itās nice to have a balanced TV diet at all times... currently? addicted to For All Mankind on Apple TV and also Summer House on Bravo started with FAM last night, which imagines a world in which the Soviets win the Space Race in 69 rather than the US and is kind of slayyy, and finished up with Summer House, which bravely decides to explore what happens when a bunch of yuppie NYC millennials head to the Hamptons every weekend (spoiler: get shitfaced fight and fuck). sometimes this is the only thing my brain can enjoy watchin while other times, iām eager to Understand Intelligent Dialogue (IUD but different). we are simply not in control of our desires so we must have options for both situations :)
Yeah severance is the best tv show on right now and I will watch it and discuss the nuances and the shots and coloring and the writing!! like Thatās art, thatās critiquing culture, thatās bringing something new to the table I will ALSO sit my ass down with wine and popcorn and watch the new love is blind episodes(and love island this summer!!!) because tv can also serve the purpose of shutting my brain O-F-F !!
just to give your brain a little work out i'm currently running season 5 of LOST alongside season 2 of Ugly Betty and really enjoying the concept of Charles Whidmore's magazine empire he started after leaving The Island
āļø Doctor Who (i love rewatching the revival but havenāt seen as much classic who as i want to yet)
āļø Star Trek (currently watching all of it in order and am watching ds9 and voyager rn)
āļø Interview With The Vampire (evil gays my beloved)
āļø splitting spot #4 between all my fav sitcoms i watch when i want to switch off my brain (eg New Girl, Brooklyn 99, Miranda)
ngl these change all the time bc of hyperfixations
i love that our seemingly high-tech phones still cannot do the job of capturing the moonās ethereal essence. itās so humbling and vulnerable to attempt to take a photo of her and have it come out all ugly and orb-like. itās literally none of ur business to see what she looks like anytime apart from the present moment! (and please donāt tell me if samsung or google pixel have invented technology to do a better job of this. it wouldnāt sit right with meā¦ like trying to sneakily undress a woman without her consent when she has explicitly stated sheād rather remain demurely clothed and mysterious)
it's like.... kind of insane that we (not me, of course) made the internet to be any other way. imagine if the real world were algorithmic... how kooky would that be?? you'd only ever talk to people who've already gotten a thumbs up from 10,000 other people that they're cool and worthy of being heard and it would be super weird and parasocial bc everybody else would be trying to get their attention too. and maybe you'd only be able to see people like in that episode of Black Mirror w Jon Hamm where some ppl are crystal clear in color and others are blurred out and grey and inaccessible to you. well, that's what an algorithmic internet feels like!!!! and it's terrible! i like being able to post on here whenever a thought softly lands in my head and know whoever happens to refresh their page or hop onto the app when i hit SHARE will be able to see it right away... it's the beauty of your words being seen at the right time with no filters or algorithms shoving u into a corner.....and being able to see others in the same way <3
