Yeah, that one with Magnum and Higgins going at one another was probably one of the all time worst episodes in the show.

Just finished watching RED.

Gotta love that film

Hawaii Five-0, NCIS:LA and Magnum...The first one of the crossover episodes with Murder, She Wrote...Not that impressed again, really...I was expecting better, I must admit...Nice to see Jessica Fletcher and all...But the rest of it got on my wick...Shame really...

I was pretty unimpressed with that Magnum/Murder She Wrote crossover too. My Magnum disc had the Murder She Wrote episode on it too in the bonus features. So even watching both parts, it was not very good. Like a lot of the later Magnum episodes, it is ho hum.

Well, we're going to do that one in a bit...So looking forward to it... ...We've been enjoying these of the latest series up to now...Shame really...

Watching Prohibition, by Ken Burns. Like everything he does, it is very well done. Very enlightening too. For example, modern day Americans drink 1/3rd the amount of whiskey than they did in the 19th Century. So back then, people really drank a lot!

We actually really enjoyed the Murder, She Wrote episode...That part 2 of the Magnum/MSW crossover thing...

The only complaint I really have is that the Magnum one tied it all up really neatly, so that any repeats of Magnum wouldn't need to be tied to MSW...but the "Previously On" thing at the start of MSW had the ending from the one that tied in properly and had Magnum arrested for murder...

But, no biggie...


Also...Almost Human, which is good...Warehouse 13, also good...Top of The Pops 1979, which is properly awesome...Castle, which is so truly fantastic as it should be a series on its own network that only shows Castle episodes back to back and I wouldn't ever complain it is that good...*Draws breath*...And Agents of SHIELD...Meh...

Oh, I quite like Murder She Wrote. Sometimes they run Jessica marathons on the tellie here. Sort of like a Disneyesque murder show.

Anyway, I figure out whodunit at about 57 minutes into the 60 minute show when Jessica tells me. Darn Mrs Acadian usually figures it out the moment the show drops that one 'clue' of something that doesn't quite 'belong'.

McWife is like that too!!... ...It's like, "Shush woman!! Us hard of thinking need to keep the mystery a little longer!"... ...

We both used to watch Murder, She Wrote with our respective families back in the day, when it was first on in the UK...Probably late eighties I remember much of...Around the time Magnum finished over here...

Oh, yeah, we never got the last season of Magnum on tele btw...No, the last we saw of Magnum was as he walked off into the clouds!...So that's going to be a new one on us anyways...

But yeah, we got the huge grins on at the MSW theme tune...It's been ages since we heard that!...

I miss Tom Boseley(?) Ritchie Cunningham's dad!!!... ...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: May 10 2014, 02:59 PM

My granny enjoyed Murder, She Wrote.

now feel old.

The Eurovision Song Contest...*Nods*...Recent years have been classics...Loads of awesome songs...Not so much this year...It's as if everyone's fielded a song that is almost guaranteed to not win, but is still actually quite good...Y'know?...

Anyways, it was won by a bearded woman impersonator...As you do...

Actually, this was an awesome song...Deserved winner...But, like I said...I think everyone else let it somehow...

The over reaction about Austria winning was stupid.

Countryball had a sh*tfit

I'm watching The 51st State

Love this film

The sad thing is, I'm sure that these people overreacting to what the lad is, are missing the point that he was pretty much the only one who performed properly...And brilliantly...And was, really, the best song on the night...

Sad really...



Aaaamywho...Watched the Magnum where he gets held prisoner on that island...Well, kind of...

And, oddly enough, Hawaii Five-O and NCIS:LA...

I am through 2 of the 3 episodes of Prohibition. Each is about an hour and a half long, so they are like watching a movie. Some of the stories about the bootleggers are just astounding. Like a guy named George Remus who bought up some of the shut down distilleries, and then some pharmacies. That is because during Prohibition alcohol could still be bought from a pharmacy if you had a doctors prescription. A lot of people suddenly got sick as soon as the Volstead Act went into effect... Finally, Remus even created his own trucking company. So he made the booze, which was supposed to go to the pharmacies to be sold legally, but in reality he hijacked most of his trucks and sold the liquor illegally, since there was a lot more money to be made that way. He made $40 million in just three years.

Of course Remus eventually went to prison. If that was not bad enough, while he was behind bars, his wife took off with the federal agent who had arrested him, the two of them took all of Remus' money, and she finally divorced him! When he got out of prison he shot and killed his now ex-wife. The jury let him off on a temporary insanity plea!

All these bootlegging and gangster stories got me in the mood for The Untouchables, which I just finished. Next up, I think I might watch Mobsters.

Mom...

Vicious...

and this awesome programme called Man vs Weird...Where this excellent chap went around eastern Europe in search of people with apparently superhuman abilities...He, for the most part...Failed...Still, awesomely interesting programme...

On to Part 3 of Prohibition, and the gangsters taking over bootlegging. The Beer Wars stared in 1926, when Al Capone started his takeover of Chicago. By the end of the year over 76 mobsters had been murdered, then 54 more in 1927, and not one person was arrested for them. The depth of the corruption is just staggering.

On the happier side, before Prohibition, women never went into saloons. They were a purely old boys club. But when Prohibition came along, the saloon died. The Speakeasy that took its place - where laws were not enforced - became a home for women. Before Prohibition American men and women never drank together. Afterward, women would be found at every bar. It is a great example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. No one ever imagined that making alcohol illegal would get women out partying with the boys.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 13 2014, 10:19 PM

Is there Irish police.

There has to be.

"boyo"

Saw the last episode of "Crossing Lines." Not sure when Season 2 will be available. AND they left us with a cliff-rac... um... cliff-hanger ending. Thus am I repaid. sigh

Enjoyed the series quite a bit, good cast, with only one "known" (to us) actor. And then there is Badger Bait, who is NOT hard to watch at all.

GOT. Peter Dinklage desserves an Emmy for his performance in this scene. That outburst!

What made it powerful was the fact that Tyrion was always a comical character who held back his emotions throughout the seasons all the way up onto this point.

This post has been edited by Darkness Eternal: May 14 2014, 03:28 AM