Amazon..........
 

Started watching something called White Dragon.....so far so good.......:hangloose:

Gist: Back in London, professor Jonah Mulray gets word that his wife of three years, Megan Harris, died in her adopted home city of Hong Kong. Shaken to his core, he flies there to identify her body; he’s told to go to the consulate first and see a woman named Sally Porter.

After he identifies Megan, tearing up over all the memories they had, and then gets the gruesome details of her death at the police station, he sees a man being questioned while holding her picture. Jonah follows the man out and when they confront each other, he finds out the horrible truth: The man is David Cheng, and he’s been married to Megan for twenty years. Jonah is flabbergasted, not able to comprehend that this woman he loves so much has been lying to him this whole time. Sure, she spent most of her time in HK, and wanted him to visit. But he has no idea why she’d keep her life there such a secret.

Netflix I finished the Ted Bundy Tapes

Now tonight will be to finish damnation and maybe start the 2 killings of Sam Cooke

Finished up VANITY FAIR last night. Pretty good... not great... different but also similar to KNIGHTS TALE, with modern music set to a 18th century drama.

Heidi works at Homecoming, a facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life. Years later when the Department of Defense questions why she left, Heidi realizes there's a whole other story behind the one she's been telling herself.


It really didn't appeal to me when it was first announced, but after the 1st episode I was hooked...

Mindhunter
 

I just finished watching season 2 of Mindhunter (Netflix release), the main theme of all season 2 episodes was about catching the guy who had committed the "Atlanta child murders".

Very interesting... about the FBI, and how they coined the phrases "serial killer" and developed what they also coined as "profiling".

It appeared quite realistic and showed just how catching these monsters is affected by politics, racism, beliefs and just about everything else: including bureaucracy, sloppy police work - you name it!

The writer(s)? took quite a few liberties. Of the three main characters portrayed in the series, one was written in as single lesbian psychology professor and working in the basement HQ of their unit at Quantico (and she also has an affair with a woman). In reality, the woman who worked with the real Douglas was straight, a forensic nurse specializing in victimology, and never actually set foot in Quantico and was married and had kid(s).

Having never read Douglas's book, I don't know about the rest of Douglas's real partner, and/or the veracity of his partner's story line in the series - his troubled kid and wife...

One is given glimpses of quite a few of the serial killers they interviewed, as they worked out how to get profiles of these people (Manson, Kemper, Wayne Williams, etc.)

What I liked about the series is that they didn't show any of the ugly assaults that they monsters actually committed... so far... Actually, I don't like films like that, and don't watch them and have been known to usually fast forward if those scenes appear; I prefer seeing how they catch the bad guys and the interaction between the cops/detectives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlJQCyqiaI

The Witcher
 

The Witcher just got released (Netflix), and I finished watching the first of the episodes (first season has 8 episodes)...

Well, it's a high fantasy series - full of magic, mystery, witches, wizards and mages (and our hero, Geralt the Witcher). It's really very well done, and an adaptation of a series of books (The Witcher saga) by a guy called Sapkowski. The setting is medieval, with great cinematography, the music is good, and so is the writing, and there are monsters and such like. Lots of action, battles, even romance...

"The Witcher Geralt, a mutated monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSqi-8kAMmM

SLING TV (https://www.sling.com) is offering their BLUE channels for free from 5 till midnight “every day,” though I don’t know how long it will last.

All you need to do is sign up and you don’t have to give them a credit card number.

I’m getting ready to watch S3 E1 of Killing Eve.

Small Axe, Anthology Seriers from Filmmaker Steve McQueen
 

From Amazon Prime YouTube page:

“If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.” —Jamaican proverb.

Small Axe is a collection of five films inspired by real-life events about ordinary people showing courage, belief, and resilience to overcome injustice and achieve something transformative in their West Indian community. The television debut by Academy Award winning director Steve McQueen. Premiering on BBC One and coming to Prime Video in the US on 11/20.

https://www.youtube.com/PrimeVideo

Pretend It's a City | Netflix




This just aired last night and if you're a fan of Fran, you'll love it....:hangloose:

I believe it’s a Netflix original.....

I watched ONE episode of Virgin River thinking I’d find it hokey (and it IS somewhat Hallmark channeling) but then I watched another and another and I think I’m nearly finished with season 2. :eatinghersheybar:

Baby Reindeer

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...add-rcna148889

We’re watching this small, true-story, original series over on Netflix.

It’s cathartic for both me and my partner. As both of us are sexual assault/abuse survivors, it gives us a deeper way to process events that has changed us in ways we still struggle to process, even after years has gone by.