The You Tube alternative

Here are some suggestions if you are tired of watching the violence porn of US crime shows, or the banality of the Hallmark channel (beautiful 30 year old yuppie with a career but no family ties goes to small town and finds a good looking guy who isn't gay but who never married but promptly falls in love with her).

so we have stumbled across some classic British series on Youtube:

We have watched most of the Agatha Christie's Poirot series, thanks to Fadi, although more recently other sites have started posting them.

Some of these ordinary looking nice folks are very wicked people, (one wonders where Mrs Christie got the idea for her crimes), but Hercule Poirot (and Miss Marple) usually figures out the truth behind their nice guy mask.

and then there are the gal detective/gardeners of Rosemary and Thyme. Lovely scenery in most of them too.

and we just ran across this series, recently added to youtube: again from the UK: Imagine a non violent cop show. This show is from the end of the series:

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there are also other older BBC or ITV series on line.

Being in Asia, we usually watch the KDramas (Korean dramas) on local streaming sites, and some on our local TV dubbed in Tagalog. But now you can see the best Korean tv series on Netflix in the USA. (Crash Landing on You, the World of the Married, to name two).

But a few K dramas are also on youtube.

Saimdang is about a woman artist who is on the Korean currency: But she is more famous for raising her son to be a Confucian scholar, so the feminists complained about it, because hey, drawing a flower is more important to feminists than loving your children.

The series is highly fictionalized and a bit confusing, but does show the tension between a woman's work in the arts and trying to keep her marriage intact and raise her children both in medieval Korea and modern times.... and it has beautiful cinemetography:

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and at present we are watching this modern comedy/romance. Not just the romance between two co workers, but the stories of their families are part of the plot.

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