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Detectorists

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I love, love, love the TV show Detectorists. This has been my comfort show over and over through tumultuous times. I feel calm and connected to something when I watch it. I would love to be Andy and Lance's friend in a field routinely pacing up and down in the countryside. I love how it shows a gentle side of life where people jibe with each other but ultimately accept each other's eccentricities. I love the scenes where history comes to life. It really is a harbour in a storm for me, and I'm very grateful for it. I also have this feeling when I watch Jam and Jerusalem. I think these shows have a model for how I could be in society - small communities that tolerate quirks. It's a real antidote to the utter twaddle that mainstream society promotes. 

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  • Love this show too. It's so gentle, and the music and scenery are good for the soul. Lovely character dynamics. And being grounded in a 'special interest' is likely to speak to the autistic soul more than any. 

    I love how there are no real villains, and nobody is beyond redemption or making low-key, understated amends. The way they ended the third series with an ep in which even Art and Paul call a truce and become friends with everyone really touched me.

    Which brings me to the one time the show's ever disappointed me: that last special revealing that those two went back to being adversarial and mercenary. That's just plot mechanics and seemed to betray the spirit of that first end to their arc. But,... other parts of that special were beautiful and transporting and moving in exactly the way thee series always was. I just have a thing about some characters getting turned back into 2d charicatures when we'd already moved past that into something more poignant. 

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  • Love this show too. It's so gentle, and the music and scenery are good for the soul. Lovely character dynamics. And being grounded in a 'special interest' is likely to speak to the autistic soul more than any. 

    I love how there are no real villains, and nobody is beyond redemption or making low-key, understated amends. The way they ended the third series with an ep in which even Art and Paul call a truce and become friends with everyone really touched me.

    Which brings me to the one time the show's ever disappointed me: that last special revealing that those two went back to being adversarial and mercenary. That's just plot mechanics and seemed to betray the spirit of that first end to their arc. But,... other parts of that special were beautiful and transporting and moving in exactly the way thee series always was. I just have a thing about some characters getting turned back into 2d charicatures when we'd already moved past that into something more poignant. 

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