What are you watching?

I just watched 'Inside the Actor's Studio' with 'Columbo, Peter Falk' and another one with Diana Ross. I find it fascinating how these stars got their start. At the end the of the show they get asked a list of questions like what's your favorite word, sound, cuss word etc which is a real crack up.

I watched Coral Sea Dreaming about the corals reefs in the sea and all the amazing underwater life there.

something I dont get to do on land! If I had a tv and unlimited power it would just always be set to viewing underwater and all the fish and sea life then any other program or commercials.

I am currently watching the final episode of The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Some complain that it dragged on too long (eight episodes), but it is an incredibly complex real-life case spanning many years, treading into the treacherous territory of the worst in human nature. Madeleine was three when she was abducted in 2007 while on holiday with her family, and the Portuguese police completely bungled the case with their lazy ineptitude, which eventually saw the chief investigator being fired, though he stuck to his ridiculous theory (blaming the parents), and even wrote a book trying to justify his incompetence and vindicate himself of blame, which reminds me of the corrupt DA and cover-us by the cops involved in the cases of twice wrongfully convicted Steven Avery.

The number of children abducted annually across the world, and the lack of resources allocated to keep searching for the most vulnerable and exploited members of our society, is heartbreaking.

Last week I watched quite a few episodes of a show that goes back to the nineties called Forensic Files, again exploring themes of bringing criminals to justice through the re-examination of evidence from cases which had gone cold in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. The advancement of modern science and technology has contributed enormously to the ability for these cases (lust and greed driven murders) to be laid to rest with the bringing of belated justice. Each story is very concisely laid out and solved in about 22 minutes, making them quite easily digestible; the show is very highly rated.

In the middle of all this I watched Dream/Killer, concerning another case lawyer Kathleen Zellner took on, that of 17 year old Ryan Ferguson, who was implicated in the murder of a sports' journalist solely on the incomprehensible confession of his friend, who remains in jail for something he did not do. Ryan's father, who believed in the innocence of his son and sought his release from prison for ten years, contacted her and she had already decided to take this case pro bono. KZ is incredibly thorough and does not give up, even though she saw throughout this case, and Steven Avery's too, how adamant the system is to recognize any wrongdoing on the part of those engaged in law enforcement, which results in keeping innocent people in jail. Throughout her career, K.Z. has secured the exoneration of 17 men and won almost $90 million from wrongful conviction and medical malpractice lawsuits.

I also recently watched a fairly compelling Netflix mini-series called Little Fires Everywhere,
starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, which highlights racial prejudice issues.

I've always said, that it's better to have the criminal get away if you there isn't sufficient evidence, than punish the wrong man. It's a much greater injustice to punish an innocent man. You might be interested to look at the case of Tonya Craft if you didn't already. She was falsely accused of pedophilia and managed to prove her innocence. Three mothers colluded our of malice against her, and coached children to lie that she fondled them. It made experts suspect a bit right off the start, because female pedophiles are extremely rare. What's really sad is that if she was a man, the chances of her clearing her name would be near zero. Her own children were conditioned to hate her, and she lost custody. Pretty scary. And nobody believed her at first. This is why in this day and age I'd never be alone with a child at anytime, work with children, babysit children, matter of fact don't even need to have my own if it doesn't happen I'm good.


I don't watch TV, I just wanted to respond to Magenta

Hello Lovely Lady I have not owned a TV for the majority of my life, but I do watch Netflix on my laptop

Is this story of Tonya Craft just on youtube, or elsewhere? I will look it up

A couple of years ago I somehow ventured into youtube accounts of real-life tales of tracking these types of people (pedophiles), but it was a never-ending trail and got very disturbing quite fast The Keepers was also about pedophile priests hiding in plain sight in a prestigious Baltimore high school. This current shaking up of the hierarchy is really long overdue. I pray for more peace in the process.

Catherine Cesnik's murderer remains at large or is perhaps dead these fifty years later.

have watched this movie twice, it is absolutely delightful and sad at the same time, great acting too

and my all time favorite movie, because his philosophy is exactly how I have been living for a very long time.

YES! YES! I so needed to hear that speech again this morning! Praise the lord I did. No wonder I have been out of sorts the past few weeks.

Yeah I looked her story up on Youtube, there are multiple videos, maybe there's a full blown movie by now... I remembered that I like short movies on Youtube, Omeletto and DUST are pretty good channels. Usually better story than most commercial stuff. A lot of scifi but not always.

A mother leaves her kids to the care of a robot. Then an unexpected bond is formed. | The iMom

Ugh my laptop suddenly messed up
I am on my spare right now which has unreliable web access and a different keyboard layout Back to my messed up keyboard with reliable web access laptop now I am using the new version of Microsoft Edge for the first time

I also watched 3 seasons of Travelers (sci-fi, and surprisingly fairly highly rated; I did enjoy it as a respite from all the murder and mayhem I have been visiting in my viewing), and then watched Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, which documented Epstein's abuse of women and underage girls for decades by assembling a network of enablers to help carry out and cover up his crimes. Epstein died in prison less than a year ago of an apparent suicide, which some believe was more likely murder, because the guy had a LOT of dirt on so many perverts in high places of power and social position. He had secret cameras everywhere filming everything that happened on his private island, and elsewhere

After the documentary on J, Epstein, I watched a documentary on Ted Bundy~ Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. Ted Bundy was a brutal, vicious, devious murdering rapist and necrophiliac... and then the documentary on Henry Lee Lucas, The Confession Killer, who confessed to hundreds of murders he did not commit. Texan Rangers' law enforcement treated him almost like a media darling because after feeding him crime scene photos and evidence, his confessions came across as plausible, and closing all those cases boosted their own media profiles, careers, and egos, while the real perpetrators literally got away with murder. Vic Feazell, the Attorney General of Texas. realized it was virtually impossible for Lucas to have committed all of them, and it ruined his career trying to get REAL justice for the victims and their families because the Texas Rangers colluded with the FBI and CIA to coerce multiple lawyers to level bogus charges against him. They still will not admit they handled Lucas and his confessions improperly by failing to investigate his claims

200 of the cases Lucas confessed to he verifiably could not have committed, and 20 of those 200 have been pinned on the real murderer through DNA evidence. Lucas admitted for years he was lying; he had in fact only murdered 3 people starting with his mother, who -not to blame her, but who- had forced him as a child to watch her prostituting herself and also dressed him up as a girl to pimp him out to her pervy acquaintances. Then governor George W Bush prevented Lucas from going to the chair for a murder he did not commit. Lots of people just wanted to believe the phony confessions, whereas he just liked all the attention, much like Bundy, but Bundy was an entirely different creature and finally fried, whereas Lucas died of natural causes in 2001


This reminds me of a movie I watched with my daughter called I Am Mother.

Yes, after being laid off for the past almost three months I have watched a lot of Netflix

I got seven minutes in and could not watch any more for fear the iMom is going to carve and cook the baby

Clemson wins at Chapel Hill first time ever in OT now 1-59 .. I still thought they were going to lose again until the last shot ..

seems like you watch a lot of tv Magenta.
I read Madeline Mccanns mothers account of her disappearance not that long ago. She wrote a memoir about it.
Im a bit suspicious of the parents though some things dont really add up.
not sure about the whole kidnapping thing at all but the moral of the story is do not leave your 3 children unattended and go out for drinks every night of the week. You just dont do that as responsible parents.

Hi Magenta, yup I'm done with BB, I loved it so much I was thinking if I should re-watch it again, but I'm already starting with El Camino... Better Call Saul is on pause for season 6... I hate waiting...

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Yup I agree, Breaking Bad was so much better, than BCS, yet what I like about it is the subtle love story behind which I admire, it's slow paced though the intensity of the movie compared to BB but it portrays another side / angles of the character. I just like watching sequels, to add up into the whole story line. ☺️ Thanks for the info... I'm starting with El Camino yay! 🥂 Aaron Paul!

When you can house a whale shark, you definitely are the largest aquarium on earth.


Yes Lucy, there is such a thing as too dang much money!