TV and Film

I am watching schitts creek slowly as I know this is the last season.

Interesting story....

I was alone and watched the movie, "The Danish Girl". It had a few interesting scenes early on but kind of wandered. I don't follow trans-gender issues much if at all. But it didn't bother me, the movie.

Seems the male character wanted to change and become as close to a woman as possible, even to his tragic demise. More recently, trans-athletes want and do compete with biological women. These athletes don't appear to want to create a third gender of their own. I think they want to be considered women too.

So, do trans-gendered people want to preserve the "only 2-genders" fact of life or not?

`@a-muppet I havent seen the Danish girl so I cant comment on that. Personally my experience with my trans foster child was that she had a clear idea of who she was from a very young age.
Selfish ? Yes I suppose I could call her that if I was feeling mean, but I think for her far better terms are determined and single minded. She knew she would have to fight for who she was/wanted to be and she wasnt letting anyone stand in her way. I remember her total elation when she got her first passport in her real name ..It opened the world literally.

Do you watch Holby on BBC? they are running a transgender story at the moment.. Id seen this actor ( Tyler Luke Cunningham) in the fantastic Boy meets girl with Rebecca Root (also trans) and I didnt realise he was trans until I read about it last week..
Really makes no difference hes a good actor and I like him..

@a_muppet my foster daughter has grown into a beautiful confident and self-assured young woman.
She finished college has her own home and a partner with whom she is very happy.

I don't see her very often these days but when I do she is always full of smiles and very content with the person that she truly is.

I am not much of a beatles fan, if they are on the radio, I enjoy listening, but I would never sit down and listen to them. But I did fancy this film, as much for the sci fi concept, as anything:

www.rottentomatoes.com/m/yesterday_2019

It is really good, and it really brings home how talented they were as song writers, and how varied.

Worth a look ladies.

I will wait for your review. I have heard it is like buffy

This keeps coming up on my watchlist because I watched Grimm and then saw the Order.. both werewolf witchy silly things...

LOL @ Pris

I don't care for subtitles or for English dub either. But if there was a foreign movie I wanted to see bad enough I could tolerate the stuff.

The only time I use subtitles is when I watch a British movie lol...  Just kidding.

I don't mind dubbed stuff sometimes, but they usually are pretty bad lol it adds a cheesy factor to it because the actors just don't sound believable to me.

I also don't mind having to read subtitles, but I don't like it when they move too quickly. I was watching a comedy show and the words on the screen were so fast that I could hardly make it through half the sentence before they were onto the next one. I had to shut it off... lol it made it really hard to follow.

A movie I watched last night was a 2002 product as I recall, "Last Call". The movie recounts F. Scott Fitzgerald's last days spent with a young secretary assisting him with his latest novel attempt.

The movie is OK...Jeremy Irons can only do so much.

But it does contain a cute scene where the secretary asks Scott what he thought of her writing. His reply is; "It stinks. Use more nouns and verbs and less adjectives. It will help make it seem more real." Of course, hurt feelings. Scott goes onto say; "you want to be a writer get used to being treated like one."

Ive just finished both seasons of the Umbrella academy.. The story was ok if youre into sci-fi superhero etc etc ,, But the thing I loved was the sound track..

The choice of songs was brilliant including this Swedish version of Adele's Hello


On Tv Im watching BBC's A suitable boy set in India in 1947 it might just as well have been set yesterday... The tensions are just the same and the struggle to find a person to love who will be acceptable to family is still as hards as ever.

Just started The Durrels...

Not sure if I can cope with the main character [the mum] and her martyrdom.

I had hopes when she addressed them "How have you all become so vile?"

But she quickly slipped back into the doormat.