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Related: About this forumI can't find anything interesting enough to stream.
Nothing on streaming services, Amazon Prime, Netflix or others piques my interest these days. All the previews look like reboots of previous shows. I guess I've seen everything possible in my old age. Sigh, oh well...I'll read a book...what an idea...
CurtEastPoint
(19,897 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,057 posts)"24 Hours in A&E" is pretty interesting (also 19 seasons long!), as are "A&E After Dark" and "Barnsley Casualty". The latter gave me an awful shock though as I saw an online friend who I'd never met in person but who I knew lived there. I knew he'd died of cancer but this episode was shot before he died. He'd come into the ER (which is variously called A&E or Casualty) for something, I forget what, and they ended up having to tell him that he was dying and there was basically nothing more they could do for him. No last names were mentioned, but I knew his wife's name and could piece together enough of the story to know who it was. That episode shook me to my shoes. My favorite person in that series, however, was the volunteer Jane, a middle-aged Yorkshirewoman, who was always bustling about with her tea trolley and was just an amazing person. I also watched some of the rescue shows which were interesting, as well. I like "Nightwatch", which shows various arms of the New Orleans fire, EMS, and police as they go about their business on the night shift.
The British reality shows are much different (I think better) than American ones. In the ER ones you get a lot of the back stories of selected patients, many of which are quite amazing and very touching, especially those of the older patients and the ones who lived through WWI, even as children. What a difference in cultures!
Easterncedar
(5,751 posts)If British medical shows appeal. Based on a doctor's memoir and starring Ben Wishaw, who is wonderful.
Alice Kramden
(2,900 posts)Probably heard it here on DU - not sure. The guy had a sordid hidden life - sounds like a good documentary
Easterncedar
(5,751 posts)I have been watching way too much!
bif
(26,763 posts)Eko
(9,857 posts)Follows the brilliant attorney Woo Young-woo, who tackles challenges in and out of the courtroom as a rookie at a prominent law firm and a woman on the autism spectrum.