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sasha_featherI am congested and breathing badly, which is tough, but on the other hand, my ear isn't hurting any more. My hands and feet have felt better than they have in a while, and I'm tying faster and more accurately. Cross fingers, I haven't had a migraine in a while.
Big snowstorm here today, and it finally feels like winter. Snow absorbs sound and makes the whole world seem hushed and peaceful. It sparkles and reflects the street lights diffusely, so the night is brighter, and that matters, because it's usually night, in January in the North. Abbie seems to find the snow fascinating.
To help make myself rest during this spell of bad breathing, I've been trying out some shows. I want to use my Amazon free trial but there honestly isn't a lot on there that is very interesting.
I watched "Going Postal," based on Terry Pratchett. This was a cute idea: a con man gets his life spared in return for starting up the defunct, possibly cursed, post office. The villain of the piece runs the "Clacks", which is like a telegraph service that uses lights; the boss of the clacks wants it to be the only message service available. At about 3 hours, this was too long for what amounted to a fairly simple story. It was mostly about white men. I did enjoy the sets, costumes, and humor. I was not particularly interested in the romance.
I bounced off of "Fleabag," a show that gotten a lot of awards. The title character is a young woman who has recently lost her best friend and business partner. She's making bad decisions in her grief, including sleeping with a bunch of different men. The first two episodes are a lot about these men she's sleeping with, which, yawn. The humor relies on awkardness. I was not in the right mood for this show.
Another award-winner, the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, is more enjoyable to me. Midge Maisel is a 1950s house wife and mother in New York. She's fairly well-off and seems to have a pretty good life, but then her husband leaves her. On a whim she tries stand-up comedy (something her husband wanted to do), and has a natural talent for it. I enjoy Midge herself, but I especially like her manager, a butch woman named Susie. We also get to see Midge's relationship with her parents, and a variety of friends. She wears fabulous clothes, and the music is fun, and their fancy apartment is fun to look at. My main criticism is that there is too much narrative time spent showing us Joel, the no-good husband. I love how stand-up comedy is, for Midge, a chance to tell the honest truth, and to be her full self.
Big snowstorm here today, and it finally feels like winter. Snow absorbs sound and makes the whole world seem hushed and peaceful. It sparkles and reflects the street lights diffusely, so the night is brighter, and that matters, because it's usually night, in January in the North. Abbie seems to find the snow fascinating.
To help make myself rest during this spell of bad breathing, I've been trying out some shows. I want to use my Amazon free trial but there honestly isn't a lot on there that is very interesting.
I watched "Going Postal," based on Terry Pratchett. This was a cute idea: a con man gets his life spared in return for starting up the defunct, possibly cursed, post office. The villain of the piece runs the "Clacks", which is like a telegraph service that uses lights; the boss of the clacks wants it to be the only message service available. At about 3 hours, this was too long for what amounted to a fairly simple story. It was mostly about white men. I did enjoy the sets, costumes, and humor. I was not particularly interested in the romance.
I bounced off of "Fleabag," a show that gotten a lot of awards. The title character is a young woman who has recently lost her best friend and business partner. She's making bad decisions in her grief, including sleeping with a bunch of different men. The first two episodes are a lot about these men she's sleeping with, which, yawn. The humor relies on awkardness. I was not in the right mood for this show.
Another award-winner, the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, is more enjoyable to me. Midge Maisel is a 1950s house wife and mother in New York. She's fairly well-off and seems to have a pretty good life, but then her husband leaves her. On a whim she tries stand-up comedy (something her husband wanted to do), and has a natural talent for it. I enjoy Midge herself, but I especially like her manager, a butch woman named Susie. We also get to see Midge's relationship with her parents, and a variety of friends. She wears fabulous clothes, and the music is fun, and their fancy apartment is fun to look at. My main criticism is that there is too much narrative time spent showing us Joel, the no-good husband. I love how stand-up comedy is, for Midge, a chance to tell the honest truth, and to be her full self.
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Date: 2020-01-18 12:48 pm (UTC)We watched the first season of Mrs. Maisel and felt similarly – fun show, but needs more Susie and less Joel. I've heard from others that this pattern continues through the later seasons and I haven't been especially interested in continuing.
Our favorite show that we've watched on Amazon was probably The Americans but I don't know if you'd like it as much.
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Date: 2020-01-18 06:52 pm (UTC)