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Feb. 21st, 2024 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lakeeffectgirlLife has returned to normal after the Covid (it wasn't much worse than the random upper respiratory virus I used to catch occasionally, but I haven't taken that many sick days in a row since my brain surgery!) - we remain short-staffed at work since two of the students resigned within a few days of each other, so I am currently starting this entry from the Sunday overtime shift I'm on. We have two in training but it's still going to be weeks before they're ready to fly solo.
February seems to be the "don't feel much like writing" month, which tends to happen to me every winter so I shouldn't be surprised - I think I was hoping since it skipped me last year, I'd get lucky this year as well, especially since the weather has been so mild. But it's happened before and it'll happen again and eventually I'll feel like writing for real again. In the mean time, I've been reading an assortment of things and also watching a bunch of TV shows from my childhood, mostly Night Court but also some Designing Women and Northern Exposure.
Why were the fanboys so mad about this? Because the showrunner and leads are all women, and most of the male characters suck? Pretty sure if the mains had been dudes, the fanboys would have been all [jazzhands] about it. "It's not True Detective!" - a) shut the fuck up, and b) it's an anthology show. The seasons aren't all supposed to be the same. Full disclosure: I really like the first season, tried watching the second but hated all the characters immediately and quit without getting past the first episode, and haven't seen the third season yet (I do plan on watching it someday).
Anyway, Night Country notes:
- JODIE FOSTER JODIE FOSTER
- ugh but then she had to bone Chris Eccleston, an actor I dislike irrationally (we all have them)
- I liked all the messy interpersonal relationships, which of course are going to be messy when it's a small town where everyone knows everyone, and everyone knows everyone's business.
- It took me a while to not be thrown by Kali Reis' facial piercings every time she was on screen - not because they looked bad or anything, but because no law enforcement officer job in the country would let someone keep those piercings in while they were on duty because of the potential for injury. (Just like how you couldn't have an eyebrow piercing because it could get caught on something/someone/be yanked out by someone you're fighting with.)
- It felt really slow but this could be because I'm not used to watching HBO dramas that are an hour long.
- the Native cast were so fantastic; I would watch more things that Leah's actress and Quavvik's actor.
- I love how the press just called the clump of frozen scientists "the corpsicle".
- Still not sure why they bothered to get John Hawkes, since that was kind of a thankless role and his character sucked... otoh I did feel bad when his long-distance ladyfriend stood him up.
- Not enough Fiona Shaw!!
- Thought they did a fantastic job with keeping almost everything visible on screen even though the entirety of this was set in darkness.
- I think I might watch again sometime soon, just to pay attention to little details I missed this first time.
February seems to be the "don't feel much like writing" month, which tends to happen to me every winter so I shouldn't be surprised - I think I was hoping since it skipped me last year, I'd get lucky this year as well, especially since the weather has been so mild. But it's happened before and it'll happen again and eventually I'll feel like writing for real again. In the mean time, I've been reading an assortment of things and also watching a bunch of TV shows from my childhood, mostly Night Court but also some Designing Women and Northern Exposure.
Why were the fanboys so mad about this? Because the showrunner and leads are all women, and most of the male characters suck? Pretty sure if the mains had been dudes, the fanboys would have been all [jazzhands] about it. "It's not True Detective!" - a) shut the fuck up, and b) it's an anthology show. The seasons aren't all supposed to be the same. Full disclosure: I really like the first season, tried watching the second but hated all the characters immediately and quit without getting past the first episode, and haven't seen the third season yet (I do plan on watching it someday).
Anyway, Night Country notes:
- JODIE FOSTER JODIE FOSTER
- ugh but then she had to bone Chris Eccleston, an actor I dislike irrationally (we all have them)
- I liked all the messy interpersonal relationships, which of course are going to be messy when it's a small town where everyone knows everyone, and everyone knows everyone's business.
- It took me a while to not be thrown by Kali Reis' facial piercings every time she was on screen - not because they looked bad or anything, but because no law enforcement officer job in the country would let someone keep those piercings in while they were on duty because of the potential for injury. (Just like how you couldn't have an eyebrow piercing because it could get caught on something/someone/be yanked out by someone you're fighting with.)
- It felt really slow but this could be because I'm not used to watching HBO dramas that are an hour long.
- the Native cast were so fantastic; I would watch more things that Leah's actress and Quavvik's actor.
- I love how the press just called the clump of frozen scientists "the corpsicle".
- Still not sure why they bothered to get John Hawkes, since that was kind of a thankless role and his character sucked... otoh I did feel bad when his long-distance ladyfriend stood him up.
- Not enough Fiona Shaw!!
- Thought they did a fantastic job with keeping almost everything visible on screen even though the entirety of this was set in darkness.
- I think I might watch again sometime soon, just to pay attention to little details I missed this first time.
