Pumpkins and sheep, I didn’t see that coming!
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It sounds like a paleo recipe for the “Sports (also activity trackers and bass playing)” thread 
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Yes it does! We have apparently gone completely off topic. It all started with True Detective and Swedish, correction: Danish Detective series, then languages, pumpkins and sheep, and even Ikea!
But since this is the Whatcha Watching TV Thread, I’m thinking of watching American Pie again. I’m watching How I Met Your Mother, and Alyson Hannigan is in it. She always reminds me of American Pie, she was adorable in those movies as a geeky band camp girl.
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“And this one time at band camp…”
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The punctuation on that is, “And this one time? At band camp?”
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This was the first, last and therefore only time I liked it when somebody made a statement that sounds like a question, but isn’t!
I watch a lot of CNN and I absolutely hate it when people do that in an interview. It’s either a question or it is not. Don’t make it sound like a question, if it isn’t.
Except when you’re Alyson Hannigan and you want to elaborate on this one time at band camp and … the flute
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Right?
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Well, here in the US? We have this thing? Called “uptalk”? Meaning a rising inflection at the end of a statement?
I guess we’ve gotten used to it, but YMMV.
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It really is a US thing, right? And something that spread like virus during the last few years? I remember times, where people spoke with confidence in interviews.
Is this cause people in fact doubt everything they say? Or they are looking for confirmation?
As soon as somebody does that on TV, I need to zap somewhere else. Like the good old BBC - where English is the way God intended
This will be the title of the first song I will write
Oh, like this:
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If you haven’t seen it yet, watch ‘The Fall’ with Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. That’s really good.
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I must have seen it, as I love everything where Gillian Anderson has a british accent!
But I can’t remember it, so: I will rewatch it.
Need to wait a little, as I took up @joergkutter 's suggestion to rewatch “Counterpart”.
J. K. Simmons is always great, but here he plays a double role, and he manages to play two different characters in a way that you forget he is the same actor. Magnificent!
EDIT While searching for “The Fall” I stumbled over “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Mike Flanagan. One of the best contemporary directors (except for “Doctor Sleep”)!
Great series, but not as good as “Midnight Mass”.
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Very impressive indeed. Especially also to see the slow transformation of the soft-spoken version. Must both be challenging and a real feast for an actor to play such a double role!
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Hey great, thanks, I’ve got a couple of suggestions now, some of them have been sitting on my watchlist for some time, like “The Fall of the House of Usher” and also “Midnight Mass”. @joergkutter 's suggestion “Counterpart” is not on my watchlist because of its setting in Germany. I thought, well, I see Germany every day when I go outside… so no need…
Generally, I tend more to watch series with a setting in another country, I like the British stuff and also there are very good Danish series which I like - even if they’re about topics I’m normally not so much interested in, example: "Rita.
PS: Was just looking up “Counterpart” and saw it’s parallel universe stuff, this has potential to compensate the Germany location.
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Hey, it’s a darker version of Berlin, like shortly before or after the “Mauerfall”.
It’ really nostalgic in a way. And at leat it’s not boring Hamburg
But watch “Midnight Mass” first, then “The Fall of the House of Usher”, I agree!
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Okay, I guess I’m going to watch “Midnight Mass” then. I’m currently holding out for something to watch which really catches me. Just watching “Russian Doll” which is kind of weird (in a positive way) but somehow also a little bit boring and not quite as catchy as expected. Well, that “Mauerfall” (and also “Cold War”) stuff is kinda tiring, guess I’ve heard too much of that in the last 35 years. But parallel universe… hm…
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I understand that sentiment… to a certain degree. More “exotic” locations and plots tend to make for better “escapes” from daily life. Which is what entertainment also should provide.
For one like me, who hasn’t lived in Germany for close to 30 years, it was very nostalgic to see an intriguing story taking place in Berlin. And, really, it’s not quite the Berlin you might know and remember. After all, it’s two Berlins and it’s interesting to slowly find out how they developed differently (and why).
Also, there are potentially a lot of interesting details that are only noticeable for a German. For instance, the cars in the two Berlins have (ever so slightly) different types of licence plates. I like how they paid attention to such details - it really separates a good from a brilliant series.
But, yes, some of these details might only be recognizable for a German (in this case). I have seen countless US movies or series with scenes that are supposed to be in, e.g., Berlin or somewhere else in Europe, and just by looking at the power outlets, light switches, markings on the road (just markings, no words) etc., you know it is somewhere in the US (and certainly not Europe).
Oh, and by the way, (slight spoiler alert): “Counterparts” is from 2018/2019 and one plot element is concerning a pandemic. Some of the details there are… simply mind-blowingly prophetic (as seen from post-Covid).
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The funniest for me was the (otherwise also mediocre) A-Team movie, showing the Kölner Dom with a caption: “Frankfurt”
I just read that they made even more mistakes:
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Yeah, I can - to a certain degree - accept “artistic freedom” or choices that make things clear(er) in an instant (instead of having to explain a lot). And so: Berlin and Frankfurt (and perhaps Munich and Hamburg) will always be higher on the “name a German city” list for many foreigners, than, e.g., Köln/Cologne.
But, you still want a famous landmark as well, which is not a Frankfurt skyscraper, but something with real Old World vibes. And there you are!
In most cases, it doesn’t really matter (for the plot). But, yes, for everyone who grew up knowing these landmarks in and out, it’s annoying, just as taking a shot of the Empire State Building and captioning it with “Los Angeles” would be annoying to US Americans.
(Well, I guess it’s OK to caption it with “Gotham City” 
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Yeah the banal little details like this are usually the giveaways.
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This is permitted yes 
“Gotham” has been a descriptive adjective for NYC since the 1800s. Batman didn’t make it up
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