Walked out to Tennessee Valley beach this morning, it was a cold, clear day and the waves were huge, crashing loudly on the beach. It’s always so invigorating to spend time at the ocean.
This afternoon I did some pet sitting for one of my sisters friends while my sister took her out to celebrate her 50th birthday. It was a very relaxing having Jersey, her sweet, cuddly kitty on my lap, and getting out for a walk around the neighborhood with her dog, Olive. We ended up walking a lot of hills and saw cool Halloween decorations in her neighborhood.
I have always loved PBS Masterpiece shows, especially Masterpiece Mystery which tends to have very unexpected twists and turns. I also love the fact that English shows have many more realistic looking characters – not everybody is thin and beautiful like most characters in American movies and TV shows. I started watching the latest Masterpiece Mystery, Magpie Murders, and I’m totally hooked. It’s very meta, a book about a murder mystery within a program where the author is murdered. The author of the book wrote in everyone he knew as characters, each with their own motive to murder the main character (who was a total jerk). The brilliant part about the TV adaptation of the book is that the same actor plays the character in the book and their corresponding “real life“ character, but separated by 50 years as the book is set in 1955 and the program is set in modern times. The way it all comes together is really cool. In one scene a character in 1955 goes downstairs to open the front door and when the shot cuts to the front door opening it’s his modern-day self opening the door in 2020! Even the opening graphics are very well done. I’m excited to watch the remaining four episodes.