Just started Operation Mincemeat. Looking good.
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Watching years and years. In 2019 this may have seemed far fetched but now…hmmm
Swedish mystery:
When her friend’s daughter goes missing, criminologist Lejla joins the search — and must confront the haunting trauma of her own childhood abduction.
Six episode, just watched the first, looking good.
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Over the past couple of weeks I have been watching series 5 of The Handmaids Tale. Here it is on Stan streaming service - I occasionally take out a sub for a month to watch particular things on Stan
I only discovered that there was a series five because I saw an ad for series 6 being broadcast on SBS (a free to air channel). Will probably wait until the whole series has gone to air before watching it myself - can’t bear waiting a week for the next episode any more.
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Having read the book back in the 80s (I think it was one of the books on my A level English lit course), then watched the original film with Natasha Richardson, I’ve followed this series with astonishment and disappointment. In the book, Offred does not have any of the power that she has in the series. There is no to-ing and fro-ing to Canada. It’s very much a case of artistic licence taken to the nth degree.
My pet hate in this, as well as other dramas I’ve watched in recent years, is baldly pandering to politics of whichever era they are produced. I find this a real distraction from the story line. A separate subtext that keeps poking like a beak into your thread of consciousness.
The original book and the 90s movie were both quite shocking and out of kilter with the 80s/90s mood. It was very much something you couldn’t imagine happening. I sometimes wonder how much life imitates art, how much chicken and egg it really is.
I really like Elisabeth Moss as an actress. She was fantastic as Peggy in Mad Men. I am not sure I can watch any more shots of her crying in agony or looking like she has been through the spin cycle of the washing machine. She looks completely fed up with it herself.
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I’m not sure whether this has already appeared on this thread, but I’m giving it another chance as everyone says good things about it. Some things are much better when you put them down and pick them up again years later. This is definitely one of those things.
I think you have to forget about the book while watching the series.
Serena (Mrs Waterford) in the book, as I recall, was much older, had crippling arthritis and was one of the main architects of Gilead - in the series she is young, active gets pregnant, has a finger removed and, like the other wives, is basically powerless except over other women.
The basic premise of the book and the series are the same but otherwise to compare the two is pointless, they are very, very different animals.
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We watched Oklahoma City: American Terror this evening.
There’s not much new information in it, but it was interesting. There’s also a PBS documentary about it… it might have been a Frontline episode, which was also good.
The U.S. is in the midst of a slow burning civil war. The mass murder at Florida State University yesterday was perpetrated by a White Supremacist, and there have been many other instances of far-right violence in recent years. Trump has ceased investigations into far-right groups, so it’s only a matter of time until another big event happens.
I’m impressed that you have read the book Bruce. Attwood was quite a niche read for our menfolk. I recall it was published by Virago press, a champion of feminist literature in the 70s/80s.
The trouble with this dramatisation is that many might think that it is one and the same. Attwood has herself said that it’s not realistic that these characters are still alive so many seasons on. She sold her rights years ago, so she has no real control other than some consultation input.
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I read it a very long time ago, shortly after it was published (1980s?).
In the early 1970s while travelling through the Middle East and Asia I was discussing books with a friend I had met, he had studied English at Uni in the UK. I have always been an avid reader but talking to him I discovered I had read very little written by female authors (actually apart from Enid Blyton and Beatrix Potter virtually nothing)
Since then I have made a point of reading female authors including Kathy Lette, Sarah Waters, Kate Atkinson, Val Mcdermid, Zadie Smith, Kathy Reichs, Jane Harper, Ayaan Hirst Ali, Carol Jones, Harper Lee, Elizabeth Jolley, Jeannie Gunn, Jane Austen and many, many more. Margaret Attwood was just one of them.
That doesn’t mean I don’t read male authors am currently reading my way through about 20 Harlan Coben novels that I bought at the Canberra Book Fair.
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I’ve watched all the series, the actress playing the main role was great, but not for the faint-hearted 
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Hi, I watched the 1st episode the other day (Adolescence) and liked it. I will be watching the other episodes soon.
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I finished Parenthood yesterday, I’m lost now, I can’t find another series with similar format, I’ve already seen This is Us, which was very good, even though too tear-jerking at times.
I’ll probably go back to Gilmore Girls which I had left half way through the 2nd series and also stars Lauren Graham, a lovely actress.
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Hi, I finished watching (Adolescence) yesterday (OMG) it was really good 
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Pleased to find a ten year old mini series on Netflix call Capital. I didn’t know it existed, and I remember enjoying the book about twenty years ago. Quite amusing.
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After my Parenthood binge-watching finished, I’ve gone back to Gilmore Girls, love it! Yipeee, another binge! 
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You will find it hard to let go of Gilmore Girls when the binge ends. I watched it a few years ago and it’s very enjoyable.
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