Posted on 12/17/2016 1:10:26 PM PST by pabianice
“The Grand Tour,” which is basically the original BBC “Top Gear” without The Stig or “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.”
Thanks!
Great show. Departing from the novel was the only way to have a chance at making it good.
Grand Tour has been good.
I also thought Cartel was great. Think that’s on Netflix. What a crazy (true!) story that is.
lol
Generally speaking, America effs up any successful Brit show but this is the original trio, who all stand on their own
Should be good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnksJV4Cz5k
UK did Coupling, US did Friends
Holy cow ... there ARE 20 EPISODES IN SEASON 2 and I thought there were only 7. There are 7 episodes & 3 “specials” on the first page of the season 2 menu. Clicking on “see more episodes” brings up the additional episodes. I’m about to view episode 8 now!
YEAH!!
Alas, like so many of his contemporaries, he got pennies for his work while alive (sometimes 3 cents a word); his estate gets millions after his death.
I once read a book called, “The Fatherland”. It takes place in the mid-60’s and Hitler had won the war, though it was because the US had not entered it and the US was similar to the way it is today. I also enjoyed some of the Harry Turtledove alternate history books about the civil war and WWII.
I’m also a student of Hitler’s Germany.
I watched the very first episode of The Man in the High Tower last night. It is the only one I will watch.
In a nutshell, It was the same experience I had when my daughter loaned me the DVD’s of the first season of Battlestar Galactica a few years ago. I felt like I was being strung along, and in the case of BG, It took me two seasons to realize they were making it up as they went along.
I don’t do that any more. I saw how the first episode ended last night and I am NOT going down that path again. The only way I would watch any of these soap operas is if I’m a shut in with massive amounts of time on my hands to kill.
I’ve not had television since 1997, but did get the entire Firefly series on DVD. Although the episodes have some connection, they are all individual episodes with a specific plot that has a beginning and an end. Is that sort of TV show just a thing of the past? Is everything a soap opera these days?
Best intro ever.
Edelweiss being gently sung while images of WWII (per the series) playing in the background. Such beautiful contrast.
Love the series and Season 2’s ending was trippy... can’t wait!
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