I watched The Central Park Five (2012), a documentary about the Central Park jogger case from 1989. I actually watched it on the PBS History channel on Samsung TV Plus, of all places. I just decided to flick through to see if anything interesting was on and when I saw that was starting I thought it might be a good time to sit down and learn about the case. It was my favourite type of documentary, where there is no narrator or visible journalist so you just get witness testimonies, music and archival footage and it really sucks you into that moment in time.
I also watched a bit of Terminator 2, also on Samsung TV Plus. I’ve seen it before and I wasn’t really in the mood to sit through the entire thing but the first 30 - 40 minutes or so were as fun as I remembered. I don’t know why, but sometimes watching a film “live” on TV, even in lower quality and ad breaks, is more enjoyable to me. I guess it’s because when I was a kid watching films on commercial TV was actually a big thing. It’s hard to describe but I’ve always loved the feeling of knowing there is someone else out there watching it at the same time as me, maybe getting up at the same time to make a cup of tea or get some snacks during an ad break.
I watched The Central Park Five (2012), a documentary about the Central Park jogger case from 1989. I actually watched it on the PBS History channel on Samsung TV Plus, of all places. I just decided to flick through to see if anything interesting was on and when I saw that was starting I thought it might be a good time to sit down and learn about the case. It was my favourite type of documentary, where there is no narrator or visible journalist so you just get witness testimonies, music and archival footage and it really sucks you into that moment in time.
I also watched a bit of Terminator 2, also on Samsung TV Plus. I’ve seen it before and I wasn’t really in the mood to sit through the entire thing but the first 30 - 40 minutes or so were as fun as I remembered. I don’t know why, but sometimes watching a film “live” on TV, even in lower quality and ad breaks, is more enjoyable to me. I guess it’s because when I was a kid watching films on commercial TV was actually a big thing. It’s hard to describe but I’ve always loved the feeling of knowing there is someone else out there watching it at the same time as me, maybe getting up at the same time to make a cup of tea or get some snacks during an ad break.