Television and other stuff
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shadowkat1. Frustrated with medical doctors who I've seen five times now and still getting nowhere. Still have a congested chest, that I cough whenever I laugh, I still have IBS issues.
2. Nashville...
Eh, I think the problem with this series is they flipped it from the female lense to the male lense, the white male lense, which sorry isn't all that interesting. The stories have become cliche, and there's less emphasis on music.
I can see why it got cancelled. Still better than the reality series they are replacing it with, but then everything is. (I despise reality shows.)
Juliette returned just in time to see Avery hook up with someone else. This story does not work for me, both women are coming across as self-absorbed nitwits with poor put-upon Avery in the center.
Taylor, the woman he hooked up with, was playing him against Gunner, and managed to break up their band as a result. Gunner had fallen for her, when from her perspective they were just "hooking up" and having sex. Then she began to heavily flirt with Avery and come on to him, knowing full well that he had a daughter and that his wife was with a cult and could reappear at any time. Also that Avery had a co-dependent relationship with his wife. But no, she decides to go after him anyway.
Meanwhile I'm supposed to feel sorry for her, because the record promoter that she'd been warned about...is sexually harassing her, and if she doesn't play along, he takes away her chances. Yes, I know that's horrible -- but she knew going in that he was like that. She was warned. And she had a good gig with the guys, which she ruined by sleeping with two of them.
She's being written as an idiot. In this show women are written as either virgins or whores, sweet or connivers...it's annoying.
And Scarlett's storyline is beyond boring. Scarlette wants to help a vet with PTSD. She doesn't want to sleep with him. She wants him to get well enough to perform his music. He finally calls her on it -- and says she cares more about music than him or anything, and is pushing him to get on a stage when the only one who should be up there is her. (True. Scarlette just hates performing.)
Then we have Deacon and his reformed father who wants to get to know his family, and is nice, when Deacon remembers the man who abused him rather brutally. His daughters ignore this and bring in the kindly Grandad. And I'm thinking...REALLY?
I'm beginning to think the show should have ended last season. Told my mother not to bother watching it. Not sure why I am...oh the music, I like the music. Don't really care at this point what happenes to the characters.
3. Edge of Seventeen film review -- by James L. Brooks, starring Hailee Steinfeild, Kyra Sedgewick and Woody Harrelson.
It's okay. It got me to cry. Hard. And to laugh. And it's a lot better than the John Hughes Molly Ringwauld coming of age dramedy Sixteen Candels. But alas suffers from similar issues -- it's told via a male lense. Ladybird which is sort of similar and told through a female lense, is a far better movie. Skip this and watch that. Although I think I liked the character in this one better or at the very least identified with her more -- I didn't identify with the one in Ladybird at all.
But, I took issue with the fact that the young woman in this film is almost completely defined by the various men in her life. I hate to break this to you, fellas, but you aren't that important to most of us. We really don't think about you all the time. Not even thirty percent of the time. Although I'm willing to go with twenty-percent, after all you have the power, we don't.
Her mother is a schizoid wreck, constantly being talked down by her brother. Her best-friend falls into bed with her much older brother and becomes his girl-friend practically over night, and she doesn't share another scene with her girlfriend. This is her only girlfriend. The rest of the film is the female protagonist talking to Woody Harrelson who plays her History or English teacher, not sure which, and a Korean Boy who is into animation and film, and has the hots for her. But she has the hots for this guy who works for Petland, who is older than she is, but turns out to be a creep, so she slinks back home, apologizes for being a brat to her older brother who is "the adult" in the family and sleeping with her best friend, and goes to the Korean Boy's screening of his animated film. Which of course is about him being rejected multiple times by her, until he saves her, and once she sees him, completely rejects her in his film. She laughs, says that she totally gets it and they end up together. And I am thinking, WTF? This is such a male fantasy piece. What happened to the teenage girl coming of age story that I was promised? Huh? It was there...but you projected your own teen boy problems on to it.
This happens a lot with teenage girl coming of age dramas...we see them through a male lense. But the teen boy, he gets to have friends, his sister isn't dating his best friend, if he confides in a female teacher -- he's looking at her boobs, and I just don't know anymore.
Very disappointed. It was a potentially great film, good actors, good dialogue, ruined by male ego. Brooks should have handed it to a female writer and director, overhauled it completely and killed the whole geeky film student story line.
Jump over to Lady Bird, where she dumps her best friend for boy that she has a massive crush on, has sex with him, he turns out to be a complete douche, and she goes back to her best friend (girlfriend) and at the very end of the movie makes piece with her Mom. In that film, the core defining relationships are with other women, not men. And all the men aren't nice guys. Actually they are all assholes in Lady Bird. Her older brother's a jerk working at a video store, her father is kind and wise, but can't keep a job and a screw up, her Mother is hard-working trying to hold down a full time job as a nurse in a hospital, and the older teacher she talks to is a nun. The guy who she initially was into, and had come onto her, is actually gay. And the guy she has a crush on -- is a douche, but she goes all the way with anyhow.
Edge of Seventeen in marked contrast, father is kindly wise soul who dies when she's young, her Mom is a walking mess who has an office job somewhere and requires the brother to talk her down off the ledge, the brother is perfect in every way, she confides in a kindly, wise, married, totally together male teacher, and the geeky guy coming on to her, is beautiful, great chest, rich has, and great at drawing.
Ugh.
Eh, skip this and watch Nanette on Netflix instead.
2. Nashville...
Eh, I think the problem with this series is they flipped it from the female lense to the male lense, the white male lense, which sorry isn't all that interesting. The stories have become cliche, and there's less emphasis on music.
I can see why it got cancelled. Still better than the reality series they are replacing it with, but then everything is. (I despise reality shows.)
Juliette returned just in time to see Avery hook up with someone else. This story does not work for me, both women are coming across as self-absorbed nitwits with poor put-upon Avery in the center.
Taylor, the woman he hooked up with, was playing him against Gunner, and managed to break up their band as a result. Gunner had fallen for her, when from her perspective they were just "hooking up" and having sex. Then she began to heavily flirt with Avery and come on to him, knowing full well that he had a daughter and that his wife was with a cult and could reappear at any time. Also that Avery had a co-dependent relationship with his wife. But no, she decides to go after him anyway.
Meanwhile I'm supposed to feel sorry for her, because the record promoter that she'd been warned about...is sexually harassing her, and if she doesn't play along, he takes away her chances. Yes, I know that's horrible -- but she knew going in that he was like that. She was warned. And she had a good gig with the guys, which she ruined by sleeping with two of them.
She's being written as an idiot. In this show women are written as either virgins or whores, sweet or connivers...it's annoying.
And Scarlett's storyline is beyond boring. Scarlette wants to help a vet with PTSD. She doesn't want to sleep with him. She wants him to get well enough to perform his music. He finally calls her on it -- and says she cares more about music than him or anything, and is pushing him to get on a stage when the only one who should be up there is her. (True. Scarlette just hates performing.)
Then we have Deacon and his reformed father who wants to get to know his family, and is nice, when Deacon remembers the man who abused him rather brutally. His daughters ignore this and bring in the kindly Grandad. And I'm thinking...REALLY?
I'm beginning to think the show should have ended last season. Told my mother not to bother watching it. Not sure why I am...oh the music, I like the music. Don't really care at this point what happenes to the characters.
3. Edge of Seventeen film review -- by James L. Brooks, starring Hailee Steinfeild, Kyra Sedgewick and Woody Harrelson.
It's okay. It got me to cry. Hard. And to laugh. And it's a lot better than the John Hughes Molly Ringwauld coming of age dramedy Sixteen Candels. But alas suffers from similar issues -- it's told via a male lense. Ladybird which is sort of similar and told through a female lense, is a far better movie. Skip this and watch that. Although I think I liked the character in this one better or at the very least identified with her more -- I didn't identify with the one in Ladybird at all.
But, I took issue with the fact that the young woman in this film is almost completely defined by the various men in her life. I hate to break this to you, fellas, but you aren't that important to most of us. We really don't think about you all the time. Not even thirty percent of the time. Although I'm willing to go with twenty-percent, after all you have the power, we don't.
Her mother is a schizoid wreck, constantly being talked down by her brother. Her best-friend falls into bed with her much older brother and becomes his girl-friend practically over night, and she doesn't share another scene with her girlfriend. This is her only girlfriend. The rest of the film is the female protagonist talking to Woody Harrelson who plays her History or English teacher, not sure which, and a Korean Boy who is into animation and film, and has the hots for her. But she has the hots for this guy who works for Petland, who is older than she is, but turns out to be a creep, so she slinks back home, apologizes for being a brat to her older brother who is "the adult" in the family and sleeping with her best friend, and goes to the Korean Boy's screening of his animated film. Which of course is about him being rejected multiple times by her, until he saves her, and once she sees him, completely rejects her in his film. She laughs, says that she totally gets it and they end up together. And I am thinking, WTF? This is such a male fantasy piece. What happened to the teenage girl coming of age story that I was promised? Huh? It was there...but you projected your own teen boy problems on to it.
This happens a lot with teenage girl coming of age dramas...we see them through a male lense. But the teen boy, he gets to have friends, his sister isn't dating his best friend, if he confides in a female teacher -- he's looking at her boobs, and I just don't know anymore.
Very disappointed. It was a potentially great film, good actors, good dialogue, ruined by male ego. Brooks should have handed it to a female writer and director, overhauled it completely and killed the whole geeky film student story line.
Jump over to Lady Bird, where she dumps her best friend for boy that she has a massive crush on, has sex with him, he turns out to be a complete douche, and she goes back to her best friend (girlfriend) and at the very end of the movie makes piece with her Mom. In that film, the core defining relationships are with other women, not men. And all the men aren't nice guys. Actually they are all assholes in Lady Bird. Her older brother's a jerk working at a video store, her father is kind and wise, but can't keep a job and a screw up, her Mother is hard-working trying to hold down a full time job as a nurse in a hospital, and the older teacher she talks to is a nun. The guy who she initially was into, and had come onto her, is actually gay. And the guy she has a crush on -- is a douche, but she goes all the way with anyhow.
Edge of Seventeen in marked contrast, father is kindly wise soul who dies when she's young, her Mom is a walking mess who has an office job somewhere and requires the brother to talk her down off the ledge, the brother is perfect in every way, she confides in a kindly, wise, married, totally together male teacher, and the geeky guy coming on to her, is beautiful, great chest, rich has, and great at drawing.
Ugh.
Eh, skip this and watch Nanette on Netflix instead.
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Date: 2018-07-07 09:06 pm (UTC)Seeing both Doctors again in July.
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Date: 2018-07-07 07:02 pm (UTC)Juliette is in a cult? LOL. They're running out of storylines. I love the music, too. Maybe I'll dig out my season one dvds.
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Date: 2018-07-07 09:04 pm (UTC)Juliette is in a cult? LOL. They're running out of storylines. I love the music, too. Maybe I'll dig out my season one dvds.
Not anymore, she escaped and is now suing them for holding her captive and others captive against their will. LOL!
Yes, they've run out of story ideas..can see why it got cancelled.