What I have been watching
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scripsiHusband and I have been binge-watching all three seasons of The Doctor Blake Mysteries, an Australian series featuring Craig McLachlan. Apparently he’s an old soap opera star, but I’ve never seen him anything before.
It takes place in a small town in the late 1950’s. Lucien Blake returns home after being away for 30 years to take over his father’s practice as well as his job a police surgeon. He has had a rather colourful career, spent time on a POW camp during the war and, possibly, been a spy. His wife and daughter disappeared in Singapore during the war and now, in his fifties, he is rather haunted by his experiences and has a definite problem with alcohol. He is also rather unconventional, which makes things a bit complicated in his relationship with the police he works with.
He settles down in his father’s house, inheriting his father’s housekeeper, Jean. She’s a widow in Lucien’s own age, rather proper and seemingly disapproving, but she’s also smart and unexpectedly humorous and often plays Watson to Lucien’s Sherlock. He also has two lodgers, a young nurse called Mattie and Jean’s police officer nephew.
It’s not grand TV, but entertaining. I like the sets and the costumes- people look like they really live in their clothes, they don’t look like costumes at all. Jean, for example, has a rather hideous pink dressing gown that doesn’t match her nightgown. And I like the characters who feels like real persons with both good and bad sides. I also like that the token sexual tension isn’t between Lucien and the young and pretty Mattie, but between him and Jean.
I watched the first episode of Lucifer and is a bot of two minds about it. I’ve read Sandman but never the spin-off comic, so I can’t judge how close they are to the source. I enjoyed Lucifer (Tom Ellis) himself, he was fun and snarky. A reviewer commented that Ellis would make a good Doctor and I can certainly see that. But I’m starting to grow a bit bored with the concept “person who has some extraordinary characteristics” help the police. We have had immortals, computer chips, various mental disorders, tattoos and drugs. And now we have Lucifer helping out. I’ll give it another chance and see if it gets better.
I’m still enjoying Blacklist, thought Red seem to becoming a bit more unhinged as the season progress. They’we also highlighted his less than nice sides in the last episodes, whereas Tom seems to have been promoted to Good Guy. I wonder if the show will lure us only to kick it all around, or not.
I’ve also watched the first episode of The Librarians, which I liked. I mean- who can I not like action librarians? But then I realised it’s a spin-off and now I’m in a dither is I should watch The Librarian first, or not.
It takes place in a small town in the late 1950’s. Lucien Blake returns home after being away for 30 years to take over his father’s practice as well as his job a police surgeon. He has had a rather colourful career, spent time on a POW camp during the war and, possibly, been a spy. His wife and daughter disappeared in Singapore during the war and now, in his fifties, he is rather haunted by his experiences and has a definite problem with alcohol. He is also rather unconventional, which makes things a bit complicated in his relationship with the police he works with.
He settles down in his father’s house, inheriting his father’s housekeeper, Jean. She’s a widow in Lucien’s own age, rather proper and seemingly disapproving, but she’s also smart and unexpectedly humorous and often plays Watson to Lucien’s Sherlock. He also has two lodgers, a young nurse called Mattie and Jean’s police officer nephew.
It’s not grand TV, but entertaining. I like the sets and the costumes- people look like they really live in their clothes, they don’t look like costumes at all. Jean, for example, has a rather hideous pink dressing gown that doesn’t match her nightgown. And I like the characters who feels like real persons with both good and bad sides. I also like that the token sexual tension isn’t between Lucien and the young and pretty Mattie, but between him and Jean.
I watched the first episode of Lucifer and is a bot of two minds about it. I’ve read Sandman but never the spin-off comic, so I can’t judge how close they are to the source. I enjoyed Lucifer (Tom Ellis) himself, he was fun and snarky. A reviewer commented that Ellis would make a good Doctor and I can certainly see that. But I’m starting to grow a bit bored with the concept “person who has some extraordinary characteristics” help the police. We have had immortals, computer chips, various mental disorders, tattoos and drugs. And now we have Lucifer helping out. I’ll give it another chance and see if it gets better.
I’m still enjoying Blacklist, thought Red seem to becoming a bit more unhinged as the season progress. They’we also highlighted his less than nice sides in the last episodes, whereas Tom seems to have been promoted to Good Guy. I wonder if the show will lure us only to kick it all around, or not.
I’ve also watched the first episode of The Librarians, which I liked. I mean- who can I not like action librarians? But then I realised it’s a spin-off and now I’m in a dither is I should watch The Librarian first, or not.
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Date: 2016-02-02 07:30 pm (UTC)The movies are different in tone than the show. There's more racism, for one things. They're not terrible, but they're not spectacularly good, either. They're all three kind of Indiana Jones-ish. Basically, they're worthwhile if you're a completist or if you really like Flynn. We watched them after seeing the first season and didn't feel that we'd missed anything by not seeing them first.
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Date: 2016-02-02 09:00 pm (UTC)