Netflix: Hannah Gadsby

Stand up comedy and so much more. Trigger warning for violence and sexual assault.

Season two of Goliath on Prime. It is very good.

The Handmaid's Tale......
 

It's been announced there is going to be another season (3) of this...:hangloose:

HANDMAID'S TALE. 'nuff said

Just started watching the 1st season of Glow.... A friend told me it was hilarious..... I'm holding skeptical at the moment....

Really??? Oh, I am addicted.

I think it was Hulu but I'm not sure...

We watched 8 pounds with Wil Smith. Great movie!!

Definitely on Hulu was Rick and Morty. My youngest insisted I try it and it was funny.

Lost in Space...although the new Dr Smith version is really kinda scary and hits a little toooooooo close to home atm.

But then sense8 was no less than amazing. Also Penny Dreadful (was sad to see that end)....and trying to get back into Sherlock Holmes and 13 reasons why

Hulu.......
 

Castle Rock...


A horror series based on the stories of Stephen King.

Sharp Objects - 2018 HBO TV mini-Series
 

MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING!!! TRIGGER WARNING!!!



Well, I watched the first episode of the tv mini-series, “Sharp Objects” (HBO), and I must say, I was completely entranced and glued to the screen. The actress, Amy Adams, who plays the reporter, Camille Preaker, “a troubled reporter who returns to her hometown to cover the murders of two young girls and confront her own formidable childhood demons”(1), is awesome. This is an atmosphere piece, known as a slow burner thriller, in the almost Faulkneresque way that only the south of the USA can tell a good story. It is beautifully filmed. It is based on a book by Gillian Flynn, who also wrote the famous “Gone Girl” (was #1 on New York Times best sellers list!) which was also adapted into a film. Curious that Amy Adams physically resembles the author Gillian Flynn!

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So, in a way, it is told entirely from a woman’s perspective, and as such, is entirely a feminist film - which really gets you into the mind and heart of a woman, and other women (and how these women shaped each other!!!) - “With its theme of female complicity—the damage women do to each other—Sharp Objects could hardly feel more timely.”(1).

Camille drinks heavily, smokes, etc. and is utterly so not getting her act together. There are all these flashbacks, memories of things she ran away from, and are now resurfacing in spades as she goes back to a small town called Wind Gap where she hailed from (complete with a really dysfunctional family, especially the mother!) to cover the story of a murder of a girl and starting off to search for another missing girl (remember, this is just the first episode). So, it is a murder mystery crime psychological drama - sort of! Just right up my alley.
(P.S. I have the mobi of “Sharp Objects”, so I know how it ends - grinz.)

(1) There is an interesting article in Vanity Fair about Gillian Flynn, about how she “Isn’t Going to Write the Kind of Women You Want":

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...women-you-want

Wherein Gillian says, “It’s about what happens to women when they have to swallow down their stories—and what happens to that rage. And it feels like a cautionary tale at this moment when women are finally telling their stories, but we still have a president who’s a pussy-grabber. Despite a lot of brave, strong women, it’s still a strong current in America.”
(my emphasis)

What I really like about this TV series, is that it clearly and realistically shows all of the tragic hypocrisy that many women make of their lives, all the while by pretending to be perfect - having perfectly meaningless verbal exchanges that are so superficial as to make you wanna throw up and gag. God knows how if one tries to speak truth to power to those women, how they try and censor you or even call you a bully, when that it is the last thing you are, but really it is they who are the bullies - because they will do and say any and everything to silence you. (I trust you understand that I can’t stand bullies and spot them really quick - the bully is the one who is always suggesting how you “should” be - perfect - and they always try to control ya, yikes - and no one can live like that, without getting physically sick. I never trust people who come across as having perfect relations with all those family people; yeah right - lala land!) I really get Gillian Flynn, as I too come from a not-so-perfect childhood; and, as soon as I could, I took off, and I have no regrets about that, none at all.

HULU
 

I love the Alieniest. Brilliant.

I watched the labyrinth with my niece and nephew

I don't think it was the Vanity Fair article but I read somewhere in an interview with Flynn that nobody wanted to publish Sharp Objects UNTIL after Gone Girl turned out to be such a good seller! She was told countless times by publishers that nobody was ready to read about "bad women" or something to that effect. This airs on HBO btw

I totally binge.watched the first 7 episodes of.the second season of Anne with an E.

Such an amazing show. I thought I would be a purist and not watch because the original was exceptional...but I like the different places this one visits.

Anne with an E
 

This is on my backlog list of things to watch (seasons 1 and 2). As a Canadian, of course, saw the original series many many years ago. You are so right, the original was truly exceptional. Never had visited PEI though, oh well... glad you mentioned it... :)

Netflix season 2 trailer:

Who Is America?
 

There is this new "comedy" show made by some guy called "Sacha Baron Cohen" who I had never really seen before on air, although I had seen his name bandied about. It's called "Who Is America?" and airs on Showtime. I was able to watch about the 1st 7 minutes of the 28 minute show, when I just couldn't take it anymore. I can't think of a word worse than disgust and, in some sense, the show exemplifies a kind of bizarre "perversity of humour" for me. It is very rare that I would have to stop watching a show (unless it was so boring as to be inane), as there are very few things that I might have a reaction to, but this show wins hands down. Baron himself plays characters who are the very worst of the worst of stereotypes, all the while having selected the most stereotypical of interviewees. I didn't find it funny, actually finding it to be inane and crass! And I don't know what on earth I could say apart from that. I don't even feel like posting a YouTube trailer for it.

I finished my Celia series last night. It was a cheesy but lovely story. It was bittersweet for me. Then I Wikipedia'd her for some reason and found that today is the 15th anniversary of her death. I remember seeing her in Chicago one year with Tito Puente at the jazz festival there

RIP Celia Cruz, you are missed and remembered fondly.