Copper on the BBC is coming to an end, sniff, sniff

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1865, New York, post Civil War, postaday2013, T.v

One of my favorite t.v shows is Copper on BBC America. Funny enough it is a show based on the New York of 1865 after the bitter Civil War. We see African-American free men, newly arrived Irish immigrants, already considered old money living side by side with new money, Tammany Hall politics and the role that police have in New York. We are witness to this world through the eyes of Detective Kevin Corcoran who is an Irish immigrant who fought in the Civil War as did many of the other characters and we are privy to the painful sacrifices those troops made for their country.

We also see the grand divide between money and the other denizens of the city, a vast gap in income inequality between Gramercy Park and Five Points, a slum neighborhood. We are also introduced to political and police corruption with Detective Kevin Corcoran and his colleagues fighting against it through whatever meager means possible.

I started watching it since its first episode last year August 2012 and I was excited when the BBC picked it up for a second season and now that next week is this season’s last episode, I am hoping that the BBC will do the right thing and pick it up for a third season, I am keeping my fingers crossed.

There are so many great stories to tell and the characters are well written, I especially like the friendships between Detective Kevin Corcoran and Detective Francis Maguire another Irish immigrant copper as well as Detective Kevin and his good friend Major Robert Morehouse from the wealthy side of New York. Detective Kevin also has important relationships with Doctor Matthew Freeman, an intelligent African-American physician and Eva Heissen who happens to be a successful madam in her own brothel, a very popular establishment in the Five Points section of New York.

If you have access to Netflicks, I highly recommend giving Copper Season one a look see because the acting is great, the writing gripping and the set designs pretty amazing. You get the sense of being in New York circa 1865.

I love my Copper.:)

Plinky’s prompt: Getting it right

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Groundhog Day, postaday2013, practise, writing

In the comedy “Groundhog Day” Bill Murray experienced the same day again and again, stuck in a time loop until he got the day “right.” What day would you choose to repeat until you got it right? Do you think it’s ever possible to get life “right”?

Let’s see, what day in my life did I get it “wrong”? The days where I got it all wrong by being late to pick up the kids or forgetting to get something for a party or a school project, breaking something that we really liked or letting my irritability get the better of me and not being the best person that I could be as a wife or a mother. There are quite a few, I don’t remember them well enough to relive them, I just know that they exist, no one is perfect.

Groundhog Day was such a great movie, my hubby and I loved it so very much. We used to talk about it after each time we saw it again, I think that we have seen the movie at least twenty times, our own tribute to Groundhog Day. We used to try to figure out exactly how many times Bill Murray relived that day, I think that we got to at least a year for the French and the piano besides the personality transformation, just being realistic with language acquiring abilities and musical aptitude. The writers were quite creative in the many ways that Bill Murray tried to buy the farm, kick the bucket or however you want to describe it. I had the song “I got you babe” in my head for a few days after the movie.

I did like the overarching message that the movie seeks to convey; you can despite, all odds, still learn something and your circumstance is only as bad as you let it be. I admit that the movie was a little heavy-handed in its messaging at times, precisely with the creative ways to ending Bill Murray’s life, but seeing him try to redeem himself over and over again and finally becoming a better person just because it is a nice thing to be, without any other agenda, that was beautiful.