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    I know of the book but having just looked it up I had no idea it’s nearly as old as me.

    I don’t read or watch fiction though.

    It’s an activity I’ve never understood the utility of.

    Both disturbing and horrific for all the reasons we know today, especially the birth of Nazism from the mind of a man hell bent on revenge and retribution for the perceived ills thrust upon post-WW1 Germany. A lethal cocktail.

    For a Netflix series about the Nazi regime, I am impressed by the research and presentation, which segues to Nuremburg, using actual audio from that infamous trial.

    But one does draw sinister comparisons with Putin and other dictators, especially when you consider how Chamberlain and others were hoodwinked and wrong footed so cleverly by Hitler over Sudetenland and the subsequent invasion of Czechoslovakia.

    And we are supposed to learn from history?

    Hitman: don’t recommend. College prof/undercover cop poses as a hitman to snag people who order hits.

    Wicked Little letters: compared with Hitman, it has its (rare) moments. Olivia Coleman deserves better vehicles.

    On second thought, I do have something positive to say about Wicked Little Letters: it had a LOT of very good, very imaginative cursing. A lot of very unimaginative, puerile, repetitive cursing, too, but on the whole, very impressive, creative, world class cursing. Four stars in that department.

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    Hitman: don’t recommend. College prof/undercover cop poses as a hitman to snag people who order hits.

    Wicked Little letters: compared with Hitman, it has its (rare) moments. Olivia Coleman deserves better vehicles.

    Thanks for the insight Rice . I was expecting based on true story Hit Man from director Linklater to be better. It is still in my queue, though perhaps now pushed farther down.

    For Wicked Little letters I expected good things from Olivia Coleman and I have been impressed by Jessie Buckley though she has picked some off beat characters. The movie is still on my list.

    Both Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley are excellent, as expected. I found the movie to be a ho-hum vehicle, albeit with Grade-A, Govt Inspected, Four Star cussin.’

    This is a light, enjoyable series centered around a student’s determination to solve a cold case, a murder of another student.

    It won’t win any awards, but it was a small peek into high school culture and students’ lives.

    The other thing I don’t get about fiction mostly from a film point of view is how actors are fawned upon and seemingly seen as the ultimate successful rich superstars.

    From my perspective I can barely imagine a more dull and boring job. Learning lines, acting out scenes time and again according to the whim and indulgence of a director. What is more dull and boring than that kind of job?

    I’m comfortable with this industry and sphere of other people’s interest standing firmly outside that of mine.

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    The other thing I don’t get about fiction mostly from a film point of view is how actors are fawned upon and seemingly seen as the ultimate successful rich superstars.

    From my perspective I can barely imagine a more dull and boring job. Learning lines, acting out scenes time and again according to the whim and indulgence of a director. What is more dull and boring than that kind of job?

    I’m comfortable with this industry and sphere of other people’s interest standing firmly outside of mine.

    Actors and politicians have a lot in common.

    We are bingeing The Resident, set in a hospital in Atlanta. Besides having to see a lot of beating hearts and spurting arteries, we are caught up in the numerous subplots involving interpersonal power plays, nefarious characters, and the struggles of a hospital to maintain integrity in the face of big business takeovers.


    Highly recommend.

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    We are bingeing The Resident, set in a hospital in Atlanta. Besides having to see a lot of beating hearts and spurting arteries, we are caught up in the numerous subplots involving interpersonal power plays, nefarious characters, and the struggles of a hospital to maintain integrity in the face of big business takeovers.


    Highly recommend.

    We've started it, but I'm not keen on too much blood and guts.

    After seeing enticing promos on CNN for “Midnight at the Pera Palace,” we started watching it this week.

    The Pera Palace is the luxury hotel built in Istanbul in the late 19th century, for passengers coming and going on the Orient Express. It was there that Agatha Christie wrote “Murder on the Orient Express, and there that she completely disappeared for 11 days, a still-unsolved mystery.

    So it seemed like a great setting for a series. But after 6 episodes, we are starting to regret not exiting sooner.

    I am looking forward to watching The Diplomat season 2 on Netflix. First season was great. A drama with just the right humor. I think S2 just started, but I will not read the reviews yet in case of spoilers.

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    After seeing enticing promos on CNN for “Midnight at the Pera Palace,” we started watching it this week.

    The Pera Palace is the luxury hotel built in Istanbul in the late 19th century, for passengers coming and going on the Orient Express. It was there that Agatha Christie wrote “Murder on the Orient Express, and there that she completely disappeared for 11 days, a still-unsolved mystery.

    So it seemed like a great setting for a series. But after 6 episodes, we are starting to regret not exiting sooner.

    Be careful about trusting what Netflix tells you or you might imagine that the ghost of Princess Diana walks the corridors of Buckingham Palace or that Emily could possibly survive for more than six hours in Paris! Agatha Christie certainly did disappear and she reappeared eleven days later. She was known to have left her home in England and when she was discovered she was nearly two hundred miles away from there in Harrogate, Yorkshire.

    Ah, thanks, bebopalula . I remembered reading about Christie’s disappearance and unexplained hiatus before her reappearance, but did not remember that it all happened in England. We aren’t necessarily Netflix fans, but are big Agatha Christie fans, so were drawn in by a series invoking her name.

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    I am looking forward to watching The Diplomat season 2 on Netflix. First season was great. A drama with just the right humor. I think S2 just started, but I will not read the reviews yet in case of spoilers.

    We loved S1 of The Dplomat too! Eager to see S2.