TV/Movies Megathread

[Gups]

Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon, War and Peace

Hi all. Can't log in on computer or reset password and hate typing on mobile so haven't been round much but lurking sometimes

[The Brain]

Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon, War and Peace

Hi all. Can't log in on computer or reset password and hate typing on mobile so haven't been round much but lurking sometimes

Hi!

[Sheilbh]

Sure - but two of them are set at the time of Austen's novels

Hello

[Josephus]

Watched the first episode of Avenue 5

High Laurie at his comedic best.  Five Blackadders out of Five

Yeah enjoyed it. Some pretty silly stuff, and punchlines you can see coming from a light year away, but good fun with a lot of potential.

[Admiral Yi]

Depends what you mean by romance.

I meant in the pejorative sense.  Simplistic, unrealistic fantasies for bored housewives.

[Admiral Yi]

Hola Gups.

[Eddie Teach]

Depends what you mean by romance.

I meant in the pejorative sense.  Simplistic, unrealistic fantasies for bored housewives.

I don't think that's a fair complaint. Austen was more realistic than just about anyone who had come before.

[Berkut]

Dead wife has pretty great jumblies.

[Tamas]

Dead wife has pretty great jumblies.

"Jumblies"? Really?

[Josephus]

Speaking of great jumbies....The New Pope..S2. ep 2. Nice pair as milfy type pleasures herself with a phone.

[Savonarola]

Depends what you mean by romance.

I meant in the pejorative sense.  Simplistic, unrealistic fantasies for bored housewives.

One of Richardson's novels is subtitled "Virtue Rewarded" it doesn't get much more unrealistic than that.



The novel itself was thought of as light entertainment (roughly equivalent to soap operas) in the period in which Jane Austen wrote.  She has a famous passage in Northanger Abbey in which she defends the novel as, if not literature, a form of entertainment.

The previous generation's Gothic novels (which Austen parodies in Northanger Abbey) would fit your description.  Earlier eighteenth century novels might; I'm not that familiar with the genre outside Daniel Defoe.

[Sheilbh]

Depends what you mean by romance.

I meant in the pejorative sense.  Simplistic, unrealistic fantasies for bored housewives.

I think that's unfair on Austen, but then I love her a lot

[Oexmelin]

I'm not that familiar with the genre outside Daniel Defoe.

Have you ever read Tristram Shandy?

[Admiral Yi]

Have you ever read Tristram Shandy?

I lasted about four pages.

[Eddie Teach]

Dracula E3 is a bit of a mess.

I quit halfway through. Big letdown after the first couple episodes. [spoiler]Couldn't get over how stupid it was that they just let Dracula go.[/spoiler]