TV chat, what are you watching? #3

[xtras1]

Watched "Hidden Figures" with the eldest yesterday.

It's a film based on true events about 3 female African-American mathematicians who played a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program.

It was really good.

it is fantastic!

the mind boggles at the ignorance of some .

[Avon Barksdale]

Watched "Hidden Figures" with the eldest yesterday.

It's a film based on true events about 3 female African-American mathematicians who played a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program.

It was really good.

it is fantastic!

the mind boggles at the ignorance of some .

Yes, the discrimination they had to overcome but they did in the end!

Very uplifting.

[xtras1]

Watched "Hidden Figures" with the eldest yesterday.

It's a film based on true events about 3 female African-American mathematicians who played a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program.

It was really good.

it is fantastic!

the mind boggles at the ignorance of some .

Yes, the discrimination they had to overcome but they did in the end!

Very uplifting.

they sure did...amazing story.

this is another great film, based on true events if you have sky:

The Best of Enemies is a 2019 American drama film directed and written by Robin Bissell in his feature debut. It is based on the book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South by Osha Gray Davidson, which focuses on the rivalry between civil rights activist Ann Atwater and Ku Klux Klan leader C. P. Ellis.

[LordRaven]

Watched "Hidden Figures" with the eldest yesterday.

It's a film based on true events about 3 female African-American mathematicians who played a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program.

It was really good.

Superb movie!
Seen it twice.
Great viewing and very informative too.

[Nucks]

BBC iplayer has a new Charlie Brooker instalment, "Antiviral Wipe".

This clip he played of Elton John though

[Cannydc]

Just finished binge watching 10 full series of Spooks.

A typically excellent BBC production - the end is really....oh, I won't spoil it.

All available on catch up TV.

[NastyNickers]

Just finished binge watching 10 full series of Spooks.

A typically excellent BBC production - the end is really....oh, I won't spoil it.

All available on catch up TV.

Oh cheers for this!

I watched spooks years ago. Only a handful of episodes I think. Have always meant to watch the whole thing so I will go hunt it out and start I think!

[NastyNickers]

Unorthodox on Netflix is a good watch.
Really interesting seeing the Hasidic Jew community on tv.

[Avon Barksdale]

Watched "Contagion" last night.

Well, that was a bit of a mistake...

I seem to have compounded my error by starting to read "The Plague" by Albert Camus as well.

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Watched "Contagion" last night.

Well, that was a bit of a mistake...

I seem to have compounded my error by starting to read "The Plague" by Albert Camus as well.

one of my daughters favourite Philosopher's ...

[.SF.]

whether or not you like this guy's painting style watching him in action is very relaxing (iplayer)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000hjkz/the-joy-of-painting

[Guest]

Watching Fare Dodgers on Channel 5. Woman complaining about being stopped for a 1.50 fare. But it's never just the once is it.
Another woman is being followed for multiple fare dodging. But two men are tracking her and about to confront her so how much does that cost compared to her claiming back 400 quid in fares?

[LordRaven]

Watched "Contagion" last night.

Well, that was a bit of a mistake...

I seem to have compounded my error by starting to read "The Plague" by Albert Camus as well.

Avon old bean, in that case read The Hot Zone. Here are a few famous people's comments on it...

What other people said:

"The first chapter of The Hot Zone is one of the most horrifying things I've ever read in my whole life ... and then is gets worse. That's what I keep marveling over: it keeps getting worse. what a remarkable piece of work. I devoured it in two or three sittings, and have a feeling the memories will linger a long time."
-Stephen King
"The Hot Zone is scary in deep unsettling ways, because it is an early chapter in a deadly saga that will play itself out for decades to come."
-Bill McKibben
"One of the most terrifying books I've ever read. More over Stephen King and Michael Crichton-this really happened, within sight if Washington Monument. And sooner or later it will happen again."
-Arthur Clarke
"Richard Preston's riveting account of a terrifying scenario has taken a vital issue out of the halls of academia and science and handed it to the rest of the world. The Hot Zone is a thriller of the first order."
- Robert Redford“A tour de force … Preston uses the power of simple narrative to drive deep his story’s urgent truths.”
–Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Riveting. . . . Swashbuckling reading.”
–Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Popular science writing at its best and the year’s most infectious page-turner.”
–People

"I believe this is one of the best books I have ever read. The accounts of horror and thrill makes the book exciting and easy to read. The ending leaves an ominous feel for a grim possibility of what is to come in the future."
-Jason Pan "
https://hotzone13.weebly.com/reviews.html

Personally I couldn't put it down, it was riveting

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Little Fires Everywhere, Amazon Prime. I'm addicted


Following the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Set in Shaker Heights, Ohio in the 1990s.

[Nucks]

Watching Fare Dodgers on Channel 5. Woman complaining about being stopped for a 1.50 fare. But it's never just the once is it.
Another woman is being followed for multiple fare dodging. But two men are tracking her and about to confront her so how much does that cost compared to her claiming back 400 quid in fares?

I saw a bit of that. The fare enforcers must be like the bailiffs in those "Can't Pay" shows, probably heard every excuse and sob story under the sun for not paying.