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Getting On
Topic Started: Dec 16 2013, 04:17 AM (613 Views)
Trotsky
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GETTING ON is delightful new series on HBO starring the always wonderful Laurie Metcalf as a bitter doctor heading up something called a rehab unit but with most patients in such dire straits it might be better called a hospice.

The show has focused on the insanity of hospital bureaucracy and is QUITE funny.

They have just done Episode 3 so see if you can find 1 & 2 ON DEMAND.

I read that it was based on a British series of the same name but I had never seen it.
Edited by Trotsky, Dec 16 2013, 04:17 AM.
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Yay, Trotsky. I mentioned this when I saw the first episode and was so hoping someone else would love it the way John and I do. It has a low key, often snide way about it and the cast including Laurie Metcalfe is excellent.Each episode is self contained so no one has to worry about dropping in on the fourth ep. You'll be able to follow it and it's worth it.
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I'm sorry I missed your first post, angora.

Yesterday we watched all 3 episodes (thank you ON DEMAND) and we are roaring for more. I am getting a kick out of how each person tortures the person immediately under him...just like the real corporate world. :D
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It is wickedly funny and I am enjoying every moment of it. The acting is superb, facial expressions often make dialog unnecessary.
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Edited by Bitsy, Dec 16 2013, 04:53 AM.
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Angora had mentioned this to me and I haven't followed up on this show but certainly will now. It'll make a change from all these Xmas shows/movies which are driving me insane.

Thanks.
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Yesterday we watched all 3 episodes (thank you ON DEMAND) and we are roaring for more. I am getting a kick out of how each person tortures the person immediately under him...just like the real corporate world. :D


You actually sat through 3 episodes? How can you do that?

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I watched the first two episodes tonight and I always thought I had a good sense of humour but I found it sad, those poor women. Perhaps I identified with them in that I don't want to end up like them. :sigh:

I couldn't even raise a smile.
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We just watched the first two episodes and we agree with Helen.
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Dec 16 2013, 03:41 PM
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Yesterday we watched all 3 episodes (thank you ON DEMAND) and we are roaring for more. I am getting a kick out of how each person tortures the person immediately under him...just like the real corporate world. :D


You actually sat through 3 episodes? How can you do that?

They are only 30 minutes each.

(My record is 8 hours of SPARTACUS in a day and 13 hours in a single 2 day weekend. By Monday I felt should put on a loincloth, grab a broadsword and start slaughtering people of noble birth.)

There was also an epic weekend of a whole Season of THE WALKING DEAD and one of THE BORGIAS...but I forget the exact number of shows in each. Hard to tell who were more vicious, the Zombies or the Borgias.
Edited by Trotsky, Dec 17 2013, 01:38 AM.
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Did you notice, in the first episode, that one of the patients was the next door neighbour to Dick Van Dyke in the original D.V.D show. She was Millie, married to the dentist friend of Rob's. Jerry.

As to making me sad - I guess John and I have physician's humour - rather laugh than cry.
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My problem when watching anything is imagining where the camera is.

That kind of spoils it for me.

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Better start attending the legitimate theatre instead, Campy
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Dec 17 2013, 02:53 AM
Did you notice, in the first episode, that one of the patients was the next door neighbour to Dick Van Dyke in the original D.V.D show. She was Millie, married to the dentist friend of Rob's. Jerry.

As to making me sad - I guess John and I have physician's humour - rather laugh than cry.
I am not big on Dick Van Dyke, rarely watched, so I cannot say, but the woman who is giving her husband/boyfriend (Harry Dean Stanton) blow jobs is driving me NUTS. She is famous...I know the face from decades ago. But the credits ring no bells.
I might be wrong...but I will not rest 'til I get it solved.


Sad:
I just saw a show Sunday at a small theater...woman had a stroke, dropping a flower and not remembering what it was called, and we entered her brain for an hour sharing her trying to come to grips with what was happpening to her.
I left a bit confused...they started talking in a Icelandic dialect, but VERY shaken, especially with angiograph and tomography slides of what was going on physically. Swirling chaos with a man who may have been husband, lover, grandfather.
Acting was superb...the two people tore themselves apart/

A super insight from the author: if you sit at a table and imagine you are playing the piano even for a few moments, you will PHYSICALLY transform the connections of your brain. This is boggling and of course it must be true. Every memory PHYSICALLY distorts the structure of your brain with new connections. Almost incomprehensible.
Play was called STRUCK.

I need something silly and camp for a while...pies in the face will be fine. I think we have some Laurel and Hardy on DVR. 038
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Play sounds intense. Fascinating. I guess this was a small theatre or is NY so sophisticated that such a thing would play in a major theatre. You make me envious.
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