On Five Television Shows Making a Post

[danieldwilliam]

I am currently watching the following television programmes

Battlestar Gallatica

I have vague memories of remembering watching the programme when I was a child and being interested in the idea that both Starbuck and Face were the same person.

So I've started watching the  series from the 2000's. Which so far I'm enjoying but there is a lot of mention of God in it. Mostly in the debates between the Cylon agent who was running Baltar and who may currently be either a figment of his imagination running as part of his internal dialogue or some sort of brain parasite.

Anyhow, I'll see how that goes.

A Stitch In Time

Historically tailoring and image management hosted by Amber Butchart.

Butchart is taking an outfit from a famous painting each week and having her teams of tailors recreate it along with some exploration of the deeper supply chain and poking around in what the clothes meant to the peopel wearing them. It's very interesting and she's having a nice time which is nice to watch.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agengy Series Two

Douglas Adam's detective is on the run in the USA with his assistant and a former client. It is charming but very strange.

The relentless strangeness of the strangeness of the strangeness is a good thing. You never get used to the background strangeness. This is a world inhabited by lots and lots of insane people who all think that the other insane people they share the world with are insane.

So far season two is a little less coherent than season one.

A House Through Time

A historian is tracking the biographies of people who have lived in his house in Liverpool from when the house was built until he moved in.

Lots of opportunities to talk about social history and the economic history of Liverpool. Lots of sad stories.

Agent Carter

Marvel heroine Peggy Carter thinks and kicks her way though some Marvelesque capers in the 1940's. Season one in New York, season two in LA.

Hayley Atwell is currently amongst my favourite actors after watching Howard's End. Agent Carter is a romp.

Comments

[alithea]

You already know we agree on the history programmes :)

I loved season 1 of Agent Carter a lot more than season 2 - I was very sad but also not surprised when it was cancelled after the 2nd season. I too have a thing for Hayley Atwell and thoroughly enjoyed her in Howard's End when I finally got around to watching it earlier this month. Of course I also have a weakness for Edwardian dress so it ticked many boxes for me!

New BSG had some brilliant parts that I'm confident you'll love but also some bits I suspect you'll be disappointed by. Definitely worth the effort over all though.

[danieldwilliam]

Howard's End was laugh out loud funny.

Some programmes should end when they end. There's no point flogging a dead horse.

I shall push on with BSG.

I'm not finding the mentions of God offputting but I am wondering where it's going. It's certainly unusual to have such an explicit conversation about God in a television programme.

[alithea]

I think the writers also spent a chunk of time wondering where they were going and then ended up in a position where they only had one option. Starbuck is particularly badly served by it but I shall say no more because I managed to watch it a few years back without being spoiled for the ending and I don't want to spoil you if you also avoided it at the time!

[danieldwilliam]

Your polite reticence is much appreciated.

[andrewducker]

I wish I'd read this before coming round!

(Jane got me the whole thing for Christmas, and we're going to watch it when we've finished Stranger Things)