On The Box This Week

Seems like this time of the year for us is filled

with diet shows and period dramas!!

Here what we watched this week!

Warning-TV Spoilers Ahead!

Operation Transformation was back on RTE last week
we met the five new leaders
Was told there stories as to why they are the weight they
are and some of there lifestyle choices
Paul and I like watching this show every year
and this year I have more interest in it as
I am determent with Slimming World's help to lose
a stone this year! It will be interesting to see how the leaders
do in the following weeks of their lifestyle change!

I asked Paul to sit down and watched this with me
he wasn't too keen but I am a huge Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife) fan
and the hunky Hans Matheson (The Tudors) made this show seem like a good watch
Set in the makeshift town of Jericho Yorkshire penniless window Annie (Raine) tries to
make a new life with her two children. While Johnny (Matheson) goes where the work
takes him and he soon finds himself as Annie's lodger
Jericho isn't sure what it is western or industrial costume drama! I spent the two hours
of the first episode trying to figure this out myself! Is this Catherine Cookson or is John Wayne going to turn up soon?! There was alot going on and I thinkit tried a little too hard.
One hour for the first episode would of been long enough
but with three deaths, a massive explosion and trying to get to know all these characters
I kind of lost interested. Hubby said he will not watch it again as he finds the
similarities of the America railway show Hell on Wheels too much
I will give it another few episodes before I make my mind up!

One of our favourites Mr Selfridge was back this week but
moved to Friday nights for some reason!
It's 1928 the hey day of the 20's but if you know your history
you will know what's coming in 1929!! Harry is living it up
partying and gambling back to his old ways. He seems to have a rift with his
one time close son who has been removed from the big store and sent to
work in the small stores around London. The store seems to be doing well
but Harry seems more interested in partying than stock taking!
The cool and elegant Lady Mae is back to sell her shares after the break down
of her second marriage. The real life Dolly sisters arrive in London
for some fun with Harry! Harry unveils a beautiful clock but has
a little mishap doing so! The acting was great and the costumes where stunning
Looking forward to this last series of Mr Selfridge

I tuned in to the second episode of War and Peace

Hubby half watched from behind his phone he wasn't too keen last week!

I was hoping this episode might pick up after the quite dull first episode

This episode was slightly better than the first but again this series doesn't really feel Russian

this could be happening in the English countryside. There is a huge war going on and yet the makers would rather show us parts of the book that could be glossed over. 

However the actors and the acting is the saving grace the casting is spot on

and the I really like Jim Broadbent and Stephen Rea

The second episode of this epic RTE show was amazing

The casting, costumes and sets are brilliant

This was the episode where Dublin is thrown into chaos

It's Easter Monday and the rebellion is back on. I loved how the shows makers really

wanted us to see how it really was, with Dubliners not knowing what was happening

and Citizen Army shooting people in the street.

What I really love about this show is that is shows everyone from the Free State fanatics, to the beautiful May Lacey who is not sure what side she is on, to the young Belfast lady who arrives in the middle of it all, to the tenements of Dublin to the beautiful house in Bachelors walk.

Looking forward to Sunday night's next episode