As I was heading to my car afterward,
I noticed a plastic skeleton hand lying in the parking lot
next to a cigarette butt.
It seemed to tell a complete story.
I wanted to take a picture of it
but it was raining hard
and the point was pretty much already made.
Although I still have a few follow up questions.
Why just the skeleton hand?
Is there a full skeleton sitting in the passenger seat of a car
RIGHT NOW missing its right hand?
Why the skeleton in February?
Is this about more than cigarettes and Waffle House?
Anyhoo…
I thought I'd mention a few things I've been digging lately.
1. Stranger Things
Ellie suggested we watch this as a family back in January. My brother told me I'd love it since it's set in the 80s and a small town in Indiana. (So basically, my life.)
It's soooo good!
Like E.T. and Goonies good, except Ellie likes it.
(We could never get our girls interested in
watching The Goonies and they HATED E.T.)
The writing is funny, thrilling and just flat-out entertaining. And it has the best theme music EVER.
I will warn you: this isn't for kids. There's language and situations that's intense. It's not horror scary; it's suspenseful. There's some jump moments and I had to watch the next to last episode of season 2 alternating between crouching down behind my kitchen island and hiding behind the living room French doors. (Because I'm THAT brave.)
But it's SO WORTH IT. You will love the cast.
I'm not sure how we are going to be able to wait
until the next season comes out
since they haven't even started filming it yet!
CONS: Monte and I did have a few nightmares and we've become super suspicious of a few buildings near our house that we've never really paid attention to before. But I always have crazy dreams and maybe it's high time we start wondering what those satellites are for by that building so close to our house. And maybe that skeleton hand in the parking lot of Waffle House was a signal to me from the Upside Down.
2. The Crown/Victoria
Monte and I started watching both of these shows before Ellie suggested Stranger Things. Our viewing was almost exclusively Victoria on PBS and The Crown on Netflix when I started dreaming in a British accent.
First of all, both of these shows prove how little we know about global history--especially the history of the monarch.
And boy, England didn't like Ireland much.
The acting in both shows is superb. Both queens are young when they take over the throne and until recently, Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch in the United Kingdom's history. Now it is Queen Elizabeth.
It's so interesting how both characters, almost a century apart, struggled with the sovereignty of their position and the submission of being a wife. Neither of their husbands handled that well--especially Phillip. What a cry sack!
John Lithgow as Winston Churchill in The Crown is fantastic!
I actually might seek out a biography to learn more about Churchill.
We haven't finished season 2 yet of The Crown because, THE OLYMPICS, but hope to soon. We are all caught up on Victoria as it is on PBS and we have to wait a week between each episode like we are Neanderthal man.
CONS: The Crown seems hopelessly slow after Stranger Things. Victoria is slightly more fast paced. But my heart (and my dreams) needed the slow down. The accents make some of the dialogue tough to keep up with so we finally started using closed captioning so we could read what they were saying. Game changer. Again, it has helped our lessons in history. For example, the potato famine was a real thing!
3. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
This is an Amazon series with only one season currently out. Monte and I blew through the first season very quickly. It's that good! It's set in 1950s New York with a young Jewish mom who's husband just left her. She quickly realizes her college degree in Russian literature probably isn't going to get her a lucrative job so through a series of interesting events, she tries out stand-up comedy.
It's very interesting how they show what was happening in comedy at the time. Comedians were getting arrested for language and certain topics. And the idea of a female comedian was not well received.
This show is very funny. The main character is so charming and her quick delivery of lines is perfect. Her wardrobe is the stuff Barbie dreams of.
Tony Shalhoub plays the father and steals many a scene.
CONS: This has some serious language in it. It's so not necessary and I hope there's less of it next season. Because of course I'll be watching.
4. Hart of Dixie
Ok. I have to just call this what it is. And this is a slightly racier version of a Hallmark movie except in a series format.
There's a city slicker New York doctor who finds herself in a small southern town called Bluebell. There's tons of town festivals and traditions. There's likable quirky characters like the southern belle snot named Lemon and an ex-NFL player mayor who also just happens to own an alligator named Burt Reynolds. Hilarity ensues.
It checks a lot of boxes for me.
Mainly that I don't have to hide behind the kitchen island to watch it. Ever.
And I don't have to worry about learning a lesson in history.
Unless you count that Bluebell celebrates Planksgiving instead of Thanksgiving
because of their rich pirate history, frying up a bunch of fish in the town square
instead of the traditional turkey.
Except you really shouldn't.
CONS: It's cheesy. We are two seasons into the 4-series show and we still aren't sure we like the main character. But, just like a Hallmark Christmas movie, you keep watching to see what happens because it's relaxing in a mind-numbing non challenging way.
Just to prove that I haven't been exclusively watching television, I want to mention some movies and books I've enjoyed too but I'll have to save that for another post since dinner isn't going to make itself.
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