{"id":20593,"date":"2025-04-02T19:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T23:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20593"},"modified":"2025-04-02T19:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T23:36:44","slug":"current-viewing-maelstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20593","title":{"rendered":"Current viewing: &#8216;Maelstrom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maelstrom PART 1 1985\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nca9ttcamLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is on Walker\u2019s TV<\/strong> as he writes this blog post, America asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The TV series above. It\u2019s been my habit for some time to turn to some old TV show or movie at this time of day, as a sort of white noise. Quite often it\u2019s been some old British crime TV series. I watched, for instance, several episodes of an ancient series called \u201cZ-Cars\u201d (pronounced, of course, \u201cZed cars\u201d), which in its earliest seasons featured a beardless Brian Blessed as a uniformed cop \u2013 one of his early acting jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I\u2019ve found this 1985 British miniseries set in Norway, entitled \u201cMaelstrom.\u201d It was broadcast in the US, on one of the cable networks, back in the late &#8217;80s, and I recorded it on VHS at the time because, after all, it was set in Norway, and it wasn\u2019t awful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It stars an English\/Swedish actress named Tussi Silberg as a British woman who discovers that a Norwegian millionaire she\u2019s never heard of has left her some property and a dried fish factory. Mystified, she flies over there, where she finds everyone welcoming, and nobody seems to begrudge her a share of the family\u2019s rather large fortune. But strange occurrences&#8230; occur, and behind it all there\u2019s the continued puzzle of what possible connection the old man might have had to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not bad. The acting\u2019s fair, except for some histrionics at the end. The psychology is pretty na\u00efve. And, of course, there\u2019s the beautiful Norwegian scenery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is on Walker\u2019s TV as he writes this blog post, America asks. The TV series above. It\u2019s been my habit for some time to turn to some old TV show or movie at this time of day, as a sort of white noise. Quite often it\u2019s been some old British crime TV series. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Current viewing: &#8216;Maelstrom&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[5513,2047,2747],"class_list":["post-20593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maelstrom","tag-norway","tag-television"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20595,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20593\/revisions\/20595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}