Welp, I saw the first episode of the new series out of Shonda Rhimes’ ever-expanding corner of ABC aka Shondaland the other night. It’s called Still Star-Crossed and is a kind of sequel to a little play called Romeo and Juliet that all of us have pretty much been forced to read at some time or other in our lives.
Short Version of My Reaction:
Every once in a while I need to smack myself upside the head. (I’m pretty sure other people think I should do this more often than I do, but bear with me.)
This morning I was about to do the laundry (I do the laundry in my house because I’m a Woke Husband; the fact I’m also hopelessly OCD about how the laundry should be done has nothing to do with it) when I discovered that our housekeeper had left some rags in the washing machine several days earlier without telling me, and now they smelled of mildew. I was annoyed and started to complain about it to my miraculously tolerant wife Laura when I paused and mentally smacked myself upside the head.
(This article contains spoilers!)
Season 4 was redemption for House of Cards. But the thing I loved most was the rise in importance of Frank’s wife Claire. Season 4 laid the groundwork for Claire’s rise and season 5 completed it. It just took until the fifth episode for you to firmly realize it.
Once again starting slow, Cards took its sweet ass time getting to the point. Season 4 left off with Frank wanting to declare war on ICO after an affiliated terrorist cut off a US citizen’s head on live TV. He thought this was his ticket to winning reelection over the Republican golden boy Will Conway, played by Joel Kinnaman. It took Frank an eternity to realize the American public didn’t exactly adore him, but they sure loved his wife, which is why he begrudgingly put her on his ticket as VP in an effort to get reelected.
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Stephen King tells us “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
That view from a novelist.
’m a dyed in the wool pinko commie leftie and these Trump days are not great for me. So I find watching the various commentators like Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah and especially Stephen Colbert to be therapeutic.
Into this mix, I can usually add Bill Maher on his weekly HBO show, Real Time. Maher is very attack orientated and each week he winds up his hour with a rant on a given topic., Usually, I find him really funny and incisive but Maher does have his blind spots. He is anti-religion – Islam in particular. He thinks the majority of American voters to be morons and says so, which I find to be a broad generalization, counter-productive and not true.
His past two shows featured rants that gored a pair of my oxen. One was on space exploration, such as terraforming and colonizing Mars, and the other was a screed against super-hero movies.