“What time will it finish?’ my husband asked.
“Well, I’ll be leaving about 8.00.”
“So, you’ll be home to watch some TV just after 9.00 then?”
We have a Sky box and several series recorded. We tend to
binge watch them, starting with oldest first. We have less than 20% of the disk
free. We don’t have Netflix. Other half
protests. I’d quite like to, but for sure we’d probably never get through it
all.
Last night we finished Father
Brown. Cosy crimes and English village life with a good dose of the
Catholic Church. Grantchester has parallels yet we have still to watch that; it is
definitely C of E. Call the Midwife is
there too. Some find it too sentimental?
It’s uplifting though there is some sadness. We need uplifting sometimes.
Fun too are Death in Paradise
and After Paradise. Amazing how
the jolly music always comes after the murder had been committed.
Never go to Oxford or Midsommer –they too are full of
murders.
Well, we make up for that with some gritty Walter Presents crime / police
procedurals / thrillers in other languages. Though that woman who keeps losing
her keys and the baby that keeps threatening to cry get a little tedious after
a while.
Then there are the more serious programme like the drama
about the Post Office scandal and the documentary about the miners’ strike.
Casualty has been
around forever, hasn’t it? Charlie arrived as a young man and now he is gone. Rumour
has it that it has saved lives. I couldn’t quite bring myself to watch it just
before a stay in hospital, though.
And what of soaps? I don’t know why quite – I think it may
be to do with sunshine and a well-to-do environment - but my soap is Neighbours. And another one, if radio is
allowed here, The Archers.
We mustn’t forget all of those excellent dramas on the terrestrial
channels. They are usually British produced. I think we do drama rather well.
Watching TV is an easy way of absorbing story. Could I ever
write for it? I’d like to give it a go one day. But if nothing else, these
programmes help further develop my sense of story.
There is a disadvantage, though, being a writer: I can usually
work out what’s going to happen and whodunit.
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