I've been meaning to mention, and now I'm finally remembering to....
Another thing on my current watch-list is Schitt's Creek.
It's my second time watching it. I love that show SO much.
I watch it with our Alexa Echo, which we have near our sink. I watch, a little bit at a time, while I put dishes away, wash my water bottle, or feed the cats.
I alternate between Schitt's Creek and listening to various news reports on Alexa. And with the news, I alternate between the BBC (British) CBC (Canadian) and SBS (Australian).
And yes, I also get American news.
I read the Washington Post in the morning with Annie on my lap.
Anyway, back to Schitt's Creek. I'm currently on episode 7 of season 4. I'm surprised I've already gotten that far, because I watch only a little bit a day. Maybe a third or half an episode?
My plan, though, is to keep rewatching and rewatching until I'm fully vaccinated. OR...well, maybe when I'm fully vaccinated, I will stop going back to the beginning. I think it would be best if I get to the end of the series. Then I'll say good-bye. until the next pandemic comes along.
What else?
I'm really into Broadchurch now.
Tonight we'll be watching the first season finale.
I'm wondering how the first season will end and what will happen in the next two seasons. Will it take them three seasons to figure out the murderer? Or will they find the murderer this season, and the next two seasons will be about the court case and all that?
Oh! Maybe it will be a serial killer?
Oops. I just realized I gave Tim the wrong information about the shame woman from Game of Thrones. I told him she (Susan Brown) played the reporter in Broadchurch. But now I see she plays Grandma Liz.
Edited to add: 10/3/22- Rereading this post, and I'm feeling SHAME for my mistake. Susan Brown didn't play the shame woman on Game of Thrones. She played the Septa of Winterfell. I know this only, because we've seen watched Ted Lasso which stars the actual Shame-woman (Hannah Waddingham)
I was thinking, last night, of all the Broadchurch actors from various other shows/franchises.
From Game of Thrones, there's Brown, David Bradley, and Jacob Anderson.
From Harry Potter, there's David Tennant, David Bradley, and Alfred Enoch. Though I can't remember actually seeing Enoch in the show. I just remember seeing his face and name when looking at IMDb.
From the Crown, there's Olivia Coleman and Andrew Buchan.
From Doctor Who, there's David Tennant, Jodie Whittaker, David Bradley, and Arthur Darvill
I know I'm missing at least one person from somewhere. I remember looking at IMDb and seeing an actor in one of those shows, but I didn't remember their character.
It was either Harry Potter or Game of Thrones. Or...both.
Here we go. Carolyn Pickles- who is the woman I mistakingly thought was Shame-Woman on Game of Thrones-was in Harry Potter. She played Charity Burgage.
I don't know who that is.
Okay. Googled.
She was a professor that was kidnapped and murdered by Voldemort before the Deathly Hollows. I think I vaguely remember that.
Speaking of Harry Potter, after reading a few more chapters, I opted to return the Robert Galbraith book. In lieu of that, I'm now reading Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
It's good so far.
I recently read her other book Mexican Gothic and liked that a lot.
This morning, on YouTube, I watched a video from The Daily Show about the whole unity thing.
The whole thing makes me so angry.
It makes me wonder if Biden has had a lack of experience dealing with manipulative, hypocritical, selfish people.
Well, now that I write that out, it sounds a bit nuts. He works with politicians. At least some of them have had to be manipulative, hypocritical, and selfish.
BUT sometimes people deal with these types of people not realizing that they are these types of people.
In my book, unity involves compromise. And with compromise, both sides give in a little.
Well, actually with politics...the losing side should have to give in more.
When the winning side says unity, it doesn't mean...Hey, we're going to put away OUR agenda and let you put in your agenda...because we want your side to get everything they want.
I think it's more along the lines of , We're going to put through our agenda, but if we get along...maybe we'll listen and consider your positions and maybe even put some of them into action.
Personally, I'm not at all interested in having unity with Trumplicans. And sadly, most Republicans these days are Trumplicans.
I want unity with the people who are against Trumplicans and Trumpism.
Now I'm fine having unity with Trumplicans outside of politics. My family started a new rule of no political discussions, and we've all been getting along much better. It's impossible for us to unite on subjects like Trump, Impeachment, BLM protests, antisemitism, etc. But we get along pretty well when we're talking about TV shows, pets, family happenings, etc.
In other news...
I'm still liking Shameless a lot. I think the Joan Cusack storyline is very sad.
Some of the show is very pre-MeToo. They go with the trope of women lying about assault, and there's also a teenage girl (Laura Wiggins) sexually harassing an adult man (William H Macy).
I think these are the storylines we tend to get when men are dominating the writer's rooms.
I wonder what is the motivation behind these types of storylines. Is it male writers exorcising their personal anger? And if it's anger, does that anger come from their personal traumas? Or is it anger they've built up from seeing the women-are-liars-and-aggressors storylines in other TV shows, movies, books, etc.
Is it fantasy? Older men wishing teenage girls would proposition them?
Is it a way to appease some of the guilt for their own experiences or fantasies? Yes. I had sex with a fifteen year old. But it's not my fault. She was so sexy, and she kept flirting with me! What was I supposed to do?
I have zero doubts that flirtatious, hyper-sexual teenager girls exist and that they sometimes target older men.
BUT...I think in the real world women are much more often the victim of men. I think there are more incidents of women being harassed and assaulted by men than men being falsely accused of crime.
And I think there are more incidents of children and teenagers being groomed by sexual predators to become victims than children and teenagers sexually harassing disinterested men trying to mind their own business.
I think shows like Shameless, and other shows in the pre-MeToo era, present a picture that is the opposite of reality.
Hopefully that is changing a lot, because I think this false picture is one of the reasons that female victims are so often doubted when they speak up about abuse.
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