Television

Task:

I just did episode 6 of 7 and this show just keeps getting better each episode. This last episode was intense and I am really curious as to how it will all be tied off next week.

Bodies:

Brits do love their cop shows and I guess if I am honest with myself so am I as I keep watching them. So this here is not one, not two, nor is it even three it is FOUR cop shows all at once.

This isn’t much of a spoiler as you learn this within the fist 15 minutes of E1, It is really interesting setup Four cops find the same exact body in the same exact alleyway, one is in the late 1800s, one is during WWII, one is on the modern day and one is 30 years into the future.

Stephen Graham is peaking and he is clearly riding his wave.

Slow Horses:

I have only done the first episode of the new season and this season starts off right where last season ended and it just so great.

Stranger Things:

What can I say it is the current best show airing so I am doing a rewatch ahead of next season. I just re-watched season 2 episode 8 and man watching Bob Newby die still really sucks.

I hope to finish this current rewatch before the end of November, when the next season comes out.

William Tecumseh Sherman: Beyond the March to the Sea:

One of the many down sides of being raised as poor white trash in a Virginia city is that you get a deluge of Civil War Propaganda growing up. I have been indoctrinated into all the lore that reveres General Lee but I have never really know much about all the significant Northern Generals. So I have been on a bit of a kick to change that.

Sherman famously gutted the South to win the war for slavery. He destroyed Atlanta and then proceeded to do the same to everything he could.

This doc is not about that. It is all about everything else he did. He was a lawyer an engineer, a banker the head of a university in Louisiana and survived two ships wrecks in the same day.

He also fought in all the Indian Wars leading up to the Civil and lost so many battle because his forces were outnumbered and ordered to back off at key moments. He learned that is how to prolong a war, so when his time came in the civil war..

The Crimean War:

This documentary is about the Crimean War that famously featured The Charge of the Light Brigade and Florence Nightengale.

As with all wars it is a war of idiocy, stupid reasons and terrible leadership. Like all wars it was only supposed to last a month, so it started badly and never got better.

No need for proper sanitation, we wont be there that long…no need for proper supply or medical services, we wont be there that long…

Four months into the war, that was only supposed to last a month, the French and English Army had lost 10,000 men and hadn’t fired a shot.

Cholera is an unforgiving critter…