After working all day on my apartment and paperwork, I decided to binge-watch the 4th season of Shetland as I prepped some magazines to donate. It's a murder mystery set in the Shetland Islands of Northern Scotland. The landscape is amazing and the acting top-notch. A couple of the mysteries in the first season were dumb, and I don't have access to 2 and 3 without paying Amazon for them, but this series looked pretty good, and was...until I got to what I thought was the end and found out it was only the 4th episode; there are two more...and they don't tell you that.
If I'd known, I'd have watched one of my DVDs instead. Shit. That really pisses me off because I now want to know what happened, but it seems only Amazon offers them on their video streaming service, for $1.99. I don't want to do business with that fucking company, and I'm adult enough to know it's just a work of fiction so I can walk away from the ending, but the way BritBox didn't bother to at least inform the viewer up front in practically insulting.
Hell, I could even have settled in and worked more on A Place Of Safety or Underground Guy and had as much fun (well, at least not been pissed off, like this). Makes me leery of the rest of their lineup. Do I have to check with IMDb every time I think I want to watch something on their channel, just to verify they've got everything? Why bother? Oh, well...another life lesson learned...that I've had to learn over and over and over -- check everything; trust nothing, completely.
I'm rearranging my apartment, in steps and stages. Getting rid of as much crap as I can. I've posted a few things on ebay for sale to see if they'll bring anything in, and have more to offer. I'm also giving away things I don't think are worth much. I won't part with gifts; that's rude. But I've already freed up 2 shelves worth of crap, giving a bit more space to spread out.
Part of what I'm getting rid of is my Alfred Hitchcock collection -- DVDs and books. He's the one who got me interested in film, which turned out to be a big mistake. Now that I'm done with it, after far too long, it's time he was removed. Other DVDs are going, as well. I have a lot that I've seen and don't want to see, again.
My main focus is elsewhere, now...
If I'd known, I'd have watched one of my DVDs instead. Shit. That really pisses me off because I now want to know what happened, but it seems only Amazon offers them on their video streaming service, for $1.99. I don't want to do business with that fucking company, and I'm adult enough to know it's just a work of fiction so I can walk away from the ending, but the way BritBox didn't bother to at least inform the viewer up front in practically insulting.
Hell, I could even have settled in and worked more on A Place Of Safety or Underground Guy and had as much fun (well, at least not been pissed off, like this). Makes me leery of the rest of their lineup. Do I have to check with IMDb every time I think I want to watch something on their channel, just to verify they've got everything? Why bother? Oh, well...another life lesson learned...that I've had to learn over and over and over -- check everything; trust nothing, completely.
I'm rearranging my apartment, in steps and stages. Getting rid of as much crap as I can. I've posted a few things on ebay for sale to see if they'll bring anything in, and have more to offer. I'm also giving away things I don't think are worth much. I won't part with gifts; that's rude. But I've already freed up 2 shelves worth of crap, giving a bit more space to spread out.
Part of what I'm getting rid of is my Alfred Hitchcock collection -- DVDs and books. He's the one who got me interested in film, which turned out to be a big mistake. Now that I'm done with it, after far too long, it's time he was removed. Other DVDs are going, as well. I have a lot that I've seen and don't want to see, again.
My main focus is elsewhere, now...
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