Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MrsNorthie]

Of course I am a bit susceptible to this sort of thing as I find trees and forests to be sort of magical.

I love trees and forests too, I am like a little kid when I get to go walking in the woodlands. You never know what you might see.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Most British crime series are great to watch. But Midsummer is of my list for several years now. I much prefer series like Happy valley.

There are also great Swedish and Danish crime series I like. These often involve politics too. Like the most recent Borgen, about oil drilling in Greenland.

I like Midsomer (mostly the Tom (Nettle) years) and Death in Paradise because they are light and mostly free of politics.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Midsommar is one of those films that people like me *absolutely detest* because it just plucks fake folklore and badly researched wikipedia articles and mashes it together to make a 'fun horror film'

And I'm sitting there just noting all the discrepancies, errors, full invented BS that casual watchers believe is true.

It drives me up a wall, spread of misinformation ad nauseum.

The real problem, is you have to really dig deep and get rather academic about the research to discover just how bogus it all is -- and no one wants to do that due diligence except hyper nerds like me.




Those 19th century 'antiquarians' did folklore dirty and we are still just surfacing from all the absolute CRAP they put out.

Read Professor Ronald Hutton if you're curious about..well, facts.

Midsomer Murders. English crime light-drama.

 

[Molpet]

Midsommar is one of those films that people like me *absolutely detest* because it just plucks fake folklore and badly researched wikipedia articles and mashes it together to make a 'fun horror film'

And I'm sitting there just noting all the discrepancies, errors, full invented BS that casual watchers believe is true.

It drives me up a wall, spread of misinformation ad nauseum.

The real problem, is you have to really dig deep and get rather academic about the research to discover just how bogus it all is -- and no one wants to do that due diligence except hyper nerds like me.




Those 19th century 'antiquarians' did folklore dirty and we are still just surfacing from all the absolute CRAP they put out.

Read Professor Ronald Hutton if you're curious about..well, facts.

This is a different, a TV show about a fictional English county....murder in current times

 

[thistlewick]

This is a different, a TV show about a fictional English county....murder in current times

Ahh I have never heard of it.

Even when I had a TV license. Completely off my radar. Was busy watching This Farmers Life

 

[BDutch]

Is Wallander one of these? I have watched both versions but I can’t remember what language the not Kenneth Branagh one was in. Both so depressing but the original (non English) even more so.

Yes the original Wallander series is Swedish. At the end Wallander is coping with dementia. Real sad. But less a superficial series than Midsummer murders.