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[shadowkat]

1. Texted my brother today, we're at least in agreement on most television shows. We both loved The Bear to little bitty pieces, and agree with The Atlantic Review which states as it's heading, Thank God for The Bear, this is the television show we all needed. "I can forgive The Bear almost anything, because it’s one of the few shows on television now still willing to wrangle with the mess of being human—with what it means to try to live differently."

The Bear was renewed for a fifth season. Yay.

I'm admittedly in the minority? (not on the Bear, it's very popular). As apparently is my brother. Perhaps we're related after all? Neither of us could get into or liked Severance (which is insanely popular with thirty and twenty-somethings), we're on the fence with Murderbot, and so-so on Foundation, it's pretty overwrought, although very pretty overall.

He asked about the Buffy Reboot, and I regaled him with my knowledge on it - then realized, damn, I'm like a frigging info-dump on some things, aren't I? Hope it's not too annoying?

2. Crazy Org is being amusingly and charmingly passive aggressive towards our current political situation, and in some ways aggressive when it needs to be. (It took the DOJ to court and won.) As I told my brother, say what you will about Crazy Org - it's a tough old agency, and much like the city it resides in - it can stand up in a fight, and mostly win.

This was how it ended an email regarding the upcoming fourth of July holiday:

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), The Declaration of Independence

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

I tried to get into The Bear, and we found it hard going. Maybe it's a cultural thing, and it resonates more with you than it did with us Brits. I'll have to have another look at it.

[shadowkat]

It depends on what you like and are in the mood for? The Bear is hyper-realism and character centric. It's main plot is to keep a restaurant going, and focuses mainly on the emotional arcs of the characters. It's kind of like reading a series of slice of life character stories and tied up in one series?

It's not plot driven, but character driven. And if you prefer plot over character? It most likely won't appeal. And it's main focus is relationship drama and the messiness of being human, not solving a puzzle or a case, or fixing a problem. Running the restaurant is the problem or focal point, but it's more about each of the people involved in the restaurant, then it is about the restaurant itself?

And that doesn't work for everyone.