DOMINGO GIGANTE

TELEVISION

Only week #2 of the Sunday night television overload, after last weeks explosion back into our lives after an outstanding run in deep Winter. This Springtime attempt is coming on gangbusters.The unquestioned winners this week were :

SISTER MONICA JOAN and DROGON, the Dragon

CALL THE MIDWIFE

  There have been a lot of comings and goings this season - not really sure why we had to ship off Chummy and the baby, leaving the husband and replacing Sister Evangelina, with both given exit stories and reasons to come back.. guess we will find out. There was a real chance of this one going a little into left field with its original protagonist , just like in the books, going off to have a life - but the stories are keeping up the A++ standard of the first seasons.

Last week we were stuck with the Alan Turning fever that swept the UK ,I am guessing about a year ago. EVERYONE had to do a sad gay story, Downton did it, Grantchester did and last week it was Call the Midwifes turn. ALL with very 2015 attitudes about the gays, but we take what we can get.

This week we moved on to Hookers and Equality of the Sexes - but I still teared up in the end. This show can just do it to me, I don't think there has been a single on that a tear has not rolled down my cheek. Befuddled Sister Monica Joan saving the day in the end - and Battenburg Cake, I do love this show.

GAME OF THRONES

GoT Season 5 debuted last week with a flash of an hour - catching us up on everything that happened since all the murders at Kings Landing, keeping up the pace this week. This is one show that is going to have to be carefully ran - the scope is getting so large as more and more people and stories come into its tv universe. I guess that was a real problem with this book as well - at least from what all I have read, I have not read the books. You can see in your mind all these arcs coming together in the end, lets just hope the writers et all can keep it together until that happens, years from now. It did seem to be a little less gory tonight, and with less T&A. I'm not really doing recaps here, they are all over the webs for all these show, Just my opinion of tonight. The show wants so to dig into whys of characters, but has to by the nature of the beast to move so fast that it just gets lost...

Dany was having a bad day, and just like when Koda's happy face and waggle tail cheers me up ,her missing dragon DROGON popped up at just the right time to drop a whale at her feet or something - I was bad and read ahead online, so I know that tonight was a whole lot of foreshadowing , at least with the dragon. 

Part of what I really liked about this show was when really really bad things happened to really really bad people , but as time goes on the line between good and evil , good and bad is becoming much less clear.

WOLF HALL

Sigh.

We are going to stick this one out - it is good television - but it is hard to watch. Maybe its just an American thing - but a show where you have to check wiki every few minutes is maybe doing something wrong. It is a beautiful show , the costumes are some of the best you have ever seen , but it does go into the deep deep tracks of pre Elizabethan England, and Henry's split from Rome. 

This is an ANNE BOLEYN that we have never seen on tv before. She always seem to be seen in hindsight from her daughter, the innocent fem fatal and not this wickedly smart , conniving woman. Neil and I are both having a hard time keeping up with who is who  - and yes the ever present lute music did nod me off for a tiny bit tonight ( again )

Maybe I need to just re watch them all before next week. ( and I bet the Broadway folks are not super super happy with this production - it is not making me want to sit through six hours / two plays of the same story  for sure )

MAD MEN

ONLY ______ EPISODES LEFT UNTIL THE FINALE! They keep shouting at is in full AMC blare. If the last ones are like tonight - it can't come fast enough. At one point I called in " Mad Men does an AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL " it was just so ham fisted in its " we are running out of time, learn this now ! "

And with so few hours left, we have to spend ANY precious time on creepy GLEN BISHOP from 196 - who gives a crap ? Really? The person/actor is MM creators son in real life - so you know he had to have a swan song. But it just seemed wasted. I get where they are going with Sally - she and maybe only she can see through her parents - and yes, it would suck to have all your pas hit on your mom and dad, that we can all agree on. But just like the the British sad gay theme - Mad Men seems to be going at this problem with a 2015 world view. Even at Miss Porters Sally has learned that life is easier for the pretty- I guarantee that . 

Also, totally out of the blue a white knight swooping in to save Joan from a life of success and big money, all the while Don getting all 70's estie cosmic themed totally sticking with the " Is that all there is theme from .. last week .  Yeah, yeah , yeah, you are happy today, but then what ? Which is not something that people do, they just like being happy with out turning over ever rock looking for gross creepy crawly things.

As close as the show has every come to putting Fonzie on skis. This show can be as good as it gets these days - they just have to remember that, I guess. I fully believe they will pull it out in the end.

BONUS: VEEP! 

Which I have not watched an of yet, but will be doing soon!