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shadowkatRead a little today, but mainly watched television and layabout being utterly lazy. Dozed a lot of the morning, after waking up at 7:01 Am. I idiotically set my alarm for 5:45 AM, forgetting it was a Saturday. So I woke up about four or five times in the night.
Hence the lack of energy and the laying about.
After watching three episodes of Ted Lasso S2, (I watch for Rebecca, whom I adore. Also it's a kind feel-good sitcom, a rarity. But apparently it only has three seasons??) - I tried to watch an episode or two of Cheers on Hulu out of nostalgia, but much like Moonlighting - it does not hold up well. The sexism is kind of transparent now. And the jokes are kind of tired. The trope, which had been rather innovative at the time, is kind of overdone now. And the characters which felt fresh then, grate now. Unlike MASH, it's not a series I can re-watch. There are quite a few series I can't rewatch for various reasons. Many of which are excellent television shows - but I don't want to rewatch it.
Then moved on to Fargo S5 (I think the most recent season is Season 5 and I think it's the final season, not positive.) This is the season with Jon Hamm playing the bad guy, Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh in the protagonist roles. It's rather fun, and while the pacing isn't quite as good as the first two seasons, overall, it works quite well. And I found it to be enjoyable. It does have a heavy message regarding Domestic Violence, and its links to a toxic male culture, which isn't a bad thing. Domestic Violence continues to be a massive issue in our society, not helped by various fundamentalist religious sects and conservative politics which promote misogyny and violence towards women. Although I know that men can be victims of it as well, my second cousin was and may still be a victim of it. What I liked about Fargo, was the women had agency, weren't victims, and were tough. They saved themselves. And succeeded in the end. Fargo is kind of a satiric riff on the true crime genre, which is the other reason it entertains me. (I don't like the true crime genre.)
It took a while to finish it - I was four to five episodes behind.
Then I watched the last two episodes of True Detective: Night Country which is creepy. But fairly good. It's gotten mixed responses, but I tend to ignore media critics. Television is a subjective art after all.
And the media critics taste currently does not sync well with my own. They tend to love things - I find unwatchable. And vice versa.
True Detective apparently only has six episodes. I thought it had more. It doesn't. I've made it through five. The last one drops on Sunday. This is explains the tight structure. It's better paced.
Episode five managed to surprise me. I actually gasped. I didn't see that coming. I should have, but I didn't. The ground-work was certainly there for it.
Anyhow a lazy day that somehow got away from me. Hopefully will get more done tomorrow.
Days are kind of blurring together in my head.
Hence the lack of energy and the laying about.
After watching three episodes of Ted Lasso S2, (I watch for Rebecca, whom I adore. Also it's a kind feel-good sitcom, a rarity. But apparently it only has three seasons??) - I tried to watch an episode or two of Cheers on Hulu out of nostalgia, but much like Moonlighting - it does not hold up well. The sexism is kind of transparent now. And the jokes are kind of tired. The trope, which had been rather innovative at the time, is kind of overdone now. And the characters which felt fresh then, grate now. Unlike MASH, it's not a series I can re-watch. There are quite a few series I can't rewatch for various reasons. Many of which are excellent television shows - but I don't want to rewatch it.
Then moved on to Fargo S5 (I think the most recent season is Season 5 and I think it's the final season, not positive.) This is the season with Jon Hamm playing the bad guy, Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh in the protagonist roles. It's rather fun, and while the pacing isn't quite as good as the first two seasons, overall, it works quite well. And I found it to be enjoyable. It does have a heavy message regarding Domestic Violence, and its links to a toxic male culture, which isn't a bad thing. Domestic Violence continues to be a massive issue in our society, not helped by various fundamentalist religious sects and conservative politics which promote misogyny and violence towards women. Although I know that men can be victims of it as well, my second cousin was and may still be a victim of it. What I liked about Fargo, was the women had agency, weren't victims, and were tough. They saved themselves. And succeeded in the end. Fargo is kind of a satiric riff on the true crime genre, which is the other reason it entertains me. (I don't like the true crime genre.)
It took a while to finish it - I was four to five episodes behind.
Then I watched the last two episodes of True Detective: Night Country which is creepy. But fairly good. It's gotten mixed responses, but I tend to ignore media critics. Television is a subjective art after all.
And the media critics taste currently does not sync well with my own. They tend to love things - I find unwatchable. And vice versa.
True Detective apparently only has six episodes. I thought it had more. It doesn't. I've made it through five. The last one drops on Sunday. This is explains the tight structure. It's better paced.
Episode five managed to surprise me. I actually gasped. I didn't see that coming. I should have, but I didn't. The ground-work was certainly there for it.
Anyhow a lazy day that somehow got away from me. Hopefully will get more done tomorrow.
Days are kind of blurring together in my head.
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Date: 2024-02-11 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-02-11 11:23 pm (UTC)I watched the pilot on Saturday and cringed all the way through it. It's not a show I would have watched now - had it premiered. Although that's most likely true of roughly 80% of the series that premiered in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Date: 2024-02-11 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-02-11 11:20 pm (UTC)Moonlighting - I think I was in high school? Was it late 1980s?
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Date: 2024-02-13 01:07 am (UTC)