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Jcadden76 (64 KP) rated The Greatest Showman (2017) in Movies

Jun 10, 2018

The Music (4 more)

The sets

The costumes

The Cast

Hugh Jackman... duh

Not really historical, which is probably a good thing. (0 more)

Good music and a good story though it is not really Barnum...

Really enjoyed The Greatest Showman. Hugh Jackman is always entertaining and throws himself fully into every role. He has a great voice and he and Zac Efron were terrific on the screen together.

While the music was very good, I don't know that it jumps to the tops of my Spotify playlist but I will be listening through it another few times and I will probably like it more.

It is not the historic Barnum. That is a good thing. He was a horrible individual. That would be a different musical.

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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated Turn - Season 2 in TV

Aug 31, 2018

Turn - Season 2

2015 | Drama

8.0

(1 Ratings)

TV Season Rating

The small stories. (2 more)

interplay between people

time period

Historical Drama done right

What's great about watching history play out is feeling like you understand it better thru people and how they see and deal with it. This series does it right. Even if you don't like "Spy" movies, this is about the people and what choices they make or don't make, the things they do to further the history or follow the tide that pulls them. I also feel like it doesn't just focus on the big names we know like Washington, this focuses on the locals in a small section, but influences the greater part. I really enjoyed the first three seasons and I'm now working on the 4th.

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ClareR (6134 KP) rated A Christmas Carol in Books

Jan 5, 2019

This is a story that will never get old

The first time I read this, I only gave it 3.5/ 5, and I really don't know why! I think that reading it in the serialised, Pigeonhole platform really helped, to be honest. It gave me time to think about what I'd read, and the comments from fellow readers really helped me to understand those parts (historical, mainly) that I'd previously struggled with. It's a great story of a mans transformation and his realisation that he really isn't a nice person. To live as he does, is to live a lonely, unfulfilling life. The ghosts show him his potential, both in the past and in the future, and hold his present up to him to confront.