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Originally Posted by Gillianren
Murder by Death
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I watched that on TV with my mother and sister several years ago.
My mom fell asleep 3/4 of the way through. (She can get to sleep
only when she wants to stay awake. Sound familiar?) Upon learning
that she missed the ending, she asked who dunnit. My sister and I
could only laugh and tell her we had no way of answering such a
question -- it just wasn't possible. I suspect that people who are
addicted to soap operas have a need to find out how things turn
out "in the end". Maybe they could just read the last page of all
those big novels they'd otherwise never get to.
This wasn't at all intended -- it's a moderately freaky coincidence --
but that reminded me that just a few weeks ago,
Doctor Zhivago
was on TV while I was at my parents' home, and I watched it with
them. I'd never seen it before. My mom fell asleep. Doctor Zhivago
is the only novel that I know she has read. I think she read it before
the movie was made. I had no idea that it was a soap opera.
Without the soap, of course. They used real snow. (Well, I'm not
sure about inside the country house, but outside, for sure.)
-- Jeff, in Minneapolis