A very apt description of most TV shows!
I just enjoy as long as I can, then move on...

I'll take that as a compliment

OTOH, I've been finishing George Gently. Obviously shot around the time, it stirs the nostalgia, but has no hiding of cruelty, class distinction, racism or corruption. The English love their cars, so little things like the letter on the number plate meant a lot. They started with 'A' in 1963. So you could tell the age of a car at a glance, which explains so many shots of number plates. The 'hero' seems to be moving all over the NorthEast of England, while working out of the same office under the same boss. It hasn't deteriorated as seasons advance, and offered at least one spinoff show. But they shot under 30 episodes total, a max of 4 per season. They had tackled most of the major issues of the day in one case or another. I'll probably watch the last episode tonight.

I also had a look at The Joker. To be precise, I switched it on because it was on tv, and was promptly urged to switch it off again. I was assured it is very dark and has many depressing and unecessarily violent scenes. Poor IMDB User Reviews

^ Thanks for the tip about George Gently, always happy to hear about British (and Irish?) crime shows.

I actually watched The Joker. It is clearly made for angsty youngsters that are completely trapped in the Marvel universe, and for whom the joker is some sort of symbol of their own "struggle".
Frankly, I effing hate all the MArvel stuff. It's always the same story about suffering and "righteous" anger, and all characters are completely one-dimensional. See one, you've seen them all. Blergh.

Yes, it must be very boring to be married to a Superhero

And I agree. Even Petrer Parker (Spiderman) is a nervous wreck and a bore. The one who had somne personality of sorts was The Mask (That's an oldie). And even he was a nervous wreck. How could you plan a family holiday with a superhero? How would you handle family life if your three year old could throw you at the sun because you wouldn't let him have his own way?

If you know the political stresses of the day, the last episode of George Gently was very hard hitting. It had been getting increasingly political, but weas based on books by someone, so at least he had ideas.

I'll hardly be able to appreciate any 60s-specific political messages in there, but of course that doesn't mean I can't enjoy it.

So, BTW, do you know any good Irish (crime/detective) TV shows? I can't remember if I ever watched one.

i enjoyed this :
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3502248/

its a nice adaption of those Bosch books.
my mom reads em and i did read couple of those also.

There's a few good Irish and quite recent ones. All a bit intense for me.

Smother is one, I think. Long enough to be soapish.

Pretty Little Liars is probably another;

There was one about gang warfare in drugs/crime gangs. Nobody wrote the script for that. It has been acted out over the last few years in the daily news. An established tight crime gang went toe-to-toe with a bigger outfit (Hutch vs Kinahan gangs). Contract killings in abundance followed, which ended with no Hutch gang. The leader, Gerry "The Monk" Hutch was arrested recently in Spain. That's on Virgin media and called End Game. He was called 'The monk' because he didn't drink and wouldn't have anyone who drank much in his gang, in case they'd talk too much.

There were 18 contract killings in that feud. The real winners were the Irish police. They cleaned out the Hutch gang fairly early with their Criminal Assets Bureau(CAB), and got real power over the Hutch gang members as their side was losing. Imagine any Hutch guy doing time knowing he is well outnumbered by Kinahan gang prisoners in the same prison? Or when Kinahan members get moved to the same block? The same cell? Even the threat of that would cause most guys to spill the beans.

When everything was going famously for the Kinahans, the police and the CAB swooped. They got phones, computers, sports cars, SUVs, a massive drugs shipment, millions in cash, lavish houses, apartments, etc. in Ireland and abroad, everything. It was all declared "the proceeds of crime," and they had to explain where the cash came from or forfeit it.

EDIT: All those got trailer ads and slots in prime time, so RTE obviously thought well of them.

^Thanks, b_k.
Just watched the imdb trailer for Smother - is it allowed to show alcohol commercials on TV in Ireland?

And can you point me to Pretty Little Liars? I can only find an American teen series by that name.

You actually recommended this to me a while ago after I talked about the books.
I watched it meanwhile and definitely recommend both. It's the dark side of "The sun always shines on TV" a.k.a. Hollywood.

You might want to look at my post again - I was adding stuff.

I spotted Pretty Little Liars on the RTE player. I remembered the name. https://www.rte.ie/player/series/pre...id=AQ000272985

I imagine there a Geo-ip lock on that, but they are probably up on Amazon servers somewhere,and I can probably get past the geo-ip stuff.

EDIT: Alcohol ads are no problem here.

Can't see it; possibly a geoblock.

That's so weird. The 2 EU countries I lived in, it hasn't been an option for decades. Not on TV. And not on billboards for at least 10 years.
You wonder how it still sells so well

This country has a love affair with drink.

While switching my sound across to hdmi, I check the sound by playing something. I happened to play an ad for http://historyhit.com which is the Netflix of history shows. I've started the free trial, but can't check tonight.

hmm, i think i need to check if i am getting alzheimer's :P
i cant remember all posts that i have made XD

Nah that's fine, it was pre-Covid (I remember finding my first Bosch novel in a free book shelf on Kökar).
The past 2 years have changed people's perceptions a lot I think.

It is Geo-Blocked. But, nearly alone, I'm inside the ring. If they're not about, I'll try scraping rte.ie.

Last Knight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGYSnxwEsho