On our walks these days we often see discarded packaging for enormous TVs.
What to watch on TV is probably on most self isolators minds at the moment, when their minds aren’t on the virus.
Marmalade confessed that she has been watching the tv series Merlin.
I’m not sure what I think of it, she said.
My considered opinion is that it’s shite, but oddly addictive. Addictive may be too strong a word. Compulsive is possibly more accurate. A level of addiction that lies between that of a crystal meth user and someone with a hankering for chocolate. Quite like the inability to stop drinking until the sherry bottle is empty.
She’s also tried Robin Hood, and the Musketeers. There are, she admits, lots of attractive people in the Musketeers. I can’t say the same of my weekend tv compulsion. Tiger King. In Tiger King everyone is less than attractive, inside and out. It’s a real life story, but not any life that I’m familiar with. I kept googling it to check that this really is a true story. Each search says that yes, it is the case. It’s mind boggling and I found it at least as compulsive as a bottle of sherry. The main character is a gun toting, explosive loving, country music singing, gay, mullet haired, redneck, big cat breeder, with political aspirations, two husbands and a plan to murder an animal rights organiser. Amongst his crimes he also wears base ball caps backwards. It’s hard to believe. Watch it.
Anyhow back to Marmalade’s viewing habits, she finds the actor playing Robin Hood to be a bit skinny. She’d like more substance to her leading, forest dwelling, freedom fighter. This raised the question, who would be a great Robin Hood?
We found this really hard to answer. We spent loads of texting time to come to these conclusions;
Robin Hood – A younger Christian Bale
Little John – Tormund from Game of Thrones
Sheriff of Nottingham – Jeremy Irons
Friar Tuck – me
Maid Marion – Marmalade
Merry men – the Crankies, French and Saunders, Lee Mack.
Once we’d settled on me as Tuck, decided that my costume would be accessorised with a big barrel of sherry, and Marmalade as Marion, who gets to snog Christian, we obviously lost interest.
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