I wouldn’t be too hard on yourself. There seems to be a pretty wide variety of Scottish accents.
Thanks. I’m getting old tho, and occasionally need to say “what?”. Hence the DVD, which has a “huh” button.
BTW; I didn’t realize that House, on House, is British.
Anyone who hasn’t seen Hugh Laurie’s tour-de-force performances on Jeeves & Wooster and Blackadder should be banned from watching him in anything else.
He isn’t. Hugh Laurie’s English – House is American.
Then you haven’t seen The Wire. Or Breaking Bad. Or The Shield.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Sherlock just fine. But those shows are easily its equal, if not better.
Hoboy. <“shake head in wonder” smiley thatwe don’t have>
Or;
I see he fooled you too!
I think somebody already posted something like that.
Anyway;
I don’t have cable because of Bill O’Reilly. There’s your american tv for you. 
Him and his girlfriend, Sean Hannity.
Maybe it’s the commercials?
But I have seen The Shield once or twice. Lotsa violence. I have no problem with that. It just doesn’t interest me. Well, except for the Kill Bill movie. Is a two-parter one movie, or two?
No! Don’t say that! My only access to british tv is PBS, so I have a good excuse.
It’s very pronounced when he says the word “mystery”.
Netflix won’t deliver?
They will. But they want you to pay.
Cable companies, etc in the US are trying hard to get rid of over-the-air television.
I don’t want to encourage them.
If you can finagle up some excuse that justifies ordering *Blackadder *it will be very well worth it.
I’ve seen a couple episodes. Quite funny. I looked in itunes and there’s a lot. The show has been around for about a million years, and like Monty Python, would probably best viewed from a specific starting point. All I have so far is “I smell something fishy”. 
So, where should I begin my Black Adder adventure? I’d like to watch it on my iPad so’s I could annoy the servers in my favorite coffee shop/cafe.
Thanks
The first season has a different tone (and in part writers) from the subsequent three, and it’s not as good imo. I’d start with Blackadder II, and then go in order and watch the first after Blackadder Goes Forth.
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Libraries have DVDs now. I own Blackadder, but I saw Jeeves and Wooster by checking them out from the library.
Back to SHERLOCK, I was disappointed with Episode 3, “The Great Game.”
Regarding the painting, I thought it was ridiculous that anyone would think that an artist paints an exact night sky. The presence or absence of a star in a painting means nothing. … and yet the whole sub-plot hinged on that.
Regarding the “game” in general, it made no sense to me. Moriarty sets up the game to distract Sherlock from the Bruce-Partington information. Then, he doesn’t want that information? So, why set up the game at all? Moriarty’s success as a “criminal consultant” depends on his being out of the spotlight. All the “game” does is to put Moriarty IN the spotlight… and double-cross some of the people who had used his services in the past. If he hadn’t set up the game, Sherlock wouldn’t have known of Moriarty’s existence. The whole thing seems self-defeating.
Plus, I was annoyed at the ending being a cliff-hanger that we have to wait, what, for a year or more for resolution? It’s bad enough when regular series do that, and we have to wait for four or five months!
You know the old saying: Britons think 100 miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time.
What he said, exactly. Except skipping the first altogether wouldn’t be all that bad of an idea.
Even more ridiculous:
Watson and Holmes had seperately established (and shared with each other) that a) the dead guard knew nothing about art and b) the dead guard was a keen amateur astronomer. They find that the dead guard contacted a professor who’s rendez-vous of choice was a planetarium. Holmes is later found staring in great detail at the painting. But it needs a high-pressure countdown for him to realise that the guard spotted something about astronomy, not art, and that this might be related to the giant exploding star in the middle of the painting.
I mean, come on. How much more obvious can it get?