Television and other stuff

1. 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.)
( spoilers )

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.
( spoilers for both Edge and Ladybird )

Eh, skip this and watch Nanette on Netflix instead.