Thanks, appara. The 21st is d-day.
Too bad, North Shore is on Prime Video, but not available in this area.
Solar, I usually love the cops 'n robbers type shows, I tried watching the early years of Happy Valley and didn't even bother with this revival. Maybe I should have given it more of a chance?
Speaking of cops 'n robbers, on my Knowledge network Foyle has been replaced with Grace. I noticed the reviews are all over the place, so I'm hoping for the best.
appara .... I first noticed Sarah Lancashire when she was in Last Tango ... but I thought she was a better fit for the character in Happy Valley . A cop just trying to do a job and manage her own personal problems. I enjoy watching shows on knowledge from time to time ... currently viewing Injustice .
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Soler, don't hold back on watching the last episode of All Creatures, it finished up just the way it should - a feel good story!! I noticed that there is one more episode to come next Sunday, the Christmas episode that I was hoping for. Colour me happy!!Brit, The reveal on Phillippe's beginnings was not what I would ever have guessed! I thought he came from a wealthy, not a broken family. It makes sense that his mother would be angling for some of the inheritance money that Theresa is soon to be getting! I am hoping for a happy ending for that young boy, but unless Phillippe does a complete turn around, and I don't see that happening. Which of those two vicious spies will survive is a coin toss, I kinda have fingers crossed that they both get put down.
I was not invested in Jean-Pierre's story. Would he not have been better off to hijack the boy from the buyers, rather than try to take down Phillipe and the 'not-nun'? Then again, there may be more to his story in the finale? Or, most likely, that shot was the end of him.
Marguerite solved a big piece of the puzzle for Spade, although I think he may have had his suspicions before she said it out loud?
Dee, I had a cataract surgery on one eye, a couple years ago. The worst was the eye cover for night time!! I didn't realize just how bad my sight was until it was fixed! I hope they find an opening for you quickly!
Hubs had come down with something. He was having chills and fever, I didn't feel like cooking or cleaning. We zoomed through all five episodes of North Shore over the past two days. It's a British/Australian production and the story was well written enough to keep our interest. I do enjoy a little comedy in my drama, and this will surely fit the bill if you're looking for something a little lighter to fill the time.
Appara, that episode was uncomfortable to watch. It really made me realize that there is not one likable character in this story, well except for the child which is a victim of everyone involved around him. Although, Spade's wife Gabrielle, did seem to be a decent person. As much as I enjoyed the series, after watching this episode I was done with the story and glad it was coming to end. When I am not invested in anyone - except for the child - I tend to start losing interest.
I couldn't help myself, the finale episode became available early and I dove in, I wanted to see how this mess of peoples lives would get resolved. Well, hang on, 'cause it is a ride. I will say no more, but I plan on rewatching again when it airs on Sunday.
It did leave me wondering if we will see another season or if this is a one off.
Found a nice little ' mystery series ' on knowledge.ca .. ( appara put me on to knowledge a while back , Brit you should be able to access this ) called Keeping Faith .. set in Wales , with a lawyer who's husband goes suddenly missing . As it unwinds ya get caught up in it. Song at the end of E1 caught my ear , so I went lookin' for it on the Tube .. found it .. Amy Wadge :
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Only thing BAD about knowledge.ca is that Eps. are on time - out .. pop up and fade out .. but they give ya a notice when something is gonna be takin' off or put up . . Ep. # 2 will be available on Feb. 20 I believe . Correction ... watched Injustice , and it had all 5 eps accessible. so there ya go.
Soler, I remember watching Faith a while back and really enjoying it. I've got a couple episodes of Mystery Road: Origin stacked up on my PVR, and am soon going to be ready to start watching them. It's an Aussie series, going back in time to when Jay Swan was a young rookie. I checked and they are starting to appear on the knowledge app, but be aware - the first episode will disappear before the finale is put up. No idea why they would do that!!
Brit, this Sunday is the finale of both Spade and Night Country.
I have NO idea how they are going to tie up the various threads in Night Country, or if they will even try! I do think I know who murdered Annie, and mayhaps solving that mystery will go towards explaining the frozen scientists and a few other odds and loose ends.
I take it from your tone that Philippe survives? I am hoping we get some closure on these people. Like how Philippe came to be entrusted to look after (and deliver) the boy, the backstory on the skills of nephew Henri, and the undercover MI5 agents with the huge satellite on their garage roof, and yes, even going back to the mysterious murdering monk... and how/why Theresa is in the middle of it all!
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Soler, I remember watching Faith a while back and really enjoying it. I've got a couple episodes of Mystery Road: Origin stacked up on my PVR, and am soon going to be ready to start watching them. It's an Aussie series, going back in time to when Jay Swan was a young rookie. I checked and they are starting to appear on the knowledge app, but be aware - the first episode will disappear before the finale is put up. No idea why they would do that!!Brit, this Sunday is the finale of both Spade and Night Country.
I have NO idea how they are going to tie up the various threads in Night Country, or if they will even try! I do think I know who murdered Annie, and mayhaps solving that mystery will go towards explaining the frozen scientists and a few other odds and loose ends.
I take it from your tone that Philippe survives? I am hoping we get some closure on these people. Like how Philippe came to be entrusted to look after (and deliver) the boy, the backstory on the skills of nephew Henri, and the undercover MI5 agents with the huge satellite on their garage roof, and yes, even going back to the mysterious murdering monk... and how/why Theresa is in the middle of it all!
You have a big night Appara with the finale of both series airing. All will be revealed, loosely at points, but the answers will come with a twist or two. When you find out who the murdering monk was working for, at first you will think you heard incorrectly, you'll need to hear it again, cause you'll say nah, can't be... I'm misunderstanding. Your not.
I watched the first series of Mystery Road with Judy Davis and Aaron Pedersen when I had Acorn TV a way back and it was great. I tried going on to the next, but without her it didn't grab me and I eventually gave up. Davis and Pedersen are a match made in heaven - they needed to give that team at least one more series.
I checked, Mystery Road:Origin is streaming on Acorn here in the States.
This was a long weekend for us, ending with Family Day today! My boys will be dropping by later this afternoon since they all have the day off. Sunday was a busy day with friends and family, had a couple stay over for the night. Saturday was 1st year birthday party for my grandson, he is still the best looking babe this side of the border! I think my FB friends are just starting to skim past my page.... my gbaby pic, my dog pic, my gbaby pic, mydog pic! LOL
If everyone leaves early today I am looking forward to watching all three of my Sunday shows, but from your cryptic description Brit I think M Spade will be first up on my list!
Appara, now that sounds like a weekend (and a half) full of family and friends! The best - starting with a first birthday party for the handsomest boy in all of Canada followed up with a family day with all your kiddos. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy! 🥳
Solar, looked up "Keeping Faith', here in the States it is exclusive to Acorn TV, but I will keep my eyes peeled to see if it pops up anywhere else.
Watched an old favorite of mine late last night "Witness for The Prosecution", 1982 edition and the absolute winner of all the adaptions. It has a stellar British cast of well known faces (with the exception of one American actor, Beau Bridges) and it never hit me before, maybe because I have watched more episodes of "Last of the Summer Wine" in the last few years, but there was Peter Sallis in a primary role! Great stuff.
The "All Creatures Great and Small" Christmas Special was a good one. All of the Christmas Specials are among the top of heap for the series, they are the episodes I enjoy the most - this one in particular though, with all the recent upheaval, was quite lovely.
Yes Brit ... the Christmas Ep. of All Creatures ... was a good watch , like how they finished it out with all ' 3 ' going thru the door and closing it . Only think I didn't like was Herriot giving away his wife's cat Oscar , that cat was at her side the whole time James was away .. made the little girl happy at least .
$#@%$ is all I can say about Keeping Faith .. thou it's not KF ' s fault , it's knowledge.ca . Just watched S1 E2 which was just released today , getting in deeper and deeper but don't know when S1 E3 will be released .. good show but ya can't binge . It's like being offered a good meal but only one bit per day. S1E1 expires on March 18 .. at least they give ya a warning .
oh my head hurts! Brit, that may well have been the most chaos I've seen in a very long time, and the most convoluted finale! So, the Monk is taking Theresa hostage with the same knife she stabbed him with in the beginning. Is that significant. Unclear. I'm assuming Monk still thinks she can lead him to Philippe? or the boy? Unclear. It is clear that Cynthia knew that George has literally been in bed with the not-nun assassin for some time - I wonder how she will eventually explain his presence in the boot of her car? I was sure the mystical boy finding & picking Marguerite would have given him a loving home? The random Canadian in the final scene was very powerful, mostly I think 'cause she was so damn polite? and luckily for her she was a good whistler. I would not have been able to call the boy! LOL
I did enjoy M Spade himself, and the majority of his snappy comeback lines, and I had high hopes all the way thru to this final episode, but, Nope, I have no desire to watch a 2nd series. Theresa copying Spade with the sunglasses was cute, she must have been listening to their discussion in the bar - typical kid!
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Yes Brit ... the Christmas Ep. of All Creatures ... was a good watch , like how they finished it out with all ' 3 ' going thru the door and closing it . Only think I didn't like was Herriot giving away his wife's cat Oscar , that cat was at her side the whole time James was away .. made the little girl happy at least .$#@%$ is all I can say about Keeping Faith .. thou it's not KF ' s fault , it's knowledge.ca . Just watched S1 E2 which was just released today , getting in deeper and deeper but don't know when S1 E3 will be released .. good show but ya can't binge . It's like being offered a good meal but only one bit per day. S1E1 expires on March 18 .. at least they give ya a warning .
I am glad that you mentioned it, that bothered me too, Solar - the person who wrote that is not a pet owner or lover because people who bond with and love their pets don't give them away to strangers out of the blue. The thought would never enter a pet owner's mind. He handed it over like it was no big thing and it wasn't his to give in the first place! With all the un-homed animals in this world, he couldn't have found another cat, he had to take his wife's? (Shaking head at how insensitive and lazy writers of these stories can be).
Deedee, thinking of you as I know tomorrow is d-day for your surgery. Sending tons of good vibes your way! 💕
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oh my head hurts! Brit, that may well have been the most chaos I've seen in a very long time, and the most convoluted finale! So, the Monk is taking Theresa hostage with the same knife she stabbed him with in the beginning. Is that significant. Unclear. I'm assuming Monk still thinks she can lead him to Philippe? or the boy? Unclear. It is clear that Cynthia knew that George has literally been in bed with the not-nun assassin for some time - I wonder how she will eventually explain his presence in the boot of her car? I was sure the mystical boy finding & picking Marguerite would have given him a loving home? The random Canadian in the final scene was very powerful, mostly I think 'cause she was so damn polite? and luckily for her she was a good whistler. I would not have been able to call the boy! LOLI did enjoy M Spade himself, and the majority of his snappy comeback lines, and I had high hopes all the way thru to this final episode, but, Nope, I have no desire to watch a 2nd series. Theresa copying Spade with the sunglasses was cute, she must have been listening to their discussion in the bar - typical kid!
Appara, I am rewatching the finale episode later today (I didn't get back to it earlier as I had planned). The most significant take away from that entire denouement...
BTW, they certainly borrowed heavily from Agatha Christie in this; first the scene from "Murder on the Orient Express", then they did a Poirot-like denouncement at the end (which was crucial because otherwise we would never have found out anything of what was going on in this story) with well-known actress Alfred Woodard playing the Poirot role, explaining to the audience all of what was really going on in the last five episodes. Without her we would still be totally in the dark.
...was that the monk, who killed the nuns because they wouldn't tell him where the boy was and set this whole story in motion in Bozouls - was sent by the Vatican... yep, the Catholics in Rome unleashed the monk that killed their own nuns. Boom. The American "priest", who told Spade & Co. he was on their side - was a MI6, possibly MI5 (?) plant in the Vatican - at least that is what I think they were alluding to, although why an American would be working for MI6 I don't quite understand. Hopefully, on this re-watch I'll be able to catch who he was really supposedly working for.
Anyway, his answer to this... "we didn't know when we sent him that he would kill" (the nuns). Okayyy. But let us swallow that thought for a bit. You send a clearly deranged "monk" to retrieve a young boy for your own purposes and you didn't think what the consequences might be?!
So, we went on this whole rampage because Philippe had the boy who every power in the world wanted, he brings him home with him to Bozouls which in turn gets his "daughter" involved, six nuns executed and because of all this Spade is thrown in to the mix with a handful of local characters.
Of course Rome wants the circumstances of the nuns deaths hushed up before they become implicated - so they lost any bargaining power they may have had with Woodard's character/who she works for - which actually was never definitively said.
Where the child is going to wind-up is left in the air, we are never told. It is (again) alluded to that it will be the safest place for him, but no specifics are given. I too thought that scene with Marguerite meant that he would stay with her and at last be given a loving home, but that was a short lived happy thought.
George in the boot of Cynthia's car - I don't think MI5/6 (again, we don't exactly find out which) sweats that kind of stuff 😉. Cynthia was there to eliminate him as a double crossing spy and that she did.
going thru the door and closing it . Only think I didn't like was Herriot giving away his wife's cat Oscar
Whoa. Glad I didn't watch, solar. So a man thinks he can gives away a woman's cat? Wanna bet?
the most chaos I've seen in a very long time, and the most convoluted finale!
Glad to read this, solar. Thought it was me, since I just came back for the finale.
Thanks, Brit!
Hoping your surgery went as planned deedee, and that you are soon tucked in with a blanket and relaxing on your own sofa!
I haven't seen anything on a renewal for All Creatures, this could have been the series finale. Next week in this PBS timeslot I spotted a listing for All Creatures: Touring the Dales, featuring many locations from the show.
Farnon really has no self-awareness - I laughed out loud at him telling Carmody he must develop some tact! and Tricky in the cradle was priceless!
I agree, giving away the cat didn't sit right with me either. I think Helen nursed the cat as a 'foster', and knew that cat belonged to someone, so giving it a family, making the little girl happy was a win-win. For me, the finders/keeper rule applies! LOL
I haven't seen anything on a renewal for All Creatures, this could have been the series finale. Next week in this PBS timeslot I spotted a listing for All Creatures: Touring the Dales, featuring many locations from the show.
Appara, I was just reading the other day that (to date) there has been no mention of a renewal of the series for the fifth year. You would never have known that listening to PBS fund raise after the Christmas Special was aired. My local PBS was hitting it heavy with "if you want this beloved program brought back, it is time to make your contribution to make sure that happens" etc. At the time I was thinking why the big push... with no definitive announcement made there are going to be some very disappointed people purchasing their membership based on the premise that they are supporting the continuation of the series.
Maybe they are in the mix of trying to figure out how to move ahead, although that Christmas episode certainly gave enough closure to end it there.
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I haven't seen anything on a renewal for All Creatures, this could have been the series finale. Next week in this PBS timeslot I spotted a listing for All Creatures: Touring the Dales, featuring many locations from the show.
Appara, I was just reading the other day that (to date) there has been no mention of a renewal of the series for the fifth year. You would never have known that listening to PBS fund raise after the Christmas Special was aired. My local PBS was hitting it heavy with "if you want this beloved program brought back, it is time to make your contribution to make sure that happens" etc. At the time I was thinking why the big push... with no definitive announcement made there are going to be some very disappointed people purchasing their membership based on the premise that they are supporting the continuation of the series.
Maybe they are in the mix of trying to figure out how to move ahead, although that Christmas episode certainly gave enough closure to end it there.
AFAIK, PBS/Masterpiece aren't involved with the production of this like they are with some others, so if anything the money given to PBS would just be so they could pay for licensing to keep airing it in the US, not that it helps the show get made.
Thank you, appara, all went well. Much ado about nothing on my part!
I couldn't find anything on a return for All Creatures on the internet. Perhaps they are trying to build momentum for its return? I can't even remember the shows that went away two years ago that I'm still waiting to come back.
Thanks for the explanation kevin .. guess it's down to keeping fingers crossed .