My Current Interest

                I’m a little hesitant to write about this show.   It’s not because there is anything wrong with it.   My hesitancy is all about the fact that I have not seen the episodes in order.   That is a hang up of mine.   I like to watch and read series from the very beginning and not start in the middle.   However, when I find a show because of weekly marathons on TV, being able to begin at the beginning is out of my control.   My only option is to watch the show out of order until I decide to get the DVDs.   Then I can see each episode as I would like.   Until then, I’m going to enjoy CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in any order it arrives.                 Even though this show has been on for years and there are plenty of episodes to air, the ones I have seen most frequently are the re...

                  I don’t know why, but I have a tendency to find some of my favorite TV shows by accident.   The Doctor Blake Mysteries is a show I happened to find because I left PBS on.   I can’t remember what I was watching before it, but the little I saw when Dr. Blake came on made me intrigued and I didn’t change the channel.   Instead I fell asleep not far in.   It’s not that the show was boring, I was tired.   So the next week, when Doctor Blake was on again, I decided to give it another try.   This time I stayed awake and ever since I have looked forward to every single episode.   Unfortunately, since I don’t have a source to rent this show on DVD, the only way I can watch it is when it airs on PBS.   If I miss an episode, I have to try and find a re-airing if there is one.   This is not always easy, but it is definitely worth it.   ...

                  I did not come across Garden of Lies on my own.   My mother gave it to me.   She had read it and thought I might like it.   I certainly did.   The book mixes two things I really enjoy: historical fiction and mysteries.   Set in Victorian London the book definitely got the historical fiction part down.   As for the mystery, it is probably one of the best I have read in quite awhile.                                   Ursula Kern does not believe her friend commit suicide.   Anne made a good living working for Ursula’s secretarial agency and always came into the office happy.   There’s nothing to lead one to think she would take her own life.   At least not anyone that really knew her. ...

                   If for some odd reason Eddie Redmayne had not been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar this year (this would have been a travesty, by the way), I fully believe the award should have gone to Benedict Cumberbatch.   His work in The Imitation Game is absolutely fantastic, and had this film not come out the same year as The Theory of Everything , I’m sure Mr. Cumberbatch would have won quite a few awards.   He, and the rest of the cast, did such a beautiful job with this story.   They easily could have taken the story of a man who has long lived in the shadows and either glorified or vilified him, but instead did neither. They made him simply a man.   A genius, but a man all the same.                   It’s World War II and the British military is desperately trying to figure...