After several frantic fast-paced movies, Sean and Cody settle down into a more measured drama, as well as catch a new release, set in the fields of Suffolk on the eve of World War II. In the 2021 Netflix original The Dig, widowed single mom Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) knows enough about medieval archaeology to be dangerous and she thinks she might have some loot from the Middle Ages buried in her backyard. When she hires Grumpy McGrumpface Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to do a little digging on the property she gets more than she bargained for when the treasure cache of an Anglo-Saxon king pops to the surface. Environmental issues include the discipline of archaeology and its relationship to environmental science, decay and preservation over centuries, the lands and rivers of 7th century England, the portrayal of academia in movies, and much more.
What happens when you bury a wooden ship in the soil of southeastern England for 1300 years? Whose helmet was buried at Sutton Hoo? Is archaeology an environmental science? Why are the “Dark Ages” not a thing anymore, and actually never were? Why were so many English widows holding séances to try to speak to their dead relatives in the 1920s and ‘30s? What do Edith Pretty and Mrs. Miniver have in common? Why would you turn down a knighthood from Winston Churchill? What day of the week did World War II start on, and why does it keep coming up in movies? All these questions are hidden under the branches in this very British episode of Green Screen.
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