I’ve been going back and forth on this. I’ve been enjoying it and at the same time struggling with such a grating main character. It worked as a supporting character on Motherland, but I’m trying to figure out how this works as focus. But the supporting characters are all appealing enough which is good. (I’m delighted to spend more time with Anne and will watch Siobhan McSweeney always).
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I think I partly enjoy it because I’ve actually come across women like that during my decade of living in London!
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Correction…it was 61 years ago in 1964.
The Odd Couple movie with Lemmon and Matthau.
What a couple!
Oh yes, she is a type. She’s a bit much though to sustain total focus. But the show is working. I’m just wondering how.
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This was quite fun. Includes classics like Heroin A.M., Mom Jeans, and Annuale.
More from the SNL women here.
Reconnecting Roots hosted by Gabe McCauley on PBS.
Today’@s episode is on the recording industry. It is a quick 30 minute show with lots of good information and some music closing it out.
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Started Somebody Somewhere, which seems sweet, and continued with the first season of Atlanta, a show we shamefully somewhat missed when it was broadcast, and which is hilarious. Pretty stoked we have a bunch of seasons to catch up on.
Finally watched Conclave, which had been in our queue forevah. Good cast, rather fabulous & unexpected ending.
Another couple of Atlanta epis we are enjoying greatly. Who cares we’re late to the game. Didn’t watch Breaking Bad until it was about 2 seasons in 
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I don’t think I watched all of those; thanks for the mention.
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Watched another episode of the SNL documentary on Peacock. It was about the season they almost got cancelled and I think only Jon Lovitz and Nora Dunn made it to the next season. Feels like they could do about 10 more hours of the documentary. Need to watch the music one that quest love put together.
Also found some beginning episodes of the new Great British Menu 2025 on Daily Motion. It’s their 20th anniversary season.
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Paradise on Hulu.
Pretty good so far - 5 episodes out, 2 to go:
Good cast — Sterling K Brown, Julianne Nicholson, James Marsden, Sarah Shahi, and more.
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Whoa. We watched Swallow last night, a 2019 movie about a newly pregnant woman seeking … relief? an escape? from her douche of a husband and her controlling in-laws. At times tough to watch, I thought this was an interesting meditation on independence, bodily autonomy (in a fucked up way), and feminism. As most of my recommendations, not for the faint of heart 
A couple more episodes of Atlanta afterwards for brain cleanse. Hilarious and thought-provoking as usual. Looking forward to the following seasons. Donald Glover is such a talent.
Last weekend we took a little improv trip down to Oakland and SF, where we hit up the SF MOMA. I hadn’t been in many years. The building is still a remarkable structure gorgeous in its own right.
The bridge across the atrium is now an elaborate kaleidoscopic portal:
And there’s a lovely Yayoi Kusama installation of an infinite mirror room with big bright circles of color
There’s some really beautiful photography from the early days of cameras and film.
It’s a pretty great place. Carve out time for a trip if you can.
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We first started watching The Birthday, listed as being 2 hours long and from 2024.
Much to our surprise, it was actually from 2004 (and a slightly shorter running time), and featured the stunningly untalented Corey Feldman* “acting” his way through the first 10 minutes before I couldn’t take it any longer. Awful. Like, really bad.
Pivoted to Come to Daddy, a horror flick with Elijah “Blue Eyes” Wood. It’s a slow burn — so much so that I started questioning its genre — but when it gets started… oh daddy, does it ever. Fun ride.
Followed by the first 4 episodes of Atlanta, 2nd season.
*Fun fact: Corey Feldman had a “VIP” appearance a few years ago at a minor league baseball game we went to, “performing” a song with “background dancers.” Yeah, the quotes are on purpose. It was about as bad as one would expect.
Yikes.
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that film seemed to be on a resurgence recently as a bunch of indie film houses started showing it ( and bugging me to come see it). I think Feldman is capable of decent work on occasion. check him out in the mind boggling good-bad movie Dream a Little Dream.
Yeah, I think Ima pass on that. I can’t stand the guy 
Finished watching The Are Murders last night, really good. Ordered season 4 of “The Bridge” from the library, but I can’t remember if I’ve already watched it. Another great Scandi murder mystery.
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The Birthday
I JUST watched this and was about to post. Yeah, it’s a really weird one.
Feldman plays Norman Forrester, a real schmendrick. Pitching his voice somewhere between a young nervous Jack Lemon and Jerry Lewis in his goofball “Hey LAY-Dee!” mode is a choice that grates initially, but eventually becomes just part of the twitchy, hunched performance Feldman gives.
Poor Norman is attending a birthday party for his rich, upper class girlfriend’s father at the Royal Fulton hotel. But something very odd is going on. The waiters all act very strange, and Norman can’t quite keep up with all the strange goings on.
The whole movie has a ‘just off to the side of reality’ feel to it, which is the main builder of tension. Things DO finally get somewhat explained, and there is a climax which is perfectly earned, but this is going to be a divisive film, as @linguafood’s opinion shows.
Feldman basically goes into Nic Cage mode, exaggerating and committing to the broad emotions of his character and the outlandish, black comedy tone of the film. To be clear, he’s no Nic Cage, but certainly, he’s probably more suited to this mode of performance than trying to sell himself in a straight drama or comedy.
I was hesitant to watch this. Feldman has spent the last couple of decades going through a lot. His frequent acting partner and friend, Corey Haim, died via overdose, and he has long maintained both he and Haim were subject to sexual abuse as child/teen actors. There have been frequent noises about him ‘naming names’ but they never quite materialize. His attempt at a music career with the “Corey’s Angels” girls he had surrounding him. Clearly, he has some stuff to sort out. I had no desire to watch this to laugh at a person in pain.
Thankfully, that isn’t what this is. It’s odd, it’s not for everyone. But if you’re willing to meet this film where it is, you might dig it. Or not. That’s ok too.
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