How real do you think filmic autopsies are?
Seems to me that none of out here in viewerdom is qualified to judge. I mean, what are the criteria?
OTOH, it’s a pretty bet that Dr. Joye Carter, with over 30 years of experience in the field, knows the standards. Let’s see what she has to say.
Current cultural revolution got you down? Not getting what everyone younger than, oh, 40ish, is bitching about this time around?
Despair about what appears to be the destruction of a perfectly fine civilization is par for the course for people of a certain age. I know this because I’ve experienced it myself, from just about every angle. But I’m here to tell you, my friends, that understanding is just a click away. On Netflix, believe it or not.
THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.
Cord Cutters News gives us the latest on the cord cutting front. This time around:Spectrum Returns to Roku, Comcast and ViacomCBS Team Up, and More!
Cord Cutters Video Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tUZA7GiIZPaUu4FQXnFYA
I loved the first season of Ted Lasso. It was just what I needed to survive pandemic depression. More than survive – watching the show enabled me to fully embrace what I thought of as THE POWER OF THE HAPPY ENDING.
Season 2, however, is a disappointment. Same powerful outlook, but with a far less powerful result because something I couldn’t put my finger on was missing.
The season is about halfway over now, and that mysterious key element is still in hiding, but my half-assed “WTF am I not getting?” feeling has finally gone away thanks to a force I’d never have imagined would do the job.