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Watching piece by piece:
The Expanse re-watch with a friend; we are in the final season!
Abbott Elementary
Game Changer
After Midnight
Star Trek: Discovery
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), is an enjoyable, if predictable, romance, and is fairly non-demanding viewing. Our heroine is a commercially successful author in Post-WWII England who is looking for something more serious to write about. She starts a correspondence with a man who lives on the island of Guernsey, which was occupied by Nazis during the war. Some residents formed the titular society and made a family out of each other.
While there is mention of bad events, most are talked about and not shown, so this story stays fairly light and pleasant. There are some beautiful landscapes. The diamond in this story is a huge honkin' engagment ring (from the rich and obnoxious American suitor) that gets shown a number of times in close-ups.
All the Light We Cannot See, limited series, 2023, Netflix.
I went in skeptical but ended up really liking this story about a young woman, Marie-Laure Leblanc, in occupied France during WWII. It's such a low bar and yet they cleared it, they hired blind actresses to play child Marie and young adult Marie (Aria Mia Loberti), and that is cause for celebration. Hugh Laurie is amazing in this movie, playing Marie's great uncle. The story moves around in time and shows us a number of characters. I could have stood less of the Nazi nonsense and much less torture, and more of the beautiful interactions between Marie, her father (played by Mark Ruffalo), and other people in her life.
The story involves a MacGuffin in the form of a cursed jewel, which seemed very silly, but I suppose the plot needs to move along somehow. I really liked how Marie treated the issue of the jewel, which I won't spoil here but it was very satisfying in the end!
The Expanse re-watch with a friend; we are in the final season!
Abbott Elementary
Game Changer
After Midnight
Star Trek: Discovery
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), is an enjoyable, if predictable, romance, and is fairly non-demanding viewing. Our heroine is a commercially successful author in Post-WWII England who is looking for something more serious to write about. She starts a correspondence with a man who lives on the island of Guernsey, which was occupied by Nazis during the war. Some residents formed the titular society and made a family out of each other.
While there is mention of bad events, most are talked about and not shown, so this story stays fairly light and pleasant. There are some beautiful landscapes. The diamond in this story is a huge honkin' engagment ring (from the rich and obnoxious American suitor) that gets shown a number of times in close-ups.
All the Light We Cannot See, limited series, 2023, Netflix.
I went in skeptical but ended up really liking this story about a young woman, Marie-Laure Leblanc, in occupied France during WWII. It's such a low bar and yet they cleared it, they hired blind actresses to play child Marie and young adult Marie (Aria Mia Loberti), and that is cause for celebration. Hugh Laurie is amazing in this movie, playing Marie's great uncle. The story moves around in time and shows us a number of characters. I could have stood less of the Nazi nonsense and much less torture, and more of the beautiful interactions between Marie, her father (played by Mark Ruffalo), and other people in her life.
The story involves a MacGuffin in the form of a cursed jewel, which seemed very silly, but I suppose the plot needs to move along somehow. I really liked how Marie treated the issue of the jewel, which I won't spoil here but it was very satisfying in the end!
