We don't have TV any more. Just the internet, and we get
shows with Netflix that way. Very spoiled as we don't have to watch those inane
commercials.
The shows we like are the ones that don't take too much
thought--yes, we liked "Breaking Bad" but it was heavy. Really
enjoyed the "White Collar" series, the characters were likeable and
the endings were routinely good. Life isn't like that, so the entertainment
should be.
Watching one now that is going to challenge us a
bit--"Foyle's War." It is a British series (we like those quite a
bit, in general) where Christopher Foyle is a police detective during World War
II. There are a lot of "jolly goods" and "nasty bit of"
sayings, very stiff upper lip stuff, which is amusing, but the real message is
pretty profound. The moral dilemmas and the routine sacrifices made by people
during the war should make modern Americans think a bit about the things we
tend to bitch about.
Our kids call our griping "first world problems."
Your car doesn't have air conditioned seats...first world problem. You can
think of your own.
These people did things like returning to Germany to make
contact with the resistance knowing that the likelihood of being killed was
nearly certain. The 22-year old pilots were the "old men," because anyone
who was a bit older had already been lost.
Recommend it. Wondering if the British may have a better
view of how the world works than Americans right now, and that the themes of
the show may illustrate how political correctness should not outweigh
historical facts. For instance, the show
gives voice to the great amount of anti-Semitism in England at the time. The amount
of German sympathy. The number of Communists who would later be saboteurs
endangering Americans.
Not a heavy, vulgar show at all, but thoughtful and thought
provoking.
