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1. FB is dangerous. They keep posting political stuff and I have to keep refraining from commenting.
(Suffice it to say, I hate the white male assholes who abuse women and get elected to office. In the immortal words of the Red Queen? Off with their penises (actually it was heads).]

2. Riverdale just keeps getting darker -- it's really trying to be Twin Peaks this season except without David Lynch's surreal wackiness. In which case, it will never get the diehard Twin Peaks nerds.

3. The Good Doctor...is another one of those feel good hospital series with no nurses in the cast.
Honestly, less focus on the frigging surgeons and more on the nurses. It's focused on a bunch of competitive surgeons, one who is autistic. Weirdly the autistic doctor is the most empathetic and caring of the team.

My suspension of disbelief took a nose dive. But it's a medical show, so I can handwave a lot of it.
Does remind me why I dislike hospitals and the medical profession.

4. The Resident has grown on me. I like it better than The Good Doctor. More realistic. Also it has nurses in the cast. Male and female nurses. Who actually are responsible. The hospital also looks like hospitals that I've been in, with cots all over the place. And chaos. Also asshole doctors.

It also reminds me of why I dislike the medical profession and in particular doctors who make too much money for their own good. I've discovered since moving to NYC that the more money and better the doctor's facility the worse their treatment and care. In short -- if your doctor has a state of the art facility and makes over 450,000 per year -- run don't walk to the nearest exit.

There's a reason insurance and medical malpractice is so high.

It is however, due to the above, not as light and user-friendly as Greys and Good Doctor. Much darker series. More painful to watch at times.

5. This is US is getting a bit too smulchy for its own good. Tone it down a bit. Maybe now that we've gotten past Jack's death, it will? I didn't cry. I knew Jack was going to die. I didn't know how exactly, but managed to guess. Found it painful to watch, but also contrived. So, no tears.

Their better episodes don't deal with Jack and Rebecca, but focus on the three kids -- who are amazing.

6. Still raining. Frigging tired of the rain. Tried to do my nails, failed miserably. Gave up and pulled off the nail polish.

Made cookies instead.

Yeah, I know.

I blame the menopause. And the rain.

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Haven't done much this weekend, wrote, cleaned, watched television, bought groceries, cooked, and surfed the net.

In a bit of a book slump. The second book in the Highlander Time Travel series that I'm reading, about Highland fairies with the gift of shifting unwary heroines through time, is better than the first one and focuses on a bit of history that I rarely see in novels. We're in the 14th century with Robert the Bruce attempting to keep Scotland from those pesky English. (The English do not come off well in historical romance novels for some reason. I'm not sure why this is. Do the American writers just not like the English for some reason? Or is it all that nasty history? We have our own nasty history, so we can hardly judge. And some of it sort of jumps over into nasty English history. Let's face it human history isn't very nice, sort of violent and with a lot of slavery, torture, war and rape, actually. If I was an objective alien, I'd consider letting us destroy ourselves and mosey elsewhere.)

Thought about movies that seem to have disappeared but remember fondly from the 1990s and 1980s. This was after watching Moonstruck on Amazon Prime. I'd seen it, but forgot the plot. The only part of it I remember is Cher walking back from a lovely night with Nick Cage, kicking a tin can. It's shorter than I remember and focuses more on Cher's aging parents and relatives than Cher. Also everyone in it but Cher and Nick Cage are dead now. It was filmed in 1986.

Anyhow...movies I miss and would like to see again, because I loved them, even though they were hardly critically acclaimed:

* Ladyhawk - Mathew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfieffer. {Rutger Hauer is another one of those actors that I kept following around, much to my own chagrin. (headdesk). Just because I follow them around doesn't necessarily make them great actors or their roles great. My taste is...mixed. I own this.)

* The Long Kiss Goodnight -- Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, David Morrison, Brian Cox, and Craig Bierko. (I was following Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson and Craig Bierko around for a bit as a well.)
I love this movie. I don't know why. The critics hated it. Silly critics. I saw it twice in the movie theater for about $5. And six times on television. It has a badass female spy who lost her memory,
and she hires Sam Jackson to help her get it back. Much chaos ensues.

* The Last of the Mohicans -- (don't read the book or see prior movies) Stars Daniel Day Lewis, and his best movie in my opinion.

* Nobody's Fool -- Paul Newman and Bruce Willis, and various others, about an old guy in s small town. It's funny.

* Pretty in Pink -- Molly Ringwald, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy, Annie Potts, the guy from Two and a Half Men (no not Charlie Sheen and Anston Kuchner, the other one).

* Say Anything -- John Cuzack. I loved the John Cuzack movies. My favorite is Gross Point Blank.

* Top Gun -- Kelly McGillis, Tom Cruise, Tom Skerrit, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards...bad movie, fun music video.

Ahh...the 80s and the 90s...they had fun romantic movies back then. Less heavy on the satire and crue humor.