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The penultimate best Sunday night of tv ever !
While the rest of the country was laughing up over at the SNL 40 chuckle fest, I was going down a rabbit hole of sadness. Really, really good sadness but never the less. It was just an icy cold night and Neil was still in Connecticut - so it was just me and Koda under my big ole life giving down comforter. First up :
60 Minutes
The only actual sadness of the night with the tragic tragic bizarre traffic death this week of long time CBS correspondent BOB SIMON. The man lived through every war of the last 50 years, was taken prisoner in Iraq or somewhere and dies in a town car accident on the West Side Highway ?? Just an all around shock. 60 Min showed the piece that he had in queue, about a cure for ebola of all things, with a full send off next week.
Now to the more faux sadness- but was a full on box of tissue night
GREAT BRITISH BAKE-OFF
Dashing young , seventeen years old , Martha had to leave the tent this week, with not a dry eye in the house. She seemed like such a nice young lady, but advanced dough did her in.
DOWNTON ABBEY
Blah, blah, Edith and that damned baby, Mary and her ex who was lousy in bed, on and on - AND ISIS the Dog is very ill and I am sure will be in doggie heaven come next Sunday. Everyone EVERYONE connected with the show is calling out the rampant internet rumors that the poor dog had to go, what with the name ISIS in every other headline around the world. Named for the 5th Lord Carnarvon's financing of the expedition that freaking found KING TUT of all things - it is just homage to the House itself.
All that said, I did like this episode, not as much as last week, but the story is zipping on, with out being weighted down to much by the Batees. Was in unrealistic for Edith to bring the baby back to Downton and not go to America ? Not quite as unrealistic as Daisy the scullery maid giving a primer on early 20th century leftist politics - " sometimes you just have to let art flow" ( and look at the pretty cloths)
HBO'S LOOKING
Pretty much a snooze fest of a show with not enough Russel Tovery or Scott Bakula, BUT it did have this fantastic cover song over the final credits.
last but so so not least
GRANTCHESTER
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Damn British TV shows and you only doing the slightest of handfuls of episodes ! Just as I fall completely in love with this show BOOM! It is over, this coming Sunday is the last one. This one was a doozie of a good one, with our small town Vicar getting in loads and loads of trouble in the big city. Like all of Masterpiece Mysteries , you don't really want to hang to close to the heroes - folks just drop like flies.
So one more week of Sunday night tv perfection, the other shows will go on and we have things to look forward to this Spring, but here , for one brief shinning moment a few weeks of brightness into our bleak midwinter....
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