Brexit to Candelford.

Lately we have been having a lot of elder care issues that leave us exhausted, anxious, stressed and sort of depressed. So at the end of the night we like to catch a show that is mindless gentle entertainment. That takes us to another place and time divorced from our present reality. The best of those shows has proven to be “Larkrise to Candleford.” Available on Amazon Prime it tells the story of two villages in England at the end of the 19^th Century. It is a very soothing program with a gentle tone that lets you relax and forget for a while as you get engrossed in the problems and travails of rural village life. Something totally different from our urbanized information culture.

But you know me. I have to make everything political. It is all a big meataphor.

Another terrific TV show to add to your que!

I don't know if you morons watch PBS. I mean we are more a CMT or FX audience at Lem's but some of you might watch PBS. Well Titus at least. But they often have some great stuff at Masterpiece Theater. Downton Abby which just finished its run. Poldark which was remake and nowhere as good as the original from the 1970's. Mr. Selfridge with the nasty hebe from Entourage playing the department store magnet from the beginning of the last century. Plus they have been featuring some excellent BBC detective mystery series.

"Grantchester" starring James Norton and Robson Green as an English Vicar and a local policemen who form an odd couple crime solving duo. Norton is an excellent actor playing against type as he is often a heavy. He was great in the series "Happy Valley" and is about to become very hot because of his turn in the new adaptation of "War and Peace." The vicar Sydney Chambers is a WW2 vet suffering from PSTD who drinks, listens to jazz and gets involved in solving murders. Geordie Keating the detective is also a vet but much more practical and no nonsense. The first series aired last year and was excellent. The second series is airing now on Masterpiece Theater and is well worth a look. I know it is also available on Amazon Prime. Plus it is a great idea to join the PBS website and you can stream the episodes for free along with some other decent programing. We might as well get something out of all the money the government is wasting on PBS.

The show is easy and comfortable but still engrossing. You can enjoy it without having read the books that it was adapted from and still get a lot out of it.

Highly recommended.

Whose that girl?

Let's start out with a bang. Or someone you would want to bang. Or something.

She played a hot chick in a bunch of popular flicks in the late 70' s and early 80's but she is now best known to audiences playing a nun or nurses or a severe politician telling those naughty Super Heroes what to do.

You can call her now but do you know her name?

Whose that girl?