On The Box This Week

Warning-TV Spoilers Ahead!

Due to the weekend that was in it, we watched this 1977 mini series

Jesus of Nazareth by Frank Zeffirelli

I had seen this before once as a teenager and it stuck with me. Paul had never seen it

and couldn't get over the list of big names who starred it in including

Robert Powell as Jesus, Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalene, James Earl Jones as Balthazar,

Ian McShane as Judas, Christopher Plummer as Herod, Michael York as John The Baptist

Peter Ustinov as Herod The Great, and Olivia Hussey as Mary 

We always watch a sword and sandal epic on Easter last year it was The Greatest Story Ever Told another star studded bible epic! This year this was shown over the Easter weekend starting on Good Friday and finishing on Easter Monday.

We love this show but the ad breaks are getting ridiculous now!

With so many ad breaks it drags this once hour long show out over

almost two hours! ITV are well know for this as they have done it with

Downton Abbey and The X Factor but it's putting me off watching my

favourite Saturday night show! This week the lads where joined by

Luke Skywalker himself Mark Hamill so hubby was fan boying all over himself

and let's not get started on all the scandal that has gone along with

the live wedding!!!

I am a huge fan of the Bronte sisters so was happy to see

the BBC had some fascinating shows over the Easter weekend about the sisters

Saturday night the programme was called Being The Brontes

Where various different writers took on the persona of eachof the Bronte sisters. 

Each of the women learned more about their favourite sister and the novels they wrote. 

While I didn't learn anything new from this show I did enjoyed it even if critics

have called it Teacher TV!! There was alot of wandering across the moors

explaining why each sister was the best. Why do we insistent on putting each sister

against each other? Each of there works are amazing in there own right, is it because

they are woman and sisters that one must be better than the other? Who knows if Emily

or Anne had lived longer what other novels they would of written but this show

did make me realise that unlike Charlotte's Jane Eyre or Emily's Wuthering Heights

Anne's Agnes Grey hasn't had much in the way of screen adaptions and would

be perfect for a costume drama on a Sunday evening!

This episode was a little of a let down 

but I knew it would basically the calm before the final episode storm!

I don't think we have to riot as I am sure Daryl is not dead and just has a shoulder flesh wound!

I think Rick has been quite arrogant this season surely after everything this group

have been through him of all people shouldn't be taking things for granted?!

He seems to think himself and his group unstoppable but I think he is in

for a rude awakening next week. I also think things seem to be going too well

for him, his son survived a shot to the head and the relationship with Michionne seems to be

going well so something bad is going to go down next week!

I am going back to a point I made a while ago when we had another filler

episode while I think this show can be at times amazing it has too many filler moments

and would work better if we had less episodes per season.

I am also disappointed in the lack of Alexandrions in this season where is Heath, Aaron, Spencer

and the others the writers want us to care about with barely an screen time?

Negan is on his way and I really hope he lives up the hype!!

On The Box This Week

Warning-TV Spoilers Ahead!

Now that these two are back on the telly
there is finally something good to watch on a Saturday night!
We love this show and it reminds me of Saturday night
telly as a kid a bit like Noel's house party and we love it!

This episode was basically a set up for the next few episodes
and season finale. Rick's group going after Negan's group
Which I think the group have really under-statemented especially Daryl
There is a whole weird love/lust triangle going one with Abe, Rosita and Sasha
Poor Rosita she always seems so much more into Abe that he is into her. I think she really does love him and even made that chain for him but he was thinking of Sasha the whole time he was with Rosita in these episode.
Jesus brings that group to hilltop but before we get a glimpse of Carl's state of mind
"A kid with a messed up face isn't a good first impression"
Rick lets Maggie do the talking probably a good idea after it knifes
one of the hilltop guys in the neck! The group find out that Negan and his group
make hilltop pay so that they don't attack them. Maggie does a deal and the group decided to go after Negan's group. We see a little scan of Maggie's and Glen's unborn baby at the end and even the hard men like Daryl and Abe had a smile on there face when they looked at it.
This episode felt a little thin and one of my main problems with this show is the pacing and filler episodes. I have always said to the hubby that this would be a much powerful show if like Game of Thrones there was ten or twelve episodes instead of the 16 we get in a season.
I also feel like they are maybe dragging out the Negan storyline I am hoping he is going to be as powerful and character based as The Governor and unlike Gareth who was killed off after three episodes

I watched this show two years ago on BBC but when it got 

cancelled in Australia I thought that was the end of it

It finally got renewed and was shown in Australia last year 

BBC 2 have been showing it this week and it picked off right where it left off

Set in the fictional estate of Ash Park in the 1950's we met

Elizabeth the woman who will do anything to keep her family name

She rules her children and grandchild with an iron rod, but she has some dark secrets of her own

I love the twists and secrets that come out as the seasons go on. I really like that it's

Sarah telling the story in Ash Park years later for a book.

I am really enjoying season three and hopefully will not have to wait so long for season four!