In my last post, I talked about a few TV shows I’ve liked in the past. There is none that I’ve thought, “This is amazing. I must see what happens next!” I don’t watch any TV now except what I crall ‘gentle competition’ shows such as the original GBBO with Sue and Mel. I don’t expect those to be realistic, obviously, so that’s not an issue when I watch.
Oh! I did enjoy the Poirot series, despite it being problematic in several ways. One was using white British actors for all the roles, no matter what ethnicity the character was supposed to be. That was cringe-inducing. In addition, the later seasons tried to be more action-heavy than the novels–which was ludicrous and didn’t add anything to the stories. There was one in particular in which they added a gun where there absolutely didn’t need to be one. Like a doctor in a rural English town would have a gun in his home? In that day and age. Sigh.
David Suchet was sublime as Poirot, though. I have such respect for him. In addition, Pauline Moran, Hugh Fraser, and Philip Jackson were terrific as the back-up trio, and I was really sad that they got either cut out completely or drastically curtailed. I know it was supposedly for cost-saving measures, but it’s horseshit. They made the show along with Suchet, and there was something missing when they were done dirty like that.
In addition, if I wanted to watch it on Amazon Prime, I had to have two different subs in order to do so. Why? Because the series changed hands at some point. The first number of series is on, say, Acorn. The last half is on, say, BritBox. I’m not saynig it’s those two companies specifically, but it’s something like that. Which is fucking ridiculous. Hm. Now it’s just BritBox. I wonder what happened on that front. Anyway, what I did was sign up for the free trials, inhale the series (for the fourth or fifth time) in a week or so, then canceled my trial.
I should not have to do that. If I have a subscription to Prime, then I should actually be able to watch shit with my Prime membership. Otherwise, what’s the fucking point? Well, the point is free shipping–at least for me. It’s certainly not for the movie/TV seciton. I have been able to watch maybe one or two movies/TV shows for free that way, and I’ve basically given up.
That was a tangent!