Jules
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They make so many because that’s what the majority of viewers like.
The British mysteries are really well done. Just need to turn on the subtitles.
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The British mysteries are really well done. Just need to turn on the subtitles.
oldpop
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It is like everything else these days. Low quality, cheap to make, high priced junk. If you could find somebody who would pay a premium price for your product and then advertisers would pay you a premium price to advertise your product to millions of buyers for you. Would you turn it down? For them it is a win win situation. That is capitalism. That is how it works in a capitalist society. At this point we are all consumers. And as long as we by inferior junk they are going to keep feeding it to us.
If everybody in the country stopped buying for a week or even a day. The tides would turn pretty darn fast I think. That would prove that we do have a say in this consumer oriented world. I could be wrong but I think it would work. It is a shame but we just do not have the unity in this country to pull it off. Remember when you could buy a product and it was made with pride and would last years? Not so anymore.
Someone figured out that if things lasted longer less was purchased so they started to make the new improved version that is junk and and is basically disposable. They sell more that way. The communication industry is no different than any other supplier. We have the means to stop it but we do not have the unity. Sad but true. At least in my opinion.....
If everybody in the country stopped buying for a week or even a day. The tides would turn pretty darn fast I think. That would prove that we do have a say in this consumer oriented world. I could be wrong but I think it would work. It is a shame but we just do not have the unity in this country to pull it off. Remember when you could buy a product and it was made with pride and would last years? Not so anymore.
Someone figured out that if things lasted longer less was purchased so they started to make the new improved version that is junk and and is basically disposable. They sell more that way. The communication industry is no different than any other supplier. We have the means to stop it but we do not have the unity. Sad but true. At least in my opinion.....
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I know what you mean! British English does not always translate to American English, so we have to go look up the definitions. Still love them! Watched the Midsomer Murders, Endeavour, Inspector Lewis, and even Poirot.
Great fun!
By the way, Darkest Hour about Winston Churchill during the war was excellent. Wow!
What murder mysteries: PBS, The First 48 Hours, Monk, many others.
It is the blood and gore we object too. The senseless killing in the plot to fill dead minutes...
Don't drag bloody corpses around and I will watch-okay, okay.
(Poirot, is a sickly presentation of any male=uggg. little Belgian scamp)
There are no murder mysteries in Dodge City; Matt Dillion quickly arrives on the scene and shoots the base murderer dead-case solved.
The first or second Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns closed with him hauling away a wagon load of bodies to collect the rewards;
one of the dead men had his forearm hanging out of the wagon=it jiggled as he drove away.
Yep, he is a good actor, he'll go far.
The first or second Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns closed with him hauling away a wagon load of bodies to collect the rewards;
one of the dead men had his forearm hanging out of the wagon=it jiggled as he drove away.
Yep, he is a good actor, he'll go far.