The first episode of The Miniature Wife… barely. Absolutely unwatchable, despite McFayden.
Of course, nothing will ever reach the cinematic heights of watching Lily Tomlin being catapulted off the master bed onto a skateboard, or the catchy Galaxy Glue tune.
Certainly not this garbage.
Big Mistakes was a big disappointment. Elements I enjoyed, but kind of clunky. The tone and the story are a bit labored and unengaging. Not sure how I feel about Rachel Sennott. This is my first exposure and in general she is kind of meh and a bit flat in that Aubrey Plaza way that I don’t need that much of in my life.
I bailed on I Love LA after two episodes, so that’s how I feel about her.
I bailed after 20 min. I just could not manage to care about any of the characters.
Never even watched a second of that show. Zero interest. I got through one episode of Big Mistakes and wanted to stop after 10 minutes. My wife wanted to see if it got better. It didn’t.
Somebody mentioned it here, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Unwatchable.
Perhaps not surprisingly, I didn’t find The Incredible Shrinking Woman that I practically forced my PIC to watch last night claiming it’s ‘comedy gold’ nearly as amusing as I did as a 10 yr old.
Whoda tunk! 
Not even the skateboard scene was as funny as I remembered it.
But my band might have to pick up Galaxy Glue 
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice was much funnier than we’d expected. Very entertaining.
Followed by a couple more Peep Show epis with the brilliant David Mitchell.
"I think I needed at least another 180 grams of salt in the brine"
I watched the Sky King documentary on Hulu and thought it was very well done. They really humanized the person who took the plane for a joy ride (instead of making him look like a domestic terrorist).They played the whole tape of the communication between him and Air traffic control, and his family heard it for the first time, which was really difficult to hear. He sounded like a really good person who suffered from depression.
This week of chefs were great. London week was a bit disappointing.
I couldn’t finish top chef this week. I guess I’m just not a barbecue person. Also I’d probably become a vegetarian if I had to do what they had to do this week.
I am behind on GBM!
Especially appreciate that we don’t have to hear about sponsors every other sentence. Feel like it’s really gone over the top on top chef.
Final episode of The Pitt. WAH! Now we hafta wait until January…
It’s like the old days when a season ended but back then you just had to wait out the summer, not eight months.
Or pre-VCR: if you missed a show’s episode, you’d NEVER be able to see it 
the new Beef season delivers. if you vibed with the original, this will scratch that itch. it was almost TOO poignant for me.
mild spoiler:
a lot of us are animal lovers here. this is a warning
I was just reminiscing over dinner about how back in the day, you had to wait for a commercial to go to the bathroom or get a refill on your wine. None of this pausing business!
I remember how revolutionary it felt to have a TV with a remote and a mute button so you didn’t have to listen to the commercials.
Barry Lyndon (1975) - dir. Stanley Kubrick
Post A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick had been planning an epic film on the life of Napoleon. He had been gathering materials and research for years, but the financing collapsed when a similar DeLaurentis film, Waterloo, tanked at the box office. Kubrick ended up using all the research to make Barry Lyndon, a story based on a novel by Thackeray, set in and around the 7 Years War.
The story itself is an episodic tale about a shallow, gold-digging loser played by Ryan O’Neal at the peak of his heartthrob status and an “Irish” accent that Kevin Costner must have studied for for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. It’s the Emerald Isle by way of Burbank.
But honestly, the plot almost seems secondary to the stunning technical work in display. The film won a number of Oscars, including Cinematography, Art Direction, and Costume Design, and was nominated for several more, including best picture. Kubrick employed special lenses from NASA to allow him to shoot entirely with natural light, including many scenes that are shot solely by candlelight.
Its slow pace and meandering story means it won’t ever achieve the notoriety of something like The Shining (about which, more later!) but it’s a really beautiful achievement, definitely worth the 3 hour run time.
Notably, my local art theater is showing 4 Kubrick films this month on 35mm, of which this is the first. The prints are a bit rough at the reel ends, but it seeing film grain and the ‘cigarette burns’ in the corner for reel changes give it a fabulous atmosphere.
The only bummer is that we also get the 35mm optical mono soundtrack, but that’s how it was back in the day, so…
3.5 out 5 authentic Prussian military uniforms.
