What Are You Watching?

I'm watching Married at first sight the Australian version at the moment

 

Outstanding Toner LMFAO. Your on a mother level.

 

Yankees-Dodgers: An Uncivil War

 

Old runs of the “Rifle Man” and “Dick Van Dyke”

 

Band of Brothers

 

'Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland'.

 

Stanley cup (Stars vs Knights)

 

Re-watching "The Shield" season one. I forgot how much I enjoyed this show back in the day.

 

The Greatest
Mort Sahl - Is It Still America?

 

TV and movies have completely flopped. Nothing great has come out in a very long time! Really sad I miss the shows you couldn't wait to see the next episode!

 

Aussie Open tennis

 

Fixin' to start Ozark.

 

America's Most Wanted

 

Gotta love Ruthie and Darlene,,

 

I'm watching Masters of the Air.

This is probably the best World War II flying series ever made. It shows the hell they went through more vivdly and better than any made to date.

My uncle was a B-24 pilot during the war and flew out of Africa including the raid on Ploesti. He was shot down and was in one of the crews that a Romanian (or Hungarian?) princess hid in her castle until the Nazis finally caught them, and then spent the rest of the war in a concentration camp. The story he told me was that when some Flak exploded near the plane, several pieces went into the radio and it caught on fire. They tried to put it out but it spread quickly and they bailed. We had his B-24 pilot's handbook which I used to read often when I was growing up. Unfortunately my younger brother has it. After the war there was a B-17 that ended up in a junkyard, and my dad as a kid would go and take parts of it as souvenirs. We had the air speed indicator, a bomb site, the site off the machine gun, a Mae West life jacket, and a bunch of other things. Again, my younger brother got it all as he started collecting aircraft paraphernalia, and I was living overseas and didn't have a chance to have a say in it. One of the items my dad found in that B-17 was a leather flight jacket which he wore for a few days until his dad saw that the back of it had multiple holes in it, presumably, bullet holes, and made him get rid of it.

Everything in Masters of the Air is about B-17's and their crews, but I think it gives a good insight into the life my uncle lived during the war. The B-24 was used more than the B-17, but the B-17's are the ones that most movies and tv shows are about. As a kid my dad and I would watch Twelve-o-Clock High.

 

Couple of cliches that piss me off: If a women is running from someone or something in a movie or a tv show, she is guaranteed to --FALL DOWN!! ALWAYS!! Don't know why writers insist on including this in show after show after show after show after show---etc,etc,!! Women just can't seem to run without falling down!!
Next cliche: Whether a "good "guy or a "bad "guy---someone pulls a gun and commences to blab about how the pointee deserves to be shot and by god, he / she is going to do it!! Then the pointer inevitably edges closer and closer to the pointee , who--of course, grabs the gun and then the fight begins!! They can't blab from 20 feet away? Again--over and over and over with that bullshit.

Now--here's why Ruthie in Ozark is a fantastic exception and is now my hero!! She said that she was going to shoot the Val character and she did not STAND AROUND AND BLAB ABOUT IT--she just shot the guy immediately upon his entrance and that was that.

I've always liked the portrayal of women in movies / tv as being tough as hell and able to kick the shit out of men that deserve it. I look for those kind of characters when searching Netflix, Prime, Showtime--etc when I'm looking for something to watch. NOW---back to Ruthie in Ozark. In what may now be one of my favorite scenes EVER --the man is going to kick Ruthie's ass when they are waaay up on top of the paddle wheeler and he tells her so------she says--"come get some"---immediately kicks him in the plum sack, gets behind him and flings him off the boat and he flies through the air about 3 stories down into the river!!! She didn't blab about what she was going to do--she just did it!! Now , that's taking care a' business!!! Love i!! Top a' the list!!