Wednesday 21 February 2024

TV

Blackadder II
2x01 Bells [2nd watch]
As I wrote when I started series 1, I first saw Blackadder in the late '90s, starting with series 2... and I suspect that's when I last saw it too, because surely any future rewatch would've included series 1? Hence only "2nd watch" here, despite this all feeling pretty familiar. It's also hilarious — my memory didn't cheat; and series 1 is definitely the lesser. Looking forward to rewatching the rest, plus a couple of special episodes I've also never seen.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

World's Most Dangerous Roads
5x01 Italy
Stumbled across this on TV and got sucked in. Assumed it was an old repeat (because I vaguely remember the series from its original run on the BBC, which was back in the early 2010s, and didn't know Dave had made more last year), but turns out it's basically new (this was a repeat, but it only premiered on Sunday). Not that I'm going to start watching the whole series, but this was quite engrossing and interesting.
[Watch it (again) on UKTV Play.]

Non-Fiction

The Art of Brevity by Grant Faulkner
Foreword by Megan Giddings
Introduction


Another non-fiction book! This one is subtitled Crafting the Very Short Story, which makes it sound like a writing craft book, though in the introduction Faulkner insists it isn't really. But it also has writing exercises in every chapter, so it also kinda is.