What are you watching?

Occam's Banana said:
That is the Archbishop of Canterbury (Æthelhard or Wulfred - probably Wulfred).



Mmmmm ... yes and no, kinda-sorta. (About the "Anglican" thing, I mean. They're both definitely Catholic.)

"Anglican" doesn't necessarily refer to the official, state-endorsed "Church of England" after Henry VIII's break with Rome in the 1530s (although it is often used in that sense). It can also mean the (Catholic) Church in England since the establishment of the Archbishopric of Canterbury in the 500s or 600s.

English/Anglo-Saxon Catholics thought of themselves as "Anglicans" - which to them just meant "members of the (Catholic) Church 'in' or 'of' England." So prior to Henry VIII, the Archbishop of Canterbury would have been both a Catholic and an Anglican, whereas after Henry VIII, he was just an Anglican ...
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I didn't know all of that. *Ignorant Catholic girl hangs head in shame*
 
navy-vet said:
Yes it is a good series. We watched that entire series on Netflix and BBC sometime ago. Haven't seen anything new though in awhile now :(
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I think it's discontinued. The hooker girl is kind of grossing me out hitting on the copper and I hope we find out what the heck happened to his wife before the show ends. I hate it when they cancel something out of the blue and don't at least release a press release revealing the cliffhanger.
 
navy-vet said:
A new series on Netflix called "American Odyssey", apparently a major network first season drop, is high intensity, at least the first episode.
Not something to watch just before bedtime.
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OK, I just binge-watched this over 2 days, based on what you wrote. Aggravating how these directors and screenwriters take a really good story line and copulate it all up with endless stupidities.

For example, when that Odell character shoots the BigScaryNegro while playing dead, she takes no kill shot to finish the threat. This is supposed to be a well-trained "elite" soldier. A gaff like this is pure bullshit. One would think the writers could come up with something a whole load better than this idiocy, proving that they are lousy story tellers at the bottom of it. BigScaryNegro just keeps escaping and coming back... and for what? Forced suspense? They had nothing else in the imagination trough? Holy crap... were I the producer I'd hire a hit squad to kill them all for making such muck of a really good core idea. Had this been done competently, psychiatrists across America would be thanking them for all the new business they were getting as a result of people watching. But no; instead they get treated to a raft of trite gimmicks that are so old and clapped out that it surprises me the suicide rate hasn't jumped for the hellacious predictability and resultant bleeding-eyes boredom.

There was good stuff in it, by all means, but they stank it all up with all this improbable stupidity including getting captured and escaping about 30,000 times. Please.
 
Recently watched "Brandon Bryant the Documentary: Drones & Deceptions"

If you watch the first six minutes you'll know if you're interested in a former drone pilot exposing a former drone sensor operator or not. The middle gets a bit dry, but the last part of Part 2 and all of Part 3 is utterly fascinating.

 
The Viking boy band, all together:

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opal said:
And from the mindless entertainment vault.. Orphan Black is back
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I have a weird fascination with that show. There were some fairly good moments last season, but the writers all but admitted they didn't expect to be around more than 1 or 2 seasons, so they just did whatever with the story. Now it seems more like they are trying to roll it back to the first season.
 
CPUd said:
I have a weird fascination with that show. There were some fairly good moments last season, but the writers all but admitted they didn't expect to be around more than 1 or 2 seasons, so they just did whatever with the story. Now it seems more like they are trying to roll it back to the first season.
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I haven't watched the second ep for season 4 yet, but I'm really hoping they don't do with it what they did with ep 1. I know the cast said they were trying to give a little more background on Beth - let Tatiana explore that character more - I hope they do get back to where they left off.
 
opal said:
I haven't watched the second ep for season 4 yet, but I'm really hoping they don't do with it what they did with ep 1. I know the cast said they were trying to give a little more background on Beth - let Tatiana explore that character more - I hope they do get back to where they left off.
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Ep 2 catches up with (most of) the other characters, it is 3 months after the end of last season. The whole male clone thing I think has been abandoned completely. It looks like there will be flashbacks throughout the season, the ones in Ep 2 were done well, and with some purpose, they are trying to find out why Beth killed herself. And there is a cheeky new twist.
 
Melisandre...keep your damn shirt on, I'm sick of listening to Mr Animal talk about your great tits.:mad:
 
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