Welcome to the high and low podcast. This is your host, Bravo, Bravo, Docking Bravo,

and I'm going to tell you about some TV shows I've been watching. For this pod, we are focusing

on Poldark and then Andor. I am not done with Poldark. I have one and a half seasons to go,

but I am done with Andor, but I'm going to keep it light for Andor. I'm going to tell you about season one, because if you start it, you make it that far, then you already know season two is even better. There's no shortage of TV shows you could watch. There's all kinds. They're scripted. There's reality TV. Everybody has an app. Everybody wants to

charge you $5.00. And everybody wants to hook you into a show. So normally I resist them. Normally,

if I'm scrolling around and I see like, season five, how many episodes of this thing? I can't get into this.

You know, I just want to watch a movie. Just show me something for like 90 minutes and then

leave me alone. So when I get into a show, you know that it's worth watching. My level of

annoyance is already so high when I learn that something is going to be that long and take that

much effort to watch that if I stick with it, it's got to be decent. So as many of you know, because I've been

lamenting about this holiday season, it kicks off with Halloween and we don't get any piece until

January. That's the life of a parent. So to help get me through the manual labor required by

the Halloween season, I was scrolling on Netflix and I said, I need a show that has a lot of

seasons. You know, it's the opposite of what I'm normally looking for. I was hunting for something that was just going to drag on. And there's one show that I see all the time. Every time I open Netflix, it's like, Netflix thinks you would like, and I'm like, get out of here. How do you know what I would like? And it's a show called Pol Dark. I've seen it so many times,

and I was already annoyed because of the name. I'm like, Poldark? What kind of a name is that? That's a weird name to say. Why is this man brooding at me? Why is he staring at me like that? You think I want to spend my free time listening to some broody man with a weird name? But after years of seeing this, finally one day in late October, it was a

perfect storm. I needed something, some noise on in the background. So I finally read the little

description of the show. And it said something like historical drama, you know, takes place.

This guy comes home after the American Revolutionary War. He has to rebuild his life. Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, all right, fine. Throw it on. He lives or he dies. I don't know what happens with the show. We'll see. I love a period piece. You know, let's hope the cinematography and the scoring is soothing to my nerves as I'm doing this work. So it starts. And I like the cinematography. And I like the way that

it's shot. And it's interesting to see this man coming home after war. And everything he thought he was

going to have is not there for him anymore. This great legacy, this land and these minds that his

father left him and the Poldock name and-blah, nothing is panning out.

The mines aren't pulling up anything good.

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