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Shrinking and Drops of God.

Miss Sherlock (2018)

Episode 1. People's belly's are exploding (from the inside). The Watson of this Sherlock is named Wato (Wato-san).

This is a 8 episode from Japan.

Currently watching episode 2

The actor playing Sherlock, Yûko Takeuchi, died in 2020 at the age of 40.

"Flying cheap" From (PBS Frontline.)


I've really gotten into documentaries.

Four episodes from a British TV series called Born To Kill?, transmitted from 2005 to 2016 and shown on Sky 1 and then on Channel 5. These episodes deal with the cases of Myra Hindley, a famous murderess from the 1960s and one half of the 'Moors Murderers', Fred West, a violent sexual sadist and murderer from Gloucestershire who operated in tandem with his wife Rose mainly in the 1970s, Dr Harold Shipman, the 'Doctor of Death' who murdered probably well over a hundred of his patients over a period of around 20 years until the late 1990s, and Jeffrey Dahmer from the USA, who probably needs no introduction here.

Secret Invasion.

MCU series, in which Nick Fury must stop an invasion by disaffected Skrulls who want to replace humans. The first episode was interesting. One SHEILD mainstay character dies.

One Foot in the Grave. It is a 90s British sitcom.

Mosley (1998), Episode 1


A TV series in four parts about the British Union Of Fascists leader Sir Oswald Mosley. That's what he became in the 1930s, but the first episode concentrates on his career in the early 1920s as a Conservative MP, his marriage to Cynthia Curzon (daughter of the Foreign Secretary) and his friendship with the appalling Bob Boothby (later a friend of the Kray Twins). There's little at this stage to suggest the pro-Hitler and Mussolini views that Mosley expressed a decade later, and he even emerges in this episode as a ally of Irish Republicans. Mosley is played by one Jonathan Cake and Cynthia by Jemma Redgrave.

Three’s Company
Manifest on Netflix
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated on Netflix
Sonic Boom (watching it for the second time) on Netflix
Bewitched

Superman & Lois.
Fear The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead: Dead City.

Mosley (1998), Episode 2


It's the mid-to-late 1920s, and Mosley has defected to the Labour Party. It's the era of economic depression and the General Strike of 1926. He proves to be a highly polarizing figure, gaining the support of Prime Minister Ramsey McDonald but not being able to fool the likes of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, despite Mosley's adherence to the up-and-coming economic theories of Keynes. His marriage to Lady Cynthia is also on the rocks owing to his extra-curricular social activities.

Gotham Knights.

Mosley (1998), Episode 3


1929-33. Mosley is re-elected as a Labour MP in the 1929 General Election, and becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in Ramsey McDonald's government. It's a rather meaningless office, and he grows increasingly frustrated as his proposals for radical action to tackle unemployment are ignored. He quits the party to form the breakaway 'New Party' which struggles to gain support. It drifts inexorably towards Mussolini-style fascism, and Mosley loses the support of long-term allies like John Strachey. His wife Cynthia dies from peritonitis, leaving the field clear for him to marry his mistress, Diana Guinness.

The Walking Dead: Dead City.

Mosley (1998), Episode 4


The final episode. This is Mosley and his BUF party embracing full-blooded Fascism from 1933 onwards. It's a story that any serious student of 1930s British politics will be familiar with - the Kensington Olympia rally of 1934, the 'Battle of Cable Street' of 1936, and Mosley's arrest and imprisonment under Defence Regulation 18b in 1940.

I think this is a fair-minded mini-series and well worth watching if you get the chance. It avoids being just left-wing propaganda. Mosley was a complex and very talented character in numerous respects. Many observers in his own era felt that he could have achieved great things had he remained in the conventional political sphere, and could even have been Prime Minister. Nonetheless he obviously had serious character flaws, which were apparent even at an early stage, at least in this portrayal of him, and maybe these inevitably led to his demise. I remember seeing an interview with him from the 1960s, and feeling some degree of revulsion about his general demeanour and attitude at the time.

All the same, fascinating stuff.

Watched/watching It's Okay to Be Okay again. Just finished episodes 5 through 8 on the second disc.

It is being watched on DVD which was ordered last week and arrived yesterday.
It is just as enjoyable as the first time watching on Netflix, but there are a few differences.

The DVD set, at least one subtitle is truly too fast to read. I needed to rewind, play, pause, and read two words that literally flashed on the screen. It was almost subliminal.

Another difference is there are sponsorship ads. Once in the middle of the episodes, there is a thin crawler at the bottom of the screen. It is in Korean. Possibly from the original airing (???). At the end, during the episodes recap scenes before the credits, there are sponsorship ads in the form of logos.

The last difference noticed is the Netflix version has on screen translations for the episode title, book titles, and other forms of text in Korean. This is missing on the DVD, and it is missed.

Archer season 3 complete.