For the first time last week I had Covid. I've avoided for four years, took every precaution yet still lived my life from 2020 to now.
I, even, in the pre-vaccination period (you remember: six feet apart, one-way supermarket aisles, anti-bacterial spraying the ATM but also everything else... yes those things) sprayed someone with hospital grade spray. Here's the story. A friend worked at an animal hospital and thinking we were in pre-apocalypse status gave me the hard-core product. At the market when someone repeatedly didn't get out of my space after several requests then warnings I took the spray bottle I had hung on the push bar of my shopping cart and sprayed that person. I wasn't proud but it was 2020. I stayed safe! This post is about TV/movie reviews and not my becoming unhinged, so here goes.
So what I've watched this week and some of my takeaways.
FARGO SEASON FIVE: I don't know about you but someone like Ole Munch shows up anywhere in the universe, he is evaluated and placed in long term psych hospitalization care. I don't care if he's immortal or not, there are some red flags. Just his babbling alone---why did people put up with it? NOT even one said, "What the fuck are you saying?" You think that would happen at least once.
HOUSE: I never watched it when it was on. How times have changed. Fargo's Sheriff Tillman's misogyny meant bad, awful, terrible guy. Dr. House's meant quirky good guy. Damn you, Woke Nation. Anyway, this is an obvious pre-streaming show, and the spoiler is, I can tell you every plot of every episode.
Introduce character that drops nearly dead in first five minutes.
House's staff have theories that are always wrong because....
Dr. House has outrageous diagnostic and treatment number 1.
House argues with Dr. Cuddy.
Patient seizes every episode when treatment 1 doesn't work.
Dr. House meets someone quirky and placed in show for humor in the Clinic.
Dr. House has an epiphany for an new rare/outrageous treatment 2 after dealing with same quirky character placed in the episode.
Treatment works, because if it didn't the patient will die.
House's staff are fine with being wrong every episode because House is always right.
Dr. Cuddy says something to House with tail between her legs.
Nearly dead X 2 patient walks or rolls out of hospital accompanied by House and/or House's staff.
Roll credits.
Silver Linings Playbook: Perfect sick movie since I've seen it three times before---figured I can dose in and out of this one too. Problem was I got involved and didn't sleep.
Better Call Saul, Season Six, and only Season Six: Great rewatch. Still a bit weak of Saul to just give up at the end? Did it prove he can change, because that's not his character. Also this is a better written show than the great Breaking Bad. There, I said it.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: How is McMurphy locked up and Ole Munch out and about in the Midwest killing people? WT freaking F.
The Midnight Sky: I took a bad week to go off my anti-depressants and watch this one. Good movie but is there any hope? This dystopian film is summed up by George Clooney's characters' quote. He was perhaps the last living human on earth, after "the event" telling those still up in a space ship who can't land on the failing, uninhabitable planet, "We didn't do a very good job of looking after the place while you were away." The thought, "Covid killing me isn't this bad," crossed my mind.
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