I don't think youse guys have been watching "Grantchester" on PBS recently. It has a pretty interesting storyline that pulls the strands of a couple of important policy points without being overly preachy.
PBS or actually the BBC is running a full court pro-abortion press in several of their historical dramas. In last weeks "Call the Midwife" they had a whole big abortion plot. It seems this young teacher gets knocked by her married lover and hilarity ensues. She faints in the classroom and throws up on the tots. It is a big mess.
She gets thrown out of her flat by the very judgmental boarding house owner and goes to the nun's residence for help. She had struck up a friendship with one of the peripheral nuns who needed a storyline. Sister Winifred was speaking at the school when she picks up that this broad is knocked up. So when she is on the streets she goes to the Sister as the only one to help her. The nuns get her a spot in another less picky boarding house where she proceeds to go full wire hanger. The whole ten yards. In the hospital. Hysterectomy. Which happened all the time I am sure. I mean women had the babies all the time but other women did not so that is fair enough. But what is strange is how the Nun was blaming herself for it. She didn't get her knocked up. She did nothing but be kind to her and help her out. They just had to load the dice. It is very well done subtle propaganda. Planned Parenthood should take a lesson.
Now "Grantchester" has combined abortion and the death penalty together in a extravaganza of liberal pieties. In it a hot young schoolgirl flirts with Sidney the Vicar and gets him called up on charges that he beats because he didn't do anything. Turns out she was banging a different vicar because it has to be a white clergyman who is at fault. She gets the hang around dude who wants to bang her to help her abort the baby by drinking turpentine. Never heard of that myself but hey whatever. He is too forceful and she dies. He confesses to his priest Sidney who gets him to come clean to the police. Who put him on trail and he gets convicted. Sentenced to hang. Sidney is freaking out. He is trying to find a way to make him not get the death penalty. We will find out this week. I am interested in seeing how it comes out.
Both shows presented the liberal point of view in a subtle and compelling way. Very old fashioned in a 1950's Stanley Kramer kind of way. I recommend that you check it out. It is far superior to most of the dreck we see these days on regular TV. Even if it is pure propaganda.
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Yes it sounds really really interesting. Yawn....
"A place to call home"
I'm tellin' ya's. Find it...watch it. become an addict like mwah.
I adore "call the midwife".
Yeah, sure, it's PBS and with PBS you know going in that you will be hit subtly (or not so subtly) with some form of preachy lib propaganda. Yet, it's not often an inaccurate portrayal of the era. It's just that the bad guys are ALWAYS the same...
As you say Troop, it's a million times better than American TV.
They combined abortion and the death penalty, two liberal pies.
*bink* Eyes widen. Do tell. Let's explore this conjuncture. I'm suddenly interested. Because when I was a little bitty baby my mamma used to rock me in that cradle, this was just about a mile from Texarkana, wishing the Arklatex weather area actually, and with real cotton fields around she'd say, "I almost borned you dead." Still! So it's personal and I'd like to explore that. Hold me.
A Place to Call Home looks really interesting. Right up my alley, but I'm not going to subscribe to yet another media dealie.
We tried Call the Midwife, but the Dumbplumber couldn't take the gross and gore of women having syphilis boils on the lady parts. It was just too much for his delicate senses. GROSS!!!
We have been watching Granchester and it is pretty good. Also George Gently. Catch the Bletchley Circle series. WWII code breaking ladies.
Well the showed the guy getting hanged. It was pretty tough but just. If you are in favor of the death penalty you should see what results.
The interesting by play was the fist fight between the two main characters. Geordie calls out Sidney on the reason for him always championing murderers. It is not because he is a vicar. It is because he had to kill one of his own men in the war and was never punished for it. The guilt is crippling him. Witness the fact that he punched Geordie in the mouth for saying it.
I know what you mean. Preachy is actually the word I think of when considering this show...and that having nothing to do with Sidney's profession. I would love a little more evenhandedness.
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