I have to admit, am hooked on Britbox and the BBC.
Basically, all Americans are Anglophiles, whether they want to admit it or not. The British Empire did more damage to the world than I can count by the way they treated ‘inferiors’, which is basically anyone who wasn’t born in England to the right class of folks. Look at how hateful they’ve been to their closest kin, the Scots, Irish, and the American colonies – much less how they’ve treated others around the world. But we love them, still; we love the way they talk, figuring out what they mean when they say words we don’t use for common items, watching them drive on the wrong side of the road, and that there seems to be a pub just about every 3 feet that’s full of folks , day or night.
Southerners in particular love Australians, who they basically see as English Rednecks. Change Crocodile Dundee’s name to Bubba, and locate him in Louisiana, and voila!
You probably expect an older southern lady to be all wrapped up in the romantic period dramas, all Jane Austen-y, and such. But no. It’s their crime shows I’m mainly hooked on. They’re great!
Why?
- Nobody except their version of SWAT teams ever has a gun (more on that later). But the upshot of this is that gun battles aren’t used in their crime series as a substitute for a plot, like some American crime shows.
- Their actors/actresses look more like real people; not that they don’t have attractive ones, they do. But not as unreal-looking as some Americans. I mean, have you ever seen anyone that looked like Brad Pitt working in an oil change place, or a Jennifer Lopez-clone as a hotel maid? It’s refreshing. BTW, if you like a particular performer, chances are high that you will see them again. And again. There are just so many of them to go around, it seems like a Little Theater group in a large city at times.
What’s weird about them?
- If you live in a city with more than 5 people in it, chances are that if you go outside, you are on closed-circuit TV (CCTV). I’m not talking about security cameras that American businesses have, I’m talking about government CCTV, just about everywhere. Every time a crime is committed, it’s the first thing the police do – run for the CCTV footage; you get the feeling they’d never solve a crime without it. The biggest problems they run into solving cases is “Sorry, mum, there’s no CCTV in that small alley”. It’s weird to me.
- If there is someone involved in their investigation that might have once SEEN A GUN, out comes their version of SWAT! Danger, danger! Ok, that’s a little bit of an exaggeration, but not much! These extreme reactions seem odd to anyone raised in the rural South.
Gotta go, it’s time for me to watch my program. I mean “programme”.
