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I never could buy this young woman as a young Tennison and that she didn't look in the least like Mirren didn't help but isn't the main reason I couldn't accept her. I watch "Endeavour" about the young Morse and that actor doesn't look anything like the old Morse - yet because of the spirit of the performance he is young Morse to me. However, at some point in the middle episode I decided I was simply going to ignore the Tennison thing and was watching this as a period police drama with a young police woman trying to make her mark. And I enjoyed it quite a bit within those perimeters. I liked the production values and the supporting cast of police and criminals. Stand-outs I thought were the mother of the criminals and the sergeant our heroine saved from a police brutality charge. That actor had a good period look and was always interesting to watch. Ironically her police detective lover was the blandest part to me - until he got killed off (which I didn't expect) and turned out to be married with children all along - which I also didn't see coming.

Vikings will once again be at SDCC - https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/07/06/vikings-return-sdcc-burning-longship/ Looking forward to the previews we will get and the cast appearances.

Where I am it's airing Sundays at 7 pm after the baking show. I must have missed some episodes. I remember the blonde nurse returning to Australia on a ship and saving this closeted gay guy from suicide. Then there was a whole lot of soapy drama about his marriage and his mother being nasty to blonde nurse for no good reason at all. And a couple of weeks ago I saw an episode where the nasty matriarch had a heart attack.

You bet Geordie is not going to lose his job over the affair but Margaret may well lose hers.

What season is airing on PBS right now? I only became a viewer this year.

I have more sympathy for Sidney and Amanda than I have for Geordie, the walking cliche of a tawdry mid life crisis. And considering that Amanda and Sidney are on my last nerve....

I think that's a "pause" in the dialogue of the script.

Happy Valley is terrific but brutal. There is one episode that would have turned me into a nail biter were I so inclined. Is there going to be a fourth series of Grantchester? I saw that James Norton is doing a crime series for the BBC now. He seems to be very much in demand.

They are really determined to make me dislike Geordie, aren't they? I don't care one way or the other about Margaret - though I agree with the up thread sentiment that she isn't the one breaking any marriage vows, and the pickings were slim for single women after WWII. But dammit, I liked Geordie before he cheated on his wife. And even if he regrets the affair and grovels big time I'll never be able to look at him the same way again. Amanda must really have a magical vagina for Sidney to risk his vocation for her.

Yes, a vicar could marry a widow, in the books (which are much better dealing with Sidney's love life) Sidney Until 2002 I believe vicars could not marry divorced women. Quick! Lets have a mystery where Amanda's husband gets offed! I am not spoiled and I sure don't want to conjure up a future plot here.

To be fair back then men were not expected or encouraged to participate in the child birth experience. But in his profession he might come across this eventually and he didn't exactly handle it well.

I liked the mystery part of it. The Amanda part remains as contrived as ever and really detracts from me otherwise enjoying the characters and the setting. It is all designed to keep pushing Amanda at Sidney - the evil mustache twirling father, her having nowhere else to go, etc. etc.. So now she and the baby are going to live at the vicarage? How would that ever realistically be accepted by the village? He should be married already to some suitable woman. His superiors and the whole parish would have been pushing for that. One, you know, who hadn't had a baby with another man and then left said man. Sidney cannot marry her and keep being a vicar, and if he stops being a vicar there goes the whole premise of the show. This series is quite realistic in its setting and depicting the mysteries and the time period - with the exception of the whole Sidney/Amanda thing which seems like some bizarre soap opera. In which the writers boner for one character throws all realism out the window.

This show is so interesting to look at. The scene where Laura sits on the motel room bed while we see the fly paper hanging over head was like one of those modern paintings people pay lots of money for.

Within the time constraints of an hourly episode I thought this did well in showing some of what makes up a person who has been depressed for a long time. It was realistic that "finding love" didn't make Laura any less depressed. While I didn't come away liking Laura she did have moments when I found her awesome - her bad ass saving of Shadow, and the scrappy way she refused her fate when confronting Anubis at the scales. Plus we got to see Audrey again - "Get out of my house you zombie whore!" I love Audrey. That actor was fantastic in the first episode and she was terrific again here.

This was my favorite episode yet. I liked the pilot and was underwhelmed by the second episode. The whole opening scene with the dead woman being bamboozled by that "nice boy" Anubis was gorgeous and eerie. Then the sex scene was startlingly intimate. I almost teared up at how happy and relieved and free the business man looked at the end of his scenes. I am really liking Mad Sweeney - the character is very entertaining and I have a soft spot for the actor who was so terrific in THE WIRE.

I remember the original movie quite well. My most vivid memory is of Rutger Hauer's Roy Batty, especially his final monologue. Which, if memory serves, Hauer had a hand in writing.

This show is just not for me. To put it as nicely as possible I am really not into the Las Vegas style sensibility.

TV series that are not certain of renewal shouldn't leave things unresolved and on cliffhangers. It's unfair to and inconsiderate of their audience. I am sorry I ever wasted time on this show. And the wife abuser is of course okay. Bleh.

I am not surprised. I was sort of kidding anyways. I am assuming they would only have fluffers when shooting porn.

The fluffer must have made out on this episode...

This looks like a gigantic flop.

Charlize Theron is all sweetness and light in this one - coming this summer and looking good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwJIHf5mhPU&list=FLsX0dPIwrJU2dhGSgQ0cMpQ&index=1&t=65s

I am in. I am somebody who couldn't watch Hannibal because of the goretastic and violent tone but here so far I find I can put up with it - maybe because the source material makes it easier for me to look at all the blood and gore through my black humor and artsy lense. And some of the things that could have been so easily very exploitative - like the love goddess doing her thing - were instead eerily beautiful to me. The acting was fantastic - I am so pleased for Ian McShane, he must be happy as a clam after his not so good experience on GOT.

Ha, ha, I was naive to believe this was canceled because of their very public divorce. I should have kept in mind that the trashier the content the better it seems to be for the ratings. Or that new Vegas flipping show is tanking. Or a combination of all of the above.

Well, he's really done a number on her, not just with the physical abuse but also with the mental abuse and his constant belittlement of her. Classic abuser. I don't know whether realistically she could just leave him the times being what they are. And as awful as this sounds I am not sure that being abused by one's husband was considered grounds for divorce back then. It wasn't that long ago before this story takes place that British women were basically property of their husbands with very few legal rights. The Victorian Age was the past, yes, but the not so distant past. Even nowadays abused women often have a hard time freeing themselves from their abusers - even with all the support available to them. How much harder must it have been back then?