Accidentally Seeing TV

[moon_custafer]

 Sighting in the Wild: The man behind the counter at the place I sometimes get lunch usually has his eyes fixed on a large tv screen on the wall opposite. Yesterday it was showing something that looks like a drama, but then there was a scene of two women in a kitchen which was kind of shot like a cooking show, but with especially dramatic zoom shots closing in on the food. I wondered whether it was a drama, a really dramatic cooking show, or possibly a drama about the hostess of a cooking show. 

Following Google Search: It was Zindagi Ki Mahek (or possibly Mahak); the heroine is a chef. There is a great deal of betrayal, kidnapping, and wedding ceremonies interrupted by dramatic announcements.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zindagi_Ki_Mehek



Sighting in the Wild: A woman next to me on the subway was watching something on her phone; she had headphones but there were subtitles, and I got sucked into the scenes of a young Japanese man coming out of a fifteen-year coma and reconnecting with his childhood friends. Just as it turned out to be a murder mystery as well, she logged off and got up to go.

Following Google Search: OK, this turned out to be the new Netflix adaptation of Bokudake ga Inai Machi/Erased  (not the original manga, the anime, or the feature-film version from 2016) and it involves time-travel as well. Well, time rewinding/rewriting. http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/10/30-1/netflix-erased-live-action-drama-dated-for-japan-with-new-visual

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[sovay]

Accidentally Seeing TV

You get a way better class of accidental TV sightings than I do! Usually it's terrible American daytime soaps or news in doctor's offices, or it's sports in restaurants at night.

(There was that time rushthatspeaks and I were eating dinner at DooWee & Rice and watched most of Spy Kids with the sound off. That was great.)