know if it has always bothered me so much, but it definitely does now.

I am more likely to bail on shows than I used to be because there is so much choice. Sometimes you need to watch several episodes to give it a fair shot.

Thanks for the recommendations.

[kristina]

The introduction to this wonderful true Ron Clark Story reads as follows:

1998. Ron Clark, still relatively early in his career, leaves his stable life teaching at an elementary school in his suburban North Carolina hometown, the school where he is appreciated by both his fellow teachers and his students for his innovative teaching methods which results in raising test scores. Instead, he decides to look for a teaching job at a tough New York inner city school where he feels he can be more useful. He eventually finds a job at Inner Harlem Elementary School, where the students are segregated according to their potential. As Clark is white and "nice" looking, Principal Turner wants to assign him to the honors class, especially as Turner's job security depends on good test scores. Clark, however, wants to take the most disadvantaged class. He quickly learns that it will be a battle of wills between himself and his disruptive students to see who can outlast the other. But he also learns that he has to understand them, both individually and collectively ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR05_ngoltM

[okarol]

Hi Okarol! So nice to see your familiar name here.

I could not stick with "Only Murders in the Building" except I did love watching Selena Gomez (CKD warrior) interacting with the old dudes.

I agree about "Handmaids Tale". I watched the first season but I'm finally acknowledging that highly tense entertainment doesn't work for me.

I recently subscribed to Acorn TV (Turns out I meant to subscribe to Britbox so I could watch the series based on the Cormoran Strike books. Oh well, maybe next year). On Acorn TV, we've been watching the Australian series "Jack Irish" and enjoying it very much. We had previously watched "Mystery Road" (I think on Amazon Prime), a movie which was great and the lead actor has a part in "Jack Irish". It turns out there are only maybe 10 actors in all of Australia or all of the UK and it's fun watching them in all their roles.

Anyone else find their TV taste is changing? I stumbled about the Turner Classic Movie channels (who knew we had them?) and it made me think of the old days of live TV when you'd turn on the TV and find yourself in the middle of a movie and it was all good.

Nice to see you too!

TCM is a favorite standby when I want to see something good.

I don't have Acorn TV or Britbox.

My husband is watching "Under the Banner of Heaven" on Hulu, says it's good but I haven't started it.

I am watching "Barry" on HBO MAX and plan to check out "Hacks" too.

A friend said "The Americans" is good, so may save that for later.

My favorite ongoing series so far have been "Better Call Saul", "Peaky Blinders" and "Ozark" and I look forward to seeing more.

[MooseMom]

I love Peaky Blinders, okarol, and am looking forward to seeing the final season once it gets to Netflix here in the US in a few weeks' time.

I've just finished The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.  Also watching Yellowstone, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and The First Lady.  I have several eps of Call The Midwife on DVR I haven't seen yet.

I recently finished a Korean rom-com called Crashing into You on Netflix that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Also finished The Last Kingdom, also on Netflix.

I had watched all of Borgen when it was on some years ago and am thrilled that it is back!  I'll watch the first ep tomorrow!  Can't wait!

I suppose this is the pandemic's silver lining.  More time to read and watch cool shows from all over the world.

[okarol]

I love Peaky Blinders, okarol, and am looking forward to seeing the final season once it gets to Netflix here in the US in a few weeks' time.

I've just finished The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.  Also watching Yellowstone, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and The First Lady.  I have several eps of Call The Midwife on DVR I haven't seen yet.

I recently finished a Korean rom-com called Crashing into You on Netflix that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Also finished The Last Kingdom, also on Netflix.

I had watched all of Borgen when it was on some years ago and am thrilled that it is back!  I'll watch the first ep tomorrow!  Can't wait!

I suppose this is the pandemic's silver lining.  More time to read and watch cool shows from all over the world.

Hi MM! 

Oh yes, watched some of Mrs. Maisel, I need to get back to her!

Not familiar with Last Kingdom or Crashing Into You or Borgen, but thanks, I need new things to explore!

[kristina]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_XDeZvyDIs

"Miracle of the White Stallions", Arthur Hiller, 1963 - YouTube

Wonderful movie and reliably true to facts ...

In 1945 the fate of Vienna's famous Lipizzaner stallions hangs into balance. American
General George Smith Patton Jr. could save them but first he asks to see them perform.

Miracle of the White Stallions is a 1963 American adventure film released by Walt Disney starring Robert Taylor (playing Alois Podhajsky), Lilli Palmer, and Eddie Albert. It is the story of the evacuation of the Lipizzaner horses from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna during WWII. Major parts of the movie were shot at the Hermesvilla palace in the Lainzer Tiergarten of Vienna, a former hunting area for the Habsburg nobility. The music for the soundtrack was based on the first movement of Franz Schubert's Marche Militaire no 1, D733.

General George Smith Patton Jr. (11th November 1885 - 21 December 1945 ) was the General in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of WWII, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. General George Smith Patton Jr. came from a wealthy and distinguished family, riding since childhood. Commissioned into the Cavalry, he represented the United States in the 1912 Olympics in the Modern pentathlon; one of its five events includes Show jumping. He designed the M1913 Cavalry saber (famed as the Patton saber), and went on to become the Cavalry's top instructor, then the Army's first Master of the Sword. Always a devoted rider, even during wartime, he was known until his death for wearing riding breeches and high boots as his distinct personal uniform. He was extremely fair, true to his word and a great man ...

[kristina]

Johannes Vermeer also known as Jan Vermeer (October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful "provincial" genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. Nonetheless, he produced relatively few paintings and evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death... but ... as a painter he was absolute ... not only in his commitment and vision plus his unsurpassed techniques, but also in describing the inner soul not only of people but still-life-moments he so wonderfully brought to us through his very special way of observing and painting ...

Vermeer: Master of Light (COMPLETE Documentary) [No Ads] - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEior-0inxU

[Simon Dog]

Big news when a Vermeer got boosted from a Boston museum:

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/10966

[okarol]

I am bouncing around different series and not completing any!
Watching Handmaid's Tale, Succession, Dahlmer, House of the Dragon, Schitt's Creek and Barry.
Just started Rick Steve's Art of Europe. https://www.ricksteves.com/tv-programmers/art-of-europe