Putting my feet up at the weekend to survey the sundry offerings on Amazon Instant and I saw some serial killer nonsense (The Following) with Kevin Bacon (which in our house is always pronounced like Kevin Turvey) which I thought suitably festive (to be honest, serial killers are about as scary as zombies, though admittedly you're more likely to find a serial killer in your wardrobe). It's pretty much what you expect. Kevin looks Kevin-y (and you expect him to start advertising mobile phone networks), the bad guy is English (this trend continues and all an English person will need to do is sneak up behind an American and say hello and they'll shock and awe their stars and stripes underwear), they're been reading the playbook. That's all by-the-by, the weird thing is that we've both seen it before. With the first episode there was déjà vu. Ah, we think, probably watched it on an aeroplane. Now four episodes in we can remember the entire series. Everything other than where we saw it. It's odd, it came out in 2013, we don't have terrestrial TV or Sky (where it aired), it's not in my Amazon history, we don't have the DVDs. We don't even watch much TV, perhaps an hour in the evening. How did I misplace about fifteen hours of TV? Good job it's not a programme about aliens, that kind of missing time has to be reported.
