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Annael
Elvenhome
Fri, 4:55pm
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What have you been watching?
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While we wait for the doors to Fiesta to open .. .
Top of my list is "Murderbot." I have some quibbles with how it's being done - Murderbot should be much more obviously a cyborg, for one - but the casting is spot-on and I'm enjoying it. My main criticism is that the episodes are way too short!
Watched "Sirens" on Netflix. I thought it was going to be another of those "oh look at the very rich people with their amazing houses and clothes and cars and see how unhappy they really are" and it was, but the introduction of two sisters who came out of poverty and an abusive/traumatic childhood added a meaningful layer. One sister is what I've heard called "service to self" oriented, while the other is "service to others," and they handle the situation they find themselves in accordingly. It got me musing on how just perhaps, whether someone is essentially "self" or "others" oriented can explain a whole lot about their beliefs and actions.
I'm also watching "Nine Perfect Strangers," where strangers are invited to a "healing retreat" that involves psychedelics but also a great deal of manipulation by the woman in charge, and her motives aren't entirely pure. I just edited a book about the use of psychedelics, particularly psilocybin, for helping folks with PTSD and other major trauma sequelae, which was pretty convincing. But of course a TV drama is going to make it much more - dramatic. Great casts in both seasons.
We saw "Materialists" in the theater. It was better than I expected, not a simple rom-com. I admit to a dislike of Dakota Johnson, mostly because I'm angry about the travesty that was her version of "Persuasion," one of my favorite books, but I have to give her props for her role in this one. The script was a bit glib and predictable but raised some good questions about how we value ourselves and others. Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans were great, of course, when are they not?
Also watched "KPop Demon Hunters." Good fun.
And you?
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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