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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 18, 2018 21:34:10 GMT
Another The Guardian journalist:
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 1, 2019 20:36:08 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 3, 2019 18:42:21 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Jan 4, 2019 15:45:50 GMT
Here we go again! Entertainment Weekly’s “Winter TV Preview” edition just arrived, and of course there’s no mention of Brexit. In fact, their calendar of shows skips right over January 19. They do include lots of other HBO shows that I’ve never heard of, though.
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Post by onebluestocking on Jan 4, 2019 16:00:49 GMT
I expect it will be more anticipated, and watched, in the UK.
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Post by roverpup on Jan 4, 2019 16:55:11 GMT
Here in Canada there has been a fair amount of mention of it in summary articles about what's coming up on subscription TV streamers.
And the (blech!!!) TO Sun did mention it too in a "what's not to miss on TV" piece.
No mention of it yet, though, on Crave's own Coming Attractions crawl. And it isn't in the search engine on Crave yet either.
I am keeping an eye out for it though.😉
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Post by mllemass on Jan 4, 2019 18:48:09 GMT
Sorry - deleted - wrong thread!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 4, 2019 23:09:07 GMT
I expect it will be more anticipated, and watched, in the UK. I wanted to comment earlier (and I just remembered!) that a lot of what I’m reading and there’s a lot! Actually remind me to our local situation. Actually local and national situation. People here are also angry at the establishment and feel betrayed by traditional politicians. Locally a supposedly independent governor won for the first time ever here years ago. His government has been awful. He made a lot of promises that were impossible to achieve and/or he didn’t planned to do it. Nationally, well, we just have a new populist president although in our case he is actually from the left. We will see what happens but enough to say that he has been trying to be president for decades and now suddenly he was the most voted president in modern times. He has always claimed that he won before and made huge protests. Middle classes used to see him as an extremist and divisive figure and made fun of him. Now a lot of them clearly voted for him. I even knew a guy a few years ago that (he said) was a “professional troll”. He supposedly was in a politician’s payroll and he semi-anonymously attacked critics of the politician. He later had a problem with his boss so then attacked him, too on social media. He went to work with a political rival (doing other stuff) and then later got angry at them, too and abused them on social media! In his article, Oliver said Cummings used to do things like that against Cameron! It’s a brave new world and even with the local difference it’s something that is happening almost everywhere. I think it could an interesting watc not just to understand the UK but to understand what happened to all of us! Including the USA with their own “problem” . I just hope people is interested! There aren’t superheroes so who knows?
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Post by roverpup on Jan 4, 2019 23:22:55 GMT
I expect it will be more anticipated, and watched, in the UK. I wanted to comment earlier (and I just remembered!) that a lot of what I’m reading and there’s a lot! Actually remind me to our local situation. Actually local and national situation. People here are also angry at the establishment and feel betrayed by traditional politicians. Locally a supposedly independent governor won for the first time ever here years ago. His government has been awful. He made a lot of promises that were impossible to achieve and/or he didn’t planned to do it. Nationally, well, we just have a new populist president although in our case he is actually from the left. We will see what happens but enough to say that he has been trying to be president for decades and now suddenly he was the most voted president in modern times. He has always claimed that he won before and made huge protests. Middle classes used to see him as an extremist and divisive figure and made fun of him. Now a lot of them clearly voted for him. I even knew a guy a few years ago that (he said) was a “professional troll”. He supposedly was in a politician’s payroll and he semi-anonymously attacked critics of the politician. He later had a problem with his boss so then attacked him, too on social media. He went to work with a political rival (doing other stuff) and then later got angry at them, too and abused them on social media! In his article, Oliver said Cummings used to do things like that against Cameron! It’s a brave new world and even with the local difference it’s something that is happening almost everywhere. I think it could an interesting watc not just to understand the UK but to understand what happened to all of us! Including the USA with their own “problem” . I just hope people is interested! There aren’t superheroes so who knows? Dan and I were discussing the relevance of this movie to Canadians and it harkens directly back to the tribal feeling brought on by the Quebec Referendum(s). Family members against family members, friends pitted against each other if they were voting either "oui" or "non". The imagined destruction of the very country. Economic ruin. Massive disruption in many lives - both in and outside of the territory that is voting. This aspect seems all too familiar to me.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 8, 2019 20:37:12 GMT
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