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Couple of cliches that piss me off: If a women is running from someone or something in a movie or a tv show, she is guaranteed to --FALL DOWN!! ALWAYS!! Don't know why writers insist on including this in show after show after show after show after show---etc,etc,!! Women just can't seem to run without falling down!!
Next cliche: Whether a "good "guy or a "bad "guy---someone pulls a gun and commences to blab about how the pointee deserves to be shot and by god, he / she is going to do it!! Then the pointer inevitably edges closer and closer to the pointee , who--of course, grabs the gun and then the fight begins!! They can't blab from 20 feet away? Again--over and over and over with that bullshit.

Now--here's why Ruthie in Ozark is a fantastic exception and is now my hero!! She said that she was going to shoot the Val character and she did not STAND AROUND AND BLAB ABOUT IT--she just shot the guy immediately upon his entrance and that was that.

I've always liked the portrayal of women in movies / tv as being tough as hell and able to kick the shit out of men that deserve it. I look for those kind of characters when searching Netflix, Prime, Showtime--etc when I'm looking for something to watch. NOW---back to Ruthie in Ozark. In what may now be one of my favorite scenes EVER --the man is going to kick Ruthie's ass when they are waaay up on top of the paddle wheeler and he tells her so------she says--"come get some"---immediately kicks him in the plum sack, gets behind him and flings him off the boat and he flies through the air about 3 stories down into the river!!! She didn't blab about what she was going to do--she just did it!! Now , that's taking care a' business!!! Love i!! Top a' the list!!

 

Never saw that-----

 

How It Really Happened. This episode is about Lorena Bobbitt.

 

Truth: Time slipping inexorably by.

 

Just lately been binging 'The Big Door Prize' on AppleTV

 

Picard binch watching 3 seasons(prime) atm..........not bad,but i am bias,always a trekkie



Mzzls

 

Aussie Open tennis

 

Weather Channel special on the LA fires…..horrifying. Incredibly specialists talked about the link to climate change and some of the ads were from gas guzzler, CO2 spewing oversized pickups. We have met thee enemy and he is us.

 

You may enjoy the show Yellowjackets. There are two separate storylines unfolding simultaneously: a storyline in 1996 about a high school girls soccer team that resorts to a kind of Lord of the Flies existence after their plane crashes in the wilderness, and a storyline about the same characters today, 25-30 years older, and how they're coping with the trauma they endured as teenagers.

It's pretty dark and fucked up in the way that it shows what enduring trauma during your formative years can do to basically "ruin" you as a person. It drew inspiration from that famous soccer team crash in the Andes (a team from Uruguay I think) and the Donner party story, and could be taken as a metaphor for the life long PTSD veterans deal with after experiencing combat as an 18 year old. So, the story and themes might be familiar, though I'd never seen such a narrative populated by an ensemble of strong women before.

The third season starts Valentines Day on Showtime!

 

Fantastic mad my day, I was in stitches.

 

This is great thank you, from everyone who likes to have a good sence of humour and fun.

 

American Primevil. Rough and most likely very close to how serious and deadly it was / could be back in 1857, etc. Particularly poignant to me , as relatives on grand fathers side traveled west from Illinois in covered wagons and horseback in that exact time period and relatives on grandmothers side traveled from Missouri to California the same way. The ones in the North had troubles with the Mormons as depicted in the series.

 

I must try to watch this scratch. It sounds good.

 

It seems to be spelled primevAL instead of what I put. No matter. I recommend it ,Joe.

 

Also, as I mentioned some-place in here--Landsman ---Billy Bob is sarcastic, funny and serious too. The show is very good and has finished a first season with 10 episodes. A second season has not been ordered yet--but one can hope!!