Tuesday, April 28, 2015

SUNDAY NIGHT TV - better late than never

Caught up in all sorts of things - just getting around to this. 



CALL THE MIDWIFE

Still batting 1000 for getting that tear to roll down my cheek - yeah, the neighborhood showed up for Dr. Turner with what ever they had - BOOM! Religion everywhere with the arrival of the Christian Scientists to Poplar. I do hope we have not see the last of CUTE Priest guy.


GAME OF THRONES

Third show of this season - out of what? 10 - I really don't know, 12? What ever, it was another " setting the scene show " nothing major happening - really until the last scene, which again was a set up for what is to come. Keeping with the theme all of Kings Landing was dealing with fanatical religion - They must have called the midwives. There is really no way the pace can't pick up this coming week.

WOLF HALL

Broke my streak on this one and stayed awake the entire hour - still having the same trouble of exactly which family is who - relationships, but this week was the best so far. Man, that Anne Boylen was a real bitch - I'd have chopped off her head to.

Just like the TONY nominated stage production - the costumes here are just the best maybe ever on tv. Bright and sunny week ahead of me so there really won't be any time go re watch all of these, but I am going to.

Came across a really good FOUR HOUR ( makes me very happy ) BBC Documentary on " the real " Henry Vlll



MAD MEN

Moving right along - this one made me all nostalgic! Fast paced and with Trudy Campbell - this was the best of the short season yet. Only three left, or as they keep saying two before the final. No real idea how they are going to pull this off - but man, I hope it is satisfying . Good-bye at last to Sterling Cooper. It is 1970 - just as the death of Henry VIII marked the end of one world and the arrival of our modern one - the age of small companies is over- bigger and better is the only way now. CORPORATE AMERICA has arrived.
How , or can Don fit in as a cog in a big ass machine - even with COCA COLA. But you know what this means - Don Draper is in charge of Coca Cola in 1971. He gave us THIS :



Peggy deals with the coming age of machines with some pangs of what if - hopefully HOPEFULLY getting closer to Stan. Joan's white knight still around . I do hope we get more of Betty before we say good bye forever, but the show really is better when it is all inter office politics and goings on.

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