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I watched a couple of brilliant documentaries last night.
One was about Henry Kaiser. If ever there was a good example of never taking "no" for an answer it would be Henry Kaiser. Very clever & tenacious man who, when anyone in the military refused his ideas, he went to see his friend the President, when told his new shipyards would take months to build he got them done in weeks and when offering to build smaller aircraft carriers and freighters for the war effort he was virtually laughed at until his ships were floating off the production lines in vast numbers. Certainly not an all mouth and no trousers kind of guy. Henry Kaiser was a real "can do" type of person that is so sadly missing in industry thesedays.
The other documentary was a 3 parter shown back to back about what goes on behind the scenes at Windsor Castle. It was filmed in 2005 so outdated now but still a fascinating look at life in the castle with the Queen, Prince Philip and all the family, staff and their every day routines. A wonderful interview with Prince Philip as he drove around the estate giving the history of all the buildings, the farms, the deer park.....and just wandering around in the farm shop amongst the public without anyone asking for selfies etc and no bodyguards, he was just another shop visitor, chatting to customers and staff quite naturally and without pretense. A really lovely look at life behind closed doors that the Queen and the family all took part in very casual, very relaxed....lots of off the cuff moments. Brilliant.
One was about Henry Kaiser. If ever there was a good example of never taking "no" for an answer it would be Henry Kaiser. Very clever & tenacious man who, when anyone in the military refused his ideas, he went to see his friend the President, when told his new shipyards would take months to build he got them done in weeks and when offering to build smaller aircraft carriers and freighters for the war effort he was virtually laughed at until his ships were floating off the production lines in vast numbers. Certainly not an all mouth and no trousers kind of guy. Henry Kaiser was a real "can do" type of person that is so sadly missing in industry thesedays.
The other documentary was a 3 parter shown back to back about what goes on behind the scenes at Windsor Castle. It was filmed in 2005 so outdated now but still a fascinating look at life in the castle with the Queen, Prince Philip and all the family, staff and their every day routines. A wonderful interview with Prince Philip as he drove around the estate giving the history of all the buildings, the farms, the deer park.....and just wandering around in the farm shop amongst the public without anyone asking for selfies etc and no bodyguards, he was just another shop visitor, chatting to customers and staff quite naturally and without pretense. A really lovely look at life behind closed doors that the Queen and the family all took part in very casual, very relaxed....lots of off the cuff moments. Brilliant.
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I just watched the movie Frequency last night. It was really good. It was a kind of time travel movie, but it was the first one (Besides back to the future) that I semi-understood. The plot was very well orchestrated. It's about this son who can talk to his dead father (Not a seance) through this machine that is like a phone, but much bigger. And he realizes it's him and it's the day before his dad dies. And it turns into a murder mystery. The story unfolds...
Caught a programme last night....had not planned to watch it.
9/11 : The Heartland Tapes on Smithsonian Channel.
Basically the documentary was a whole variety of snippets taken from US local TV and radio stations right across the country with tiny sections of the original air traffic control conversations with the pilots and latterly the hijackers of the aircraft involved.
The day starts at 6am on the east coast with the usual banter, weather, news that anyone would find on their local radio or TV station. Every so often the time flashes up onscreen and then you get a first indication of something being wrong but at that point the radio & TV stations are unaware.
After the initial crash the east coast radio & TV are getting reports of a plane crash somewhere in New York but no details of what or where has crashed. As more details filter into the media you have radio listeners phoning the radio stations on their normal shows asking what is going on. Then you have the presenters talking to their producers and by this time they have their TV's on one event.....
The country being so big, only the eastern area sees it unfold live. The TV and radio presenters are trying to stay calm for their listeners and watchers. They question what is going on, disbelieving what they are watching and hearing...dismissing it as a movie....cannot be real.
By the time of the 4th crash the rest of the country is starting to wake up or heading towards dawn. They are seeing and hearing recorded coverage and the sense of disbelief, shock, horror, anger, grief....by the time the entire country is awake and watching or listening to the news reports the presenters in the local TV and radio stations are really struggling...their eyes see and their ears hear what their brain cannot reconcile or believe...they are trying to present their programme as normally and calmly as they can whilst it was obvious by their voice that they couldn't equate what was happening, had happened was real.
The documentary was totally without a voice over narration, you heard and saw images from all those local radio and TV stations taken in real time as the tragedy happened and as the reports filtered through to the rest of the country....along with the ATC tapes injected along the way too.
The editors did a brilliant job of patching all these different people into one hour long film. A completely unique insight into the events in real time and as recorded news narratives. The local stations became a point of contact for so many people all trying to make sense of what had happened and the staff of those local stations had to try and stay calm whilst trying to make sense of it all and be there for their watchers and listeners without cracking.
A very interesting point of view collective from that day, very palpable changes of tempo...very human responses to something very few could truly perceive as real even though they felt compelled to watch or listen to it.
9/11 : The Heartland Tapes on Smithsonian Channel.
Basically the documentary was a whole variety of snippets taken from US local TV and radio stations right across the country with tiny sections of the original air traffic control conversations with the pilots and latterly the hijackers of the aircraft involved.
The day starts at 6am on the east coast with the usual banter, weather, news that anyone would find on their local radio or TV station. Every so often the time flashes up onscreen and then you get a first indication of something being wrong but at that point the radio & TV stations are unaware.
After the initial crash the east coast radio & TV are getting reports of a plane crash somewhere in New York but no details of what or where has crashed. As more details filter into the media you have radio listeners phoning the radio stations on their normal shows asking what is going on. Then you have the presenters talking to their producers and by this time they have their TV's on one event.....
The country being so big, only the eastern area sees it unfold live. The TV and radio presenters are trying to stay calm for their listeners and watchers. They question what is going on, disbelieving what they are watching and hearing...dismissing it as a movie....cannot be real.
By the time of the 4th crash the rest of the country is starting to wake up or heading towards dawn. They are seeing and hearing recorded coverage and the sense of disbelief, shock, horror, anger, grief....by the time the entire country is awake and watching or listening to the news reports the presenters in the local TV and radio stations are really struggling...their eyes see and their ears hear what their brain cannot reconcile or believe...they are trying to present their programme as normally and calmly as they can whilst it was obvious by their voice that they couldn't equate what was happening, had happened was real.
The documentary was totally without a voice over narration, you heard and saw images from all those local radio and TV stations taken in real time as the tragedy happened and as the reports filtered through to the rest of the country....along with the ATC tapes injected along the way too.
The editors did a brilliant job of patching all these different people into one hour long film. A completely unique insight into the events in real time and as recorded news narratives. The local stations became a point of contact for so many people all trying to make sense of what had happened and the staff of those local stations had to try and stay calm whilst trying to make sense of it all and be there for their watchers and listeners without cracking.
A very interesting point of view collective from that day, very palpable changes of tempo...very human responses to something very few could truly perceive as real even though they felt compelled to watch or listen to it.
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It's on STARS, which I get through Amazon Prime.
Oh yeah. First couple of episodes are a bit of cheese. About halfway through season 1 it gets good, and then it graduates to great in season 2.
It also helps if you've read Treasure Island, as this is the story of how that gold ended up buried on the Island and how Billy Bones ends up with the map.
I don't ever watch horror, zombies, vampires, etc. But for some reason, and covid-boredom, I started watching "Fear the Walking Dead". Still a little gory for me, but milder than most from what I understand. My wife started watching at S2, so now I can't watch without her, so it's our 'go to' evening show now
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I have watched Walking Dead since the beginning. I didn't have high expectations for FtWD, but the first two seasons were better than I expected.
However....
Spoilers: They both get dumb as dirt, and end up shambling shells of their former selves. Both shows should have ended about five years ago.
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Just watched Lupin on Netflix, if you don’t speak French it’s subtitled but that doesn’t bother me at all when it’s such a good show. Very well done heist/mystery series.
Mare of Easttown was dark and hard hitting, the usual amazing acting from Kate Winslet. It starts off slow but once it gets going it chugs….superficially it’s a murder mystery but the subtext deals with family relations and grief/acceptance.
HupGuppHup I like the British detective dramas too, the Fall, Broadchurch, etc. just watched Five Days about a month ago. A little known HBO miniseries from about 15 years ago. It’s a bit dated looking but a very well done detective show.
Mare of Easttown was dark and hard hitting, the usual amazing acting from Kate Winslet. It starts off slow but once it gets going it chugs….superficially it’s a murder mystery but the subtext deals with family relations and grief/acceptance.
HupGuppHup I like the British detective dramas too, the Fall, Broadchurch, etc. just watched Five Days about a month ago. A little known HBO miniseries from about 15 years ago. It’s a bit dated looking but a very well done detective show.
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Fear Street Part One: 1994 on Netflix, it was awesome I thought. Part Two is coming soon, and has Sadie Sink as a main character, who is best known for portraying Maxine "Max" Mayfield in Netflix's Stranger Things (I'm super into Stranger Things as well).
Seriously love Dexter, did you know they are doing a revival of the show, possibly to air this fall 2021? I'm so excited, can't wait.
Seriously love Dexter, did you know they are doing a revival of the show, possibly to air this fall 2021? I'm so excited, can't wait.
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I cried last night. Watched a documentary in the Storyville series, Raising a School Shooter.
Three parents...two single dads and a mum. Normal families that were torn apart by school shootings carried out by their own children.
Sue Klebold really got to me. She is such a strong woman but she is still carrying the guilt of her son Dylan, still struggling to understand what and why he and his friend Eric were thinking....she struggles to figure out if she should have noticed that her son was planning what he and Eric did. Initially she though that her son and his friend acted in a moment of madness only to find out from law enforcement that they had planned it for months and that in his journals he spoke of hating himself and wishing himself dead....yet whenever she asked how he was doing, "I'm fine, mum, everything is good". She feels terrible guilt that she just took his words as being true, every day she asks herself why she didn't push for more from him. But as she rightly said, he was the average 17 year old moody teenaged boy, often spending hours in his room chatting to his buddy Eric. She never moved home, she is still in the same town...her husband divorced her and moved away with their other son, they never speak or see each other. At Dylan's funeral she had moments alone with him in his "cardboard box" casket, pleading with him to help her understand why he did what he did....and not finding answers. She slowly returned to the community with the help of neighbours and friends who stood by her when the media and law enforcement and families of victims closed in on her, some of the victims and their families are now firm friends but they can never forget...they have forgiven, but not forgotten. Sue just lives out her days questioning her ability as a parent, why she didn't spot signs of trouble and why Dylan went to Columbine High School that day with his buddy and did what they did.
The other two parents still have their sons.....Jeff Williams' son Andy is serving a 50 years to life sentence, reduced to 25 years to life on appeal and is due for parole in 2025, for killing two classmates after years of bullying that had gone unpunished. Jeff speaks to his son every week by phone, rarely gets to see him and still cannot get the true reasons why his boy did what he did. Initially those around him in the community blamed him for Andy's behaviour, when he went shopping people spat and swore at him and he accepted it, he still does cos he feels that he failed as a parent and that Andy's behaviour was his fault, his responsibility.
The third parent was Clarence Elliot, his son Nicholas killed his teacher and was sentenced to 114 years. As with Jeff, Clarence speaks to his son by phone each week. Nicholas cannot explain why he did what he did, his dad also struggles with guilt that maybe he should have been a better father, maybe listened more. Nicholas has had parole refused 6 times and he is now reconciled with spending the rest of his life in jail. His now elderly dad, accepts that he will not see his son again in his lifetime, not hold him or spend time going fishing and other stuff that fathers and sons do. Clarence still looks for answers as to why he did what he did and still blames himself.
Very few people think of the parents of those who carry out the crimes. It was refreshing and heartbreaking to hear their words, to see and hear their perspective of what happened the day their child went to school as normal one day and did unimaginable things. The programme highlighted that as much as there needs to be support for the victims and their families, there is very little support for the parents and siblings of the one who did the crime. Sue Klebold, Jeff Williams and Clarence Elliot didn't experience any support, they didn't have anyone from law enforcement stop by and check that they were OK....I think Sue spoke for the majority of parents who's child has killed others.....
"In this country (US) when a family suffers the tragedy of losing a child, friends and neighbours cook and bake for them......but who is willing, who wants to cook or bake for the mother and/or father of a child who has killed?"
I cried last night. Watched a documentary in the Storyville series, Raising a School Shooter.
Three parents...two single dads and a mum. Normal families that were torn apart by school shootings carried out by their own children.
Sue Klebold really got to me. She is such a strong woman but she is still carrying the guilt of her son Dylan, still struggling to understand what and why he and his friend Eric were thinking....she struggles to figure out if she should have noticed that her son was planning what he and Eric did. Initially she though that her son and his friend acted in a moment of madness only to find out from law enforcement that they had planned it for months and that in his journals he spoke of hating himself and wishing himself dead....yet whenever she asked how he was doing, "I'm fine, mum, everything is good". She feels terrible guilt that she just took his words as being true, every day she asks herself why she didn't push for more from him. But as she rightly said, he was the average 17 year old moody teenaged boy, often spending hours in his room chatting to his buddy Eric. She never moved home, she is still in the same town...her husband divorced her and moved away with their other son, they never speak or see each other. At Dylan's funeral she had moments alone with him in his "cardboard box" casket, pleading with him to help her understand why he did what he did....and not finding answers. She slowly returned to the community with the help of neighbours and friends who stood by her when the media and law enforcement and families of victims closed in on her, some of the victims and their families are now firm friends but they can never forget...they have forgiven, but not forgotten. Sue just lives out her days questioning her ability as a parent, why she didn't spot signs of trouble and why Dylan went to Columbine High School that day with his buddy and did what they did.
The other two parents still have their sons.....Jeff Williams' son Andy is serving a 50 years to life sentence, reduced to 25 years to life on appeal and is due for parole in 2025, for killing two classmates after years of bullying that had gone unpunished. Jeff speaks to his son every week by phone, rarely gets to see him and still cannot get the true reasons why his boy did what he did. Initially those around him in the community blamed him for Andy's behaviour, when he went shopping people spat and swore at him and he accepted it, he still does cos he feels that he failed as a parent and that Andy's behaviour was his fault, his responsibility.
The third parent was Clarence Elliot, his son Nicholas killed his teacher and was sentenced to 114 years. As with Jeff, Clarence speaks to his son by phone each week. Nicholas cannot explain why he did what he did, his dad also struggles with guilt that maybe he should have been a better father, maybe listened more. Nicholas has had parole refused 6 times and he is now reconciled with spending the rest of his life in jail. His now elderly dad, accepts that he will not see his son again in his lifetime, not hold him or spend time going fishing and other stuff that fathers and sons do. Clarence still looks for answers as to why he did what he did and still blames himself.
Very few people think of the parents of those who carry out the crimes. It was refreshing and heartbreaking to hear their words, to see and hear their perspective of what happened the day their child went to school as normal one day and did unimaginable things. The programme highlighted that as much as there needs to be support for the victims and their families, there is very little support for the parents and siblings of the one who did the crime. Sue Klebold, Jeff Williams and Clarence Elliot didn't experience any support, they didn't have anyone from law enforcement stop by and check that they were OK....I think Sue spoke for the majority of parents who's child has killed others.....
"In this country (US) when a family suffers the tragedy of losing a child, friends and neighbours cook and bake for them......but who is willing, who wants to cook or bake for the mother and/or father of a child who has killed?"
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Tbh I am not into TV reality series type stuff, never have been.....apart from my one guilty pleasure, I watch an hour of one of the many "Real Housewives of" series (currently Dallas).
Now this may seem quite weird but I watch it to prove to myself that I am not the total so'n'so that my ex hubby accused be of being....I am far more passive aggressive and speak as I find without giving a stuff what anyone thinks than most of the so-called "real" housewives
But no...I am really not into reality TV/voyeuristic TV...I like Clarkson (and Hammond & May) but they are brilliant as a team in TG and TGT...plus I do not have Amazon Prime, so cannot watch his farming series til it is released on DVD, then I might get it.
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I have consistently been watching psych for years now. Such a hilarious show, but I just remembered how deep it is, I just watched the last episode again, and lassie throwing away the disk, well let's just say, there were tears. I think my favorite relationship in the the whole show, wouldn't be the romantic one between Shawn and Jules, not the friendship between Shawn and Gus, not even the relationship between Henry and Shawn, but Lassie's with Jules. WIth how much Lassie loves jules, while being completely plutonic, is just so amazing, and how he threatens Shawn that one episode, that if he hurts Jules in anyway, he will "Discharge his pistol."
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Been binging WWII shows. Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, etc... I just tried to watch the TV version of Fury, and it was unwatchable due to to the editing, so I bought the BlueRay at a used book store. That is a great, great film. It gives you the sense of being in a Sherman tank the same way Das Boot gave you the sense of being in a submarine.
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Steven Spielberg, whether as a producer (Band of Brothers) or director (Saving Private Ryan), always ensures that any film or TV series that reflects actual truth, literally does exactly that. He and Tom Hanks worked together behind the cameras on both Ryan and Brothers, both have frequently stated that their work would follow the story exactly and without the use of theatrical licence.
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Currently trying to work my way through handmaids tale season 4, but finding it slow going so far.
Recently watched a three part drama called Time on BBC (not sure if you guys over the pond can get all content?). Starred stephen graham (boardwalk empire) and sean bean (GoT, LOTR) - absolutely brilliant and a brutal but apparently realistic portrayal of life in prison. I found myself repeatedly thinking “i never, ever, ever want to go to prison”!
Recently watched a three part drama called Time on BBC (not sure if you guys over the pond can get all content?). Starred stephen graham (boardwalk empire) and sean bean (GoT, LOTR) - absolutely brilliant and a brutal but apparently realistic portrayal of life in prison. I found myself repeatedly thinking “i never, ever, ever want to go to prison”!
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