Well you've understood British villains' accents for years! C.f. that Jaguar ad from a year or so ago featuring Hiddlestone amongst others - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7gR7EYjcP8
Happy Valley is set in a Yorkshire town and the accent may be unfamiliar. However, the dialogue is so smart and the characters so well drawn, I'd urge you to check it out. But you know, over this side of the pond we cope just fine with southern drawls, New Yawk accents and pretty much anything you throw at us. Plus we've watched Aussie soaps for years. So I think complaining about accents is an easy get-out. You just have to concentrate a bit harder sometimes. I do however think many issues people have with sound on television today are more due to the awful speakers in today's flatscreen TVs. Basic physics says that if your TV is only an inch thick you just can't put a decent speaker in it. Your old cathode ray tube set - even a cheap model - probably had a booming speaker with lots of space to breath and deliver decent mono sound. That's why the big thing in home audio is sound bars. If you're able to, I always recommend plugging your TV into some other audio device for clear audio. Even a years old stereo system will be better than the speakers in your new flat TV. But that's a bugbear of mine... You definitely won't struggle with accents in The Night Manager. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Bob Jersey <bob.in.jer...@juno.com> wrote: > > Adam Bowie, in part: >> >> in Britain we've been a bit spoilt for local drama with an excellent >> second series of Happy Valley (well worth checking out on Netflix, although >> some American ears may need closed captions turned on) >> > > Part of the one AMC honcho's reasoning was that the accents were not as > much of an issue, but I wasn't buying that... > > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
