We felt the same. OH thought it was a bit like an old Agatha Christie mystery.
Netflix still has The Greatest Night in Pop about the making of We Are the World in 1985 and I watched it again yesterday. It has a lot of footage taken on the night and more recent interviews with some of the main players.
I have the new Springsteen film to watch later and apparently Bruce has OK’d it himself after listening to an interview on radio lately. Jeremy Allen White playing the part.
A thoroughly fascinating programme.
Not a recommendation… Malice, starring Jack Whitehall and David Duchovny. It’s on Amazon Prime.
Absolutely awful acting (Whitehall should stick to stand-up), rubbish script, boring story. Nice scenery of Greece though.
Managed one episode… What a waste of time 
Low key movie, ‘Regarding Henry’, with Harrison Ford, very different from his adventurous archaeologist roles. A ‘satisfying’ story however.
In this film “he plays Henry, a successful but ruthless New York lawyer who needs to win at any cost, even at the expense of his wife and daughter. But a single gunshot brings his fast-track rise to a dead stop, leaving him incapacitated and with no memory of the life he used to lead. Now, faced with starting over, he is about to learn the hard truth about a total stranger…himself.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LbuyYwrCgA
The film says a lot about physical/mental rehabilitation, but mostly I think about being a lawyer!
Just started watching this French series…
It’s also available with subtitles on BBC iPlayer (so VPN required) here…
Haven’t seen that episode - but they normally close the road for their forensic re-enactments.
As to recommendations - the first series of Patientce (C4) was OK, was quite looking forward to the second series but the first episode has rather annoyed me so not sure where we’re going with that one.
[By way of explanation - the lead character is supposed to be autistic with severe social anxiety and awkwardness but apparently shrugs off explicit, to her face, “I don’t want you here” rebukes with minimal melt down - which is distinctly unrealistic. Plus the plot requires not so much suspension of belief but stringing it up from a yardarm somewhere.]
A film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, dramatized, but essentially true to a tragic Los Angeles story of a mother’s hunt for her missing 9-year-old son in 1928, her city authority’s corruption, and multiple child murders in a nearby community.
True events can be more chilling than fiction.
‘Changeling’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRJ3UTIddBM
We caught up with the first three episodes of The Night Manager 2 on i-player last night and enjoyed it a lot, plenty of surprises in the plot. We’ll be waiting for the new episode too come out on Sunday.
So did I, which is why I was so horrified, this was in daylight the next morning, the road was empty but just before he lifted his hands a car came round the corner ahead. If he had done it at the same time nothing would have happened because the camber did not take the steering, the point of the exercise, but nevertheless a helluva risk.
I am watching the first series as I had not heard of it before and my sister recommended it to me. Will catch up with the new one when I have got the lie of the land of what it is about more
That’s the right thing to do. Series 1 is good in itself anyway, but Series 2 will make more sense if you watch them in order.
We finished this tonight. It’s a horrible topic - especially as it’s based on a true story - and is often uncomfortable to watch, but it is well told. Worth watching.
Watching the BBC 4-parter Prisoner 95-1 about Nazanin Zaghari the British woman who was taken in Iran and ended up spending 7 years in prison. Whilst we all probably know the story a TV documentary-drama makes it very real. And it is understated horror/menace and gripping.
The moment when Boris Johnson really f£#@& things up for her by not reading his brief and making up rubbish about her teaching journalists is portrayed from her and her family’s point of view. I hope he watches this and feels incredibly guilty about what he did.
So also a horrible topic, but also worth watching.
I recently found and am now entranced watching through three seasons of ‘Hamish Macbeth’ on Amazon Prime. I can thoroughly recommend!
For Sassenachs there are subtitles (sometimes in error, for increased hilarity.)
We thoroughly enjoyed it when it first came out on TV.
I have been re-watching Only Fools and Horses, all the xmas specials this week. They might be old but they still have me laughing out loud, just the job to pass a long evening
I think we both know what the chances are of either of those things happening, especially the latter.
If you like history Bitter Lake, about Russia, UK and US involvement in Afghanistan, on iPlayer, is a good watch though harrowing at times.
Nessie is alive and well! Sam, of ‘Cheers’ fame (Ted Danson) loads a fishing boat with cutting edge equipment to disprove her existence.
On BBC iPlayer – Loch Ness.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026jp8/loch-ness
Edit - In the film there’s a grey-haired old man, Tommy, sitting at the bar, doesn’t say much – it’s a bit part - but I’m sure he’s Patrick Troughton who played the 2nd Doctor Who in the popular 1960s TV series. He does speak in the film and quips “The winds whistled down the glens at 150 mph. My Uncle Donald had one ear bigger than the other, and when the winds blew, it would corkscrew him down into the ground.”
Is he Patrick Troughton anyone?
Ignore my question. He died before the film was made!