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awanderingbardMom and I watch When Calls the Heart on CBC, which is a super cheesy, but cute show (hot frontier mounties!) that we enjoy because this trend toward gritty/violent/dark television really isn't our jam. Despite it being a joint American/Canadian production, they've shown, I think five seasons in the States, but only two here. Season 3 started here last night.
Except, oh, by the way, there was a two-hour special that aired at Christmas of 2015 in the States and CBC either couldn't it show here or decided not to, for some reason. So that cliffhanger at the end of Season 2? Resolved in the special. New backstory for existing characters? Brought in during the special. New characters extremely relevant to the current season? Brought in during the special. This was covered in a brief 'previously on' at the start of the episode where Mom and I looked at each other and went 'I don't remember that'.
At first, we thought maybe we'd missed an episode, but I looked on the CBC website and they have everything up to stream, but nothing we hadn't seen. So I checked Wiki and discovered there'd been a special. Then I looked on Netflix, because it's up there, but they didn't have it either. Nor does iTunes. We managed to hunt down a very detailed recap from a fansite to fill in our missing knowledge and there were clips available elsewhere, so we got through well enough, but geez, CBC.
It's possible they aired it as a special at some point and we missed it, but the fact that the three legal resources I looked at didn't have it suggests that they didn't.
Of course, in the grand scheme of the world, this isn't important, but it is annoying, especially for a girl who just wants happy television as she recovers from six months of feeling like total crap and a previous year of feeling like semi-crap.
Thankfully MST3K on Netflix has been proving to be extremely enjoyable for a frazzled brain. :-D
Except, oh, by the way, there was a two-hour special that aired at Christmas of 2015 in the States and CBC either couldn't it show here or decided not to, for some reason. So that cliffhanger at the end of Season 2? Resolved in the special. New backstory for existing characters? Brought in during the special. New characters extremely relevant to the current season? Brought in during the special. This was covered in a brief 'previously on' at the start of the episode where Mom and I looked at each other and went 'I don't remember that'.
At first, we thought maybe we'd missed an episode, but I looked on the CBC website and they have everything up to stream, but nothing we hadn't seen. So I checked Wiki and discovered there'd been a special. Then I looked on Netflix, because it's up there, but they didn't have it either. Nor does iTunes. We managed to hunt down a very detailed recap from a fansite to fill in our missing knowledge and there were clips available elsewhere, so we got through well enough, but geez, CBC.
It's possible they aired it as a special at some point and we missed it, but the fact that the three legal resources I looked at didn't have it suggests that they didn't.
Of course, in the grand scheme of the world, this isn't important, but it is annoying, especially for a girl who just wants happy television as she recovers from six months of feeling like total crap and a previous year of feeling like semi-crap.
Thankfully MST3K on Netflix has been proving to be extremely enjoyable for a frazzled brain. :-D
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Date: 2017-06-19 02:40 pm (UTC)I agree SO much about the frustration against the gritty/violent/dark trend. Trying to find things that aren't silly sitcoms, nor soapy drama but also not dark and depressing is getting harder and harder. *sighs*
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Date: 2017-06-30 06:29 pm (UTC)They did end up showing the episode. A week later. At four o'clock in the afternoon. With no notification. I have no idea what they were thinking. They claimed it was a 'marathon', and they showed that episode in two parts, the first season episode they'd showed the previous week, and then that week's episode. I don't know if this was the plan all along or there were complaints, but it's stupid. And the website still claims the show is on on Sundays at 8PM, when they show it at 7PM. *shrug*
I agree SO much about the frustration against the gritty/violent/dark trend. Trying to find things that aren't silly sitcoms, nor soapy drama but also not dark and depressing is getting harder and harder. *sighs*
Mum and I have been watching Father Brown on Netflix, which is filling our needs well at the moment. It's a mystery series set in the 1950s and deals with issues of the time period, but, so far at least, keeps on an optimistic theme of being able to be healed and carry on when bad things go on. And the protagonist has his moments of having seen war in the past, but overall is just a nice cuddly Catholic priest who likes to solve crimes and has a refreshingly non-bleak backstory. We'll see how it goes as time goes on, but right now, it's just the right level of 'drama' and 'not depressing'.
I've also just subscribed to AcornTV which has a nice selection of British shows (including QI!) to watch. I can't get it on the telly, just on my tablet, but I've been enjoying what I've watched so far. I imagine there will come a point when dark and gritty will get old and people will start to make happier shows again. I think it swings back and forth.
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Date: 2017-06-20 12:29 am (UTC)