Two weeks ago, not one but two people recommended a particular boxset to me.... I had been to see the fabulous British movie "
Pride", which if you haven't seen it yet you really should, I loved it! Anyway, a good friend - before I saw the film - recommended the series "
Stella"....a few days later I was chatting to my uncle about "Pride" & he also recommended "
Stella".
Centred around an ordinary working class family & set in the Welsh valleys, it is a brilliantly written comedy...laugh out loud funny but also full of so many moving family moments....very relatable, very watchable.
With only 10 episodes in a season, I have already watched a season & a half, just over this weekend.
For one reason & another, I haven't watched much TV over the past year..... my evenings just seem to have been full of other stuff, blogging, house stuff, magazine browsing plus another thing about having a teenager is the time they seem to go to bed =
much later!
I totally lost myself in the "Stella" boxsets this weekend & it was wonderful, I had forgotten how great a really really
really good TV series is. It's been a while.
The power of television. Just like reading a great book & then wanting to discuss it at a book group or with a friend, I love that thing of watching something & just having to share with someone. I guess it's that "water cooler" thing, some TV shows just have to be discussed, argued about or oohed & aahed over.
It's that "me too" thing x a million & more, particularly when it comes to a season finale. I can remember working as a temp in an office where no one really took much notice of me....and bonding with a co-worker over a TV series - it might have been "
Will & Grace" I think. I was only there a few weeks but that initial conversation broke the ice & made my days that much easier.
I can also remember warming to a friend's new boyfriend (who no one thought that much of initially) over a TV show & seeing a totally different side of him as we discussed the most recent episode. Can you judge someone by the TV they watch? Absolutely!