Thanks, friend. Excited for the finale which I plan to watch on the plane if I can hide my phone well enough though perhaps I will use it as talking point to make friends with flight attendants.
Reading this is almost like getting coffee with you. Excellent recap and reading recs per usual. Thank you for reminding me of Geeta’s unparalleled glamour and for reading Octavia Butler then telling me to read it.
<3HUM<3 It was so so good and like our world slanted in a short amount of time. I can’t handle zombie stuff so I was hesitant on Pluribus, but I adore Rhea Seehorn so I watched the first five episodes with family. (Meaning I don’t have access anymore, no Apple TV.) There are a lot of very funny moments and it feels to me more of an exploration of what happens when you are the one person who resists becoming part of a hive mind. Not trying to convince you to watch it, but despite some echoes of Soylent Green, it feels pretty creative to me. (I could also be missing some Spec Fic canon it’s drawing from.) I also think it’s a pretty sharp commentary of the aggregate and fawning nature of AI chatbots, etc.
I love Pluribus! I love that there is a middle-aged cantankerous lesbian writer lead. And I feel that the slow reveal is the value of the complicated, un-evolved human experience and of creativity. That our creative minds are the only things that can’t be poached. That there is value to being where we’re each at, individually, imperfectly, soft and stupid-ly.
Dude I know! I absolutely love reading your TV recs & almost always heartily disagree but more in the way of “I wish we were watching these shows together & discussing vigorously!”
Obsessed with this recap of small town queer local politics
Hum is haunting—for sure! (And not only because the protagonist let those roaches continue to live her cabinets….
Epic newsletter, and I love your take on Heated Rivalry. 💖💖💖
Thanks, friend. Excited for the finale which I plan to watch on the plane if I can hide my phone well enough though perhaps I will use it as talking point to make friends with flight attendants.
Just bought a full set of the books for D and I meanwhile.
Reading this is almost like getting coffee with you. Excellent recap and reading recs per usual. Thank you for reminding me of Geeta’s unparalleled glamour and for reading Octavia Butler then telling me to read it.
We were so very young!
Yes, so very!
Geraldine McEwan 4 lyfe. Thank you for all the good recs
Nice! Yes! xo
TU for this spreadsheet! Also, I cannot watch Severance and now I don't feel so alone.
<3HUM<3 It was so so good and like our world slanted in a short amount of time. I can’t handle zombie stuff so I was hesitant on Pluribus, but I adore Rhea Seehorn so I watched the first five episodes with family. (Meaning I don’t have access anymore, no Apple TV.) There are a lot of very funny moments and it feels to me more of an exploration of what happens when you are the one person who resists becoming part of a hive mind. Not trying to convince you to watch it, but despite some echoes of Soylent Green, it feels pretty creative to me. (I could also be missing some Spec Fic canon it’s drawing from.) I also think it’s a pretty sharp commentary of the aggregate and fawning nature of AI chatbots, etc.
I love Pluribus! I love that there is a middle-aged cantankerous lesbian writer lead. And I feel that the slow reveal is the value of the complicated, un-evolved human experience and of creativity. That our creative minds are the only things that can’t be poached. That there is value to being where we’re each at, individually, imperfectly, soft and stupid-ly.
ARGH! Your argument is compelling!
Compelling counterpoint! xo
It is so funny that our literary tastes overlap and our TV interests are polar opposites!!
Dude I know! I absolutely love reading your TV recs & almost always heartily disagree but more in the way of “I wish we were watching these shows together & discussing vigorously!”
That would be amazing!!!
QOBUZ for music!!
<33 thank you so much for the shoutout
<3 I'm here for Alexander Skarsgård and Kristin Scott Thomas as literary agents or editors!!