I am losing count on how many Pandemic posts I have done but if feels like a thousand. That having been said, I will say that there is so much great stuff out there that even if I watched 20 hours of television a week I would not run out of great content. We are enjoying such a wealth of fantastic shows, I many times don't want to choose because they are all so good.
We have decided to take a break from Anime and Animated shows now that Avatar the Last Airbender is done but I am sure we will start the latest season of My Hero Academia so standby for a review of that in the near future. Here are some goodies and not so goodies that I spend my last couple of weeks on:
Friends Reunion: HBO Max Ahhhh Friends. I remember the early 90's, I remember Thursday night Must See TV Lineups, I remember girls grouping together in the dorm that i frequented but did not live in, I remember finding Chandler hysterical but Joey so attractive. I was sad the special reunion show was not longer and that they didn't go in to more back story but I will say that I am no longer attracted to shows about 6 white friends who live in colorful and large NYC apartments and spend tons of time sleeping around with each other. Don't get me wrong, it was good when I was 18 to 21 but then I got a boyfriend, I got a job, I grew up a bit and it lost its appeal. What did you think?
The Kominsky Method: Season 3 Netflix I love Michael Douglas and always have since the first time I saw him in Romancing the Stone with Kathleen Turner so imagine my delight when Kathleen Turner is featured in the majority of Season 3, husky, smokers rattle and all. This is a great series, funny and heartfelt, witty and hilarious and did I mention that Paul Riser is in it as well? Yes, there is a lot of dying. Yes, it is like Grace and Frankie but for dudes. Yes, I'm starting to reguarly get letters from AARP. But all that aside, I enjoy a show that gives jobs to older actors regardless as to their age and I love when they make me laugh and cry and wish there were more episodes. Not for all ages.
Dear Chelsea: Podcast What will Chelsea Handler do next? I have to say that this girl has some hustle. She went from a pretty trashy and tabloid infused talk show to writing some chuckle books about her alcohol infused 20's and 30's to doing some stand up, then having a Netflix talk show, then a travel/docu series and now a podcast. It was pretty good - she is trying to help people and do good things. I don't like the calling in portion - too Doctor Drew and is he even a doctor? Anyway - if you like Podcasts, which I generally do not, check it out. Not as good as Fremdlauschen but that is because she hasn't talked about Hilaria Baldwin yet.
Expecting Amy - HBO Max WOW - I am an Amy Schumer fan but this 3 part docu-series is really really good. It follows Amy and her career and life as she navegates a stand up tour and a highly dangerous pregnancy while struggling with hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition where you vomit throughout your pregnancy and struggle with dehydration. I have to say that if this woman chooses not to ever have children again based on this condition, I will totally understand - I can't believe that she had this condition for a week let alone for 10 months and also she was on a comedy tour with shows at least once a day, sometimes twice. Anyway - this woman is a true comedienne, she tells a joke at the same time she is throwing up, and then she uses the vomit episode as comedy fodder, only a professional could pull that off. Check it out, you will find yourself cringing and laughing at the same time.
Abortion: Stories Women Tell - HBO Max This documentary packs a punch - very powerful stories told here. Before you freak out and buy an orange vest and take a day off work to go kneel in front of the local Planned Parenthood - take the time to see stories from both sides of the fence and see what those stories sound like, what they have to say and how choices affect the people who make them. I can't judge these women because I am only in charge of myself and I can only make choices that affect myself. These women are brave and strong and made the choices they made and they have to live with those choices. I am happy that these types of documentaries exist because it denotes a cultural change, it means that we can tell these stories and let them rest somewhere, instead of hiding, petrified that someone will find out what we did and we will forever be labeled as "one of those women". Watch it with your sons and daughters, open up dialogue, create safe space.