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PoindexterOglethorpe

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11. I will say that we are currently in a truly
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 10:23 PM
Dec 2020

Golden Age of Television. Whatever your personal tastes are, there is plenty to watch. Not to mention, many old TV shows are available to watch or re-watch. And even if everything I like you think is dreck, and vice versa, we have much to choose from.

I will admit to getting bored quickly myself. Worse yet, I know enough history and science and other stuff to be driven bat-shit crazy by inaccuracies. I watched maybe two episodes of The Crown before I had to give it up because of huge and blatant things they got wrong. To start with, Prince Phillip was hardly a loving and kind father to Charles. I have had the misfortune to have read a fair number of good biographies of the Royal Family that I just couldn't stomach it.

It happens to me in fiction stuff. Have you seen Emily in Paris? That she gets sent to Paris not speaking word one of French was something I was barely willing to overlook. She claims to be trying to learn the language but after a few weeks she speaks less French than I do of Urdu. But what made me turn it off was when, on a sex chat with her boyfriend she pulls out her vibrator and starts to go to town with it. No, that's not what bothered me. Somehow she had been there for several weeks with zero awareness that the electricity is different in Europe as compared to the United States. She should at least have been shown fumbling for the converter she needed.

I've travelled overseas and *I* know these things. Surely someone connected to the show had a clue.

Well, okay, I'm an old fogy and I really don't want to see a scene where someone is going to town with a vibrator, but I realize I'm old and not really the target audience for that show. But they could still get the bit about needing a converter right.

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