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Originally Posted by El Vaquero de Infierno
I just finished watching a series from the 1980s: The Jewel in the Crown. It is a great piece of television; the acting is slightly dated, as TV has moved on, but still, a fantastic story. It is set in India during WW2, so you have that and the rising nationalist movement and then partition as a back-drop, but the story revolves around the rape of an English woman and the torture and subsequent false imprisonment of her Indian lover, and how those events reverberate in the lives of a set of other characters, most of whom don't know or ever meet the woman or her lover. It also doesn't shy away from the prejudices and bigotry of the period, both between the English classes and between the colonials and the Indians, but not in the preachy or ham-fisted way that things are done these days. It is a series that does not come along very often; it is up there with Brideshead Revisited as far as rare quality 80s television goes.
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I've finished my second run through of
Jewel in the Crown, and it is still top drawer. Part of me would love to see a modern adaptation of this story, but given the need to push 'the message' and the general poor TV writing of this current era, I think it would end up being butchered by some far-leftie virtue-signalling cunt.
I've watched five of the six seasons of
Nashville. In-between the ridiculous storylines and the music, there has always been a bit of social commentary running though it, which I had no issue with. But with season 4 and especially season 5, they just went crazy with the preachy social justice shenanigans. I've started the sixth and final season, but again as always, its peak vanished after season 3.
I've also finished season 2 of
Picard. I don't know why I subject myself to the modern Star Trek series, as they've turned out so naff. I haven't watched
Strange New Worlds yet, mainly because I don't want to be disappointed again.