Gee, maybe they could do what Sorkin did on "The Newsroom;" take events from a couple of years ago and hector them about how they should have handled them if they were only as smart as he. Shoehorn in some Gilbert and Sullivan, and it would be indistinguishable.
--Dave Sikula On Monday, November 16, 2020 at 2:45:59 PM UTC-8 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 2:20 PM Karen Owen <ko...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > >> I thought it looked like the UK version of 24. I looked to see if >> >> is coming back and saw that it is with the same actor and actress >> >> as the Prime Minister and his chief flunky. >> > > It was promoted as a “realistic” portrayal of how the UK government would > react during a major global disaster. Unfortunately, we’ve seen how it > would react (or fail to react) in real life, so the dramatized version > feels very, very cheesy. Add to that some very politically correct plot > contrivances (like fixing a public image problem by hiring a woman) or > finding some Nazis to be the bad guys, and... ugh. > > >> >> >> -- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d4ba0564-d8cf-6ba7-249e-3c62374fa4a9%40frontiernet.net >> . >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/07283c64-d51b-42ba-afde-58593a9ae7fen%40googlegroups.com.
