at the end of the day, we watch TV, but usually stream stuff from netflix or Asian streaming sites or Youtube.
Some of our favorites are what is known as "cozy mysteries"/
yes, Agatha Christie is there, both Miss Marple and Poirot. You can sometimes find them on Youtube.
They get taken off periodically, but we found a Lebanese guy was posting Poirot with Arab subtitles, and so have watched most of them. Thanks Fadi!
But now Brit TV has reposted them.
But one series I stumbled across but hadn't heard about before was two middle aged ladies: Rosemary and Thyme.
Heh, like Miss Marple, middle age ladies who look like... middle age ladies.
One that has been removed from youtube is the wonderful Murder She wrote series, with Angela Lansbury.... which I luckily downloaded before the copyright cops took it away from us.
the article mentions the Miss Fisher series from Australia, and we saw some of these, but personally I didn't like the main character, who was a bit strident.
And of course, there are the Hallmark and Nancy Drew mysteries, which I watch but tend to dislike becuase all the characters look alike, and the middle age ladies look like they are trying to stay 20 years old, not aging gracefully, like Jessica Fletcher.
I tend to dislike a lot of the modern romance films because the main characters are rich and have few family ties, and the emphasis is on romance, as if you marry and live happily ever after, not as if you marry and join a family and have kids and worry about making ends meet.
Contrast the Hallmark romances with a lot of the K dramas, and you can see what I mean. And in K dramas, there are religious references and references to adoption and references to the men doing their military service (I am old enough to remember the draft, where men actually did serve their country for two years.)
Netflix is showing them to US audiences, but here we have them on various TV stations, or we use local streaming services.
these series include sci fi, fantasy, horror, and family dramas
Youtube is now posting more British series, and there are also a lot of older classic movies run here on the local Asian tv stations.
So we don't have to watch the latest sadistic serial murderer being the hero of the latest HBO movie every evening.
Do they make movies like they used to? Yes, but not too many. Finch was a low key SciFi movie about the need for companionship, even if you only have a dog and robot to keep you company.
and I'm sure there are more recent movies out there that we watched but I just can't remember which ones I actually enjoyed.
except maybe the hitman's wife's bodyguard which as I mentioned in a previous post had me ROTFL.
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just a quick note: The typhoon missed us so we are okay.
update: Whoops. not quite. We were on the periphery but a huge rainstorm hit us last night. And the roof started leaking again. Sigh.
update: K dramas are popular in North Korea, where you can get executed for selling a copy of Squid game.
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