I've started reading postsecret again

[thewrongkindofpc]

Maybe my toxic trait is that a part of me thinks that the internet peaked when I was seventeen or so. But there's something that blows me away about the fact that people still send their secrets in to that address, analogue, written in their handwriting. I love it. The twee, early two-thousands vibe where there are, like, decals of bicycles everywhere and getting really into recycling was cool, there's a part of me that was formed by that that never decided that that thing was cringe.

Watch on YouTube

I'm watching this -- oh, because I have covid, right, forgot to share that part -- so I have covid, and I'm watching a '90s cop show starring Robert Carlyle, because I never got over Trainspotting. Also, the first episode's writing is credited to a Daniel Boyle, but wiki assures me he's not to be confused with Danny Boyle, so no Trainspotting connection there. Probably-predictably, the Ao3 tag is all full of Once Upon A Time stuff -- I'm v happy for Robert Carlyle that he got that gig, but it's not what I want to read. When looking for a clip to illustrate the show on youtube, though, I found a handful of vids for what appears to be the main canonical couple (the other character played by Shirley Henderson, who, of course, was also in Transpotting).

Anyway, it's lots of fun, and let's see if I can drag myself into the habit of posting here a little more often than just to post my yuletide letter. Anyone have any recs for other things to watch while I have covid? My taste in sick-movie fare is exclusively things I might have seen on PBS in 2003, if that's helpful.

edited to add: this is one of the less coherent things I've ever committed to the internet -- let's call it an illness-side-effect and let bygones be bygones, shall we? Ugh, I really do feel like hot garbage.

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[skygiants]

This is probably not something you would have seen on PBS in 2003, but talking about detective shows did remind me of the deeply weird buddy cop show "Comrade Detective" (2017) in which the meta-conceit is that the whole show was a Romanian buddy cop show from the 1980s with Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt doing a bad dub ... a slightly surreal experience but I don't think watching it ill would make it more surreal and might in fact improve it?

(Again I am sorry about the covid!)

[thewrongkindofpc]

oh my GOSH, that movie sounds AMAZING, and exactly my style of bizarre, I am adding it to my list IMMEDIATELY

[scribe]

Oh gosh I read so much postsecret back in the day, I had forgotten all about it! Dare I go back, or will I be sucked in...

I hope you feel better sooooon <3333

[thewrongkindofpc]

It's so gently fasctinating! I find myself checking to see if there's a new batch of secrets way more often than once a week. And thank you! I am still pretty wiped, but definitely feel on the mend!

[kiki_eng]

I had no idea Robert Carlyle was Hamish Macbeth, so thank you for that knowledge.

Rosemary & Thyme (British travelling lady gardeners! Solving crime! So many murders.) or Black Books (surrealist britcom set in a book store) might actually have both been on PBS in 2003. I recommend both, and hope you feel better soon.

[thewrongkindofpc]

You are very welcome! It is perhaps the most ...hinged(?) role I have ever seen him play? Which is funny because the conceit is generally that he's the constable of a village full of petty criminals, and he, too, is pretty much a petty criminal, and half his job is shielding the rest of the town from actual law enforcement, while the other half is gently therapizing the other criminals about WHY they're committing these crimes. I am enjoying it immensely.

And YES, Black Books is exactly my speed for sick-day viewing, you get what I'm saying! I've heard good things about Rosemary & Thyme, so perhaps it's time to try it out!

[kiki_eng]

That is an amazing description. That sounds delightful and I'm going to have to check that out. :)

[thewrongkindofpc]

oh hey PLEASE let me know if you do, I would love to chat about it!

[kiki_eng]

YES! I am very bad at watching things in a timely fashion, though, so, erm, it might be a while. Years. It might be years.
(Late reply is late, apologies.)