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TV Tuesday 6/6/23

The other day I began watching the Canadian TV series, Letterkenny (2016-present). A couple of my friends had recommended it, so I added it to my Hulu watchlist some time ago but only got around to checking it out last week. And was pretty much instantly hooked.

Thanks to Amazon Prime, I’ve been slowly working my way through a couple of British golden oldies: The Avengers (1961-1969) and The Saint (1962-1969). I was a big fan of both shows when they aired back in the Jurassic era of black-and-white television.

And as seems a new habit with TV Tuesday posts, I’ll mention a worthwhile film I watched (on TV) last week, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).

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Lights, Camera, Action!

Avengers UltronYou know that great action movie where the bad guys suddenly storm in and take over the place where all the people are, and the bad guys’ evil (but well-planned) operation goes off without a hitch… except they didn’t count on that on that one guy, that unexpected hero who saves the day against terrible odds?

Or how about that awesome disaster movie where that really bad thing happened to that place where all the people are, and only a handful of plucky (or purely lucky) people survive against terrible odds?

Remember those? I sure do. And that may be a problem.

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