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My first choice of strange TV shows is Carnival Row which played the most recent episode eight. This kind of immediate weirdness includes Evil. The latter set in England only becomes super weird by the final episode 13 of the first season and the Dutch original mother acting the English one. I would never have gathered unless I read her biography. The little stars in Evil are acted by the small to teenage girls. The Year of the Rabbit is similar to some extent with Carnival Row without the few that still fly with natural butterfly wings. The Dark Material is also cast close to Carnival Row. Rather less is The Witcher, disappointing. Now with The I Land, a good and poor set of seven episodes in Netflix which reminds me of Lost at the start but incredible by the last three episodes. More curious and straight forward science works beginning with The Manifest based on the crew and passenger experience of just a few hours before landing and learn that they have been quite a few years in passing. The Jett series is also quite amusing but nowhere near either Carnival Row and The Year of the Rabbit. Emergence appeals to some, less to me. A bit awkward is the second series of The New Pope after The Young Pope where the younger Pope is still in a coma. Mandalorian is rather a boring science fiction linked to Star Trek. Two seasons ago sparked increasing nudity under the title Vida. This was probably too strong a few years ago among the Mexican crowd in Los Angeles. Right now six episodes of The Party of Five is alluring because the adult Mexicans have been set up for deportation by border patrol thus separating the older kids but the smaller children remind me of the cute kids of Evil.

I must admit that the 1986 cinema version pf the Name pf the Rose was, perhaps, more entertaining than this new more authentic Italian TV (RAI) version. The young girl and two other heretical victims are burnt at the stake and as Slater and Connery ride off into the e blue the sites of the stakes are still issuing black smoke. I have recorded and seen al 8 episodes of the 2019 version. In Il Nome della Rosa the stake burning is retold at a rather earlier time in which one of the two young girls' mother is actually shown bound at the burning stake. Both versions in 1986 and 2019 do give a sense of the middle ages. Both versions have an international cast, with an Italian base cast, and thus the latest version feature sthe dialogue by successfully dubbed language, in the case shown but for a few sub-titles is aired in English. The Abbot in the 2019 version is portrayed by Michael Emerson, the same rather voice trembling talented actor who featured a lot in the series Lost is now finally seen as the abbot locked into a labyrinth condemned to a nasty slow death. In the 1986 version this does not happen. I have not read the book - which I'm told is very long and probably quite boring. The Rossa in the 1986 version perishes in flames but in the 2019 version she is let go. In place of the three burning stakes the whole castle like monastery burns to the ground killing many including horses on fire. The end is very similar in both versions except that Slater does not lead an ass burdened by what scripts the boy Adso in the modern version has managed to salvage, In the 1986 version kitchen waste is thrown over a cliff for the local peasants to collect.