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Post by beverley61 on Jan 25, 2021 12:11:58 GMT
I don't really get it. I mean I get it but she is rather ludicrous. Yes she is going through bereavement and has found out the house isn't hers and perhaps there's another son. Enough to be coping with but her conversations with the police and her all round rudeness to everyone would either have the GP visiting pronto or the police being much more inclined to interview her at the station. Where is the solicitor? Why hasn't her daughter or mother suggested she might need one?
The funeral was dire.
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Post by technicolour on Jan 25, 2021 13:55:59 GMT
I enjoyed the first episode which seemed poised to step up a notch when the son turned up. But no. This week was just silly. What a shame.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jan 25, 2021 14:24:32 GMT
Just had another look at the scene where Alice views Harry's body. It was definitely the hospital mortuary, which the nurse she spoke to called 'the morgue' – first of so many things wrong with that scene which I was starting to list but realised I was only letting off steam. Why do they get these things so wrong? On a different note, does anyone know if the house is a real house, and if so, where? Presumably the exterior is, but I'm wondering about the interior. Edit: found it! www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/inside-actual-smart-house-featured-19683995 |
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Post by bethb63 on Jan 25, 2021 16:35:30 GMT
It is a beautiful house. Too bad about the programme.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 25, 2021 17:21:00 GMT
I wouldn't trust a smart house. It's bad enough not be able to load a website. Can you imagine what would happen to your house when your wifi won't work?
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jan 25, 2021 17:29:40 GMT
I did think it was peculiar that the smart house still required Alice to answer the door in person at night with no video or outside light! Of course it was to make George look sinister and to make her think it was Harry as a ghost, or something, but pretty daft.
I know smart fridges are all the rage but can't you just look inside to know when you need to buy milk?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2021 17:39:07 GMT
We have everything in place that would allow us to create a smart house. What I will say is that everything that we would use--but are certainly not planning to do--would have to have a manual backup. There are some things that would be nice, but there are many things that are not really necessary, like switching off and on lights, boiling kettles, switching off and on heating before you get home, and so on. It would work exactly as shown in the programme, and convinced me that it was utterly stupid.
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Post by vicky on Jan 25, 2021 19:29:25 GMT
I have often wished I had voice-operated blinds or curtains when the sun is at a particular angle, shining in my eyes but keeps coming and going behind clouds. I am up and down to the window like a jack in the box then and it gets annoying!
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 25, 2021 21:11:56 GMT
I wouldn't mind being able to switch lights on before I went into a room but I'd probably get sick of saying lights on all the time.
A smart fridge that tells your computer to add milk to the shopping list might be OK but I presume that when unloading the shopping you need to upload which items you're putting in, especially stranger things like penicillin and you'd never be able to angle the milk over the butter in order to get a bottle of wine in.
And do you have to override it when you've got things on the wrong shelf endangering the lives of any who delve too deeply. Or does it keep beeping at you saying 'Item not recognise'!!!
And does your fridge weep when there's only butter, one tomato, a fraying half empty bag of lettuce, that pie you did plan to eat and an ounce of cheese in there.
Mine would be, not so much a smart fridge as a skint fridge two weeks a month.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 25, 2021 23:41:52 GMT
I can't stand technology telling me what to do and in what order. I'll decide when I need milk, thank you. It's bad enough when my laptop gets cheeky with me. I ain't standing for any lip from a fridge!
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Post by marion on Jan 26, 2021 11:59:44 GMT
I watched episode 2 yesterday and I shall stick with it but find it a bit flat. The comedy isn’t that funny and the drama isn’t that dramatic!
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Post by geometryman on Jan 26, 2021 15:52:19 GMT
I'm sticking with it too, even though it is pretty unrealistic and episode 2 seemed to take a bit of a different direction from episode 1.
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Post by linseed on Jan 26, 2021 20:56:14 GMT
I will carry on with it, but it is a little strange. A bereavement group meeting in the morgue?
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Post by vicky on Jan 27, 2021 10:34:54 GMT
I will carry on with it, but it is a little strange. A bereavement group meeting in the morgue? Quite! |
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Post by kabuki on Jan 27, 2021 17:32:36 GMT
I am enjoying this. Very quirky and funny
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Anymore to come?
