Right so I just realized I didn’t hit publish on the one before this one so that’s nice. I totally forgot how to blog.
Years and Years. (2019)
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter I have been obnoxiously posting about this show. Holy shit this show. It’s a mini series on HBO (for North America distribution, it’s British) about a family in London dealing with the next 20 or so years. They touch on America, Donald Tr*mp’s second term in office, immigration, famine (there are no more bananas), the North Pole melting, banks collapsing, humans getting technology implants. Emma Thompson plays a Tr*mpian politician that rises to power. It’s like This Is Us meets Black Mirror and it is riveting and terrifying and I couldn’t look away it was so good. I did a hard binge of like the first 2 episodes and was worried I wouldn’t be able to sleep well or function the next day (this is why I had to stop Black Mirror) but then I had to catch up for the finale. It’s 6, one-hour episodes. It is heavy as shit but so, so good.
Watching
Big Little Lies – S2 (HBO)
Big Little Lies is over and it was wholly unsatisfied. Meryl is queen always but this was just a pointless season in the end.
Widows (2018)
It was on HBO as the movie of the week and it’s a very good movie. Some of the direction is a little too artsy but it didn’t make my nerves as bad as I thought it would. Either way, very good heist movie.
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
This picks up eight months after Avengers: Endgame and deals with the changed world. Peter thinks he can have a summer off from superhero work. Precious. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Mysterio and I will always love Jake. Always. There’s a whole article on Aunt May’s clothes on Vulture but mostly I just wanted to come home and watch Into The Spiderverse again. It’s so damn good.
Hobbs and Shaw (2019)
All the cable channels have been showing every Fast and Furious movie for like a month in promotion of Hobbs and Shaw. And because of this heavy hitting promotion, Addy demanded we go see Hobbs and Shaw. “I was born to see this movie,” she says. Fine. I got us FRIDAY NIGHT TICKETS and we went. I love ridiculous movies but I do not love bad movies. This means any giant animal movie, I will enjoy and Hobbs and Shaw is the people version of a giant animal movie. It almost ran into the Bad Boys 2 problem of being 30 minutes too long because they insisted on going to an island location but I’ll allow it (where I do not cut Bad Boys 2 any slack and it is terrible and that is a hill I will die on).
Addy very much enjoyed the movie.
We started The Boys on Amazon Prime and it’s a take on superheroes being corporate pawns and how civilians deal with it. 2 episodes in I really enjoy it but I’ll hold my full opinion till the end.
Four Weddings and a Funeral (TV show, not the movie) – (HULU)
Mindy Kaling is executive producing Four Weddings and Funeral as a show on HULU. It’s a diverse on purpose cast but not in a ridiculous way to where these people wouldn’t actually be friends. They even explain why four Americans would be living in London. Four episodes are up now and the rest will be released on Wednesdays and it’s light and romancey (in a 90s RomCom way) and I desperately need this after Years and Years. i’m really intaking A LOT of British TV right now but they know how to cut you off and don’t make things last forever.
Black Lady Sketch Comedy Show (HBO)
Robin Thede had a show on BET that mixed comedy and news and it was cancelled but she landed on HBO doing a sketch comedy show (with black ladies) produced by Issa Rae.
The first show aired Friday night and I am so very glad that this exists. I always always watched SNL and I loved In Living Color and MadTV, but I knew about quirky comedy from Kids in the Hall in the 90s when Comedy Central was born. And now I get to see that, but with black ladies I can identify with (this is what people mean when they say representation matters). Anyway, this comedy is not for everyone, and by that I do not mean that non-black people won’t get it. I mean sketch comedy is pieces of a whole. Some skits are LMAO funny and some are strange and some go on too long. It gives me lots of Key and Peele vibes. I’m going to continue to watch as long as it’s available. The guest stars are fantastic.
Podcasts
Why Is This Happening Pod with Chris Hayes has had some good episodes up lately. I mean they are all good and I am biased cause he’s original NewsBae but the podcast is informative and good.
The Clearing
Every once in a while I’ll do a murder podcast and this is about a lady who called into a police station because she thought her dad committed a murder in the 70s. Then people started to think that maybe her dad was responsible for a bunch of unsolved murders across the country. It’s interesting.
Reading.
I finished Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle and it’s a good listen dealing with her addiction, bulimia, and her desire to fix her marriage with her husband of ten years after he admitted to cheating. The thing is that I went into this book full well knowing she divorces the husband and is now married to soccer star Abby Wombach. This is not unfamiliar to the story of my favorite, Elizabeth Gilbert. Either way I took a few notes from the book and I enjoyed listening to Glennon but she’s not at the Brene Brown or Liz Gilbert level of advice giving white ladies.