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The seas will never run dry, my dear
It is astonishing to me how much energy I don't have these days. I had to visit a clinic for bloodwork yesterday and I was just useless for the rest of the day. I finished watching Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17), which I have enjoyed and generally recommend even though the first season doesn't find its footing until the finale and the fourth season should really have been a fourth and fifth (it was surprisingly valuable for my formative experience of narrative TV to have been Babylon 5, is what I'm saying). I graduated from envying most of the cast their waistcoats to envying some people their actual coats. Quite unfairly, I then slept badly, had one of the worst nightmares I can remember in months, and woke with a jaw-wrenching headache. Today has mostly been work. Have some links.
1. I would love to see the rest of the series of orixás this combination of photography and drawing belongs to: Tauan Carmo and Tiago Sant'ana, "Oxum—A Rainha das águas doces."
2. I wouldn't mind knowing where this bog trail is located, either, but I love how the water lies over the boardwalk.
3. This is such a mythic poem with such matter-of-fact roots, which I enjoy: L. K., "Old Flame."
4. Because it is suddenly September and I have to make honeycakes soon, I feel everyone should appreciate this flowchart of the Jewish holidays. "Is there a horn?" "Tekiah!"
5. I love these photographs of ocean so much. They make me hungry. I went to the photographer's website and found the sailing expedition to Antarctica they came from. I would like that much of snow and sea and seals in my life. I would like to be able to travel again.
1. I would love to see the rest of the series of orixás this combination of photography and drawing belongs to: Tauan Carmo and Tiago Sant'ana, "Oxum—A Rainha das águas doces."
2. I wouldn't mind knowing where this bog trail is located, either, but I love how the water lies over the boardwalk.
3. This is such a mythic poem with such matter-of-fact roots, which I enjoy: L. K., "Old Flame."
4. Because it is suddenly September and I have to make honeycakes soon, I feel everyone should appreciate this flowchart of the Jewish holidays. "Is there a horn?" "Tekiah!"
5. I love these photographs of ocean so much. They make me hungry. I went to the photographer's website and found the sailing expedition to Antarctica they came from. I would like that much of snow and sea and seals in my life. I would like to be able to travel again.
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I'm not at all familiar with Dark. I'm glad it did the best job it could with the room it had, but I really wish the network-imposed insta-wrap-up weren't such a recurring bug of non-miniseries TV.
They actually did a surprisingly good job, but that last season gets *dense* at times, and does even less hand-holding than the first two, which already expected you to do a lot of mental work.
Hand-holding isn't a problem with the last season of Turn, but density—and pacing, and prioritizing—is. If I write up this series in any serious fashion, I will undoubtedly complain in more detail. It ends well, but it kind of gets there on speed.
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I quite liked Dark; not sure if you would. It's a complex and grim small-town drama a la Twin Peaks, only with less humor, and replacing demons with time travel. The time travel aspects get increasingly baroque and complicated, but do seem to ultimately avoid becoming nonsense. I say "seem to", because the accelerated final season leaves a lot just implied.
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If the science fiction doesn't become silly and the grimness isn't to the point of grimdark, I might recommend it to my father. He just finished watching Better Than Us (2018) on Netflix and, beyond feeling that the finale went suddenly bigger than the story required or could convincingly pull off, really enjoyed it.
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