Posts Tagged ‘entertainment’
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Streaming television entertainment can be as pernicious as social media apps’ algorithm-driven endless scrolling features. Before the credits even start to roll, the screen flips to a promo for another enticing new series that matches your viewing history.
I tend to tell people that I’ve stumbled on to some new show that looks promising, but the truth is closer to these programs being purposely placed before my eyes. This weekend it is “Bad Monkey” with Vince Vaughn in the lead role that has grabbed our attention after just two initial episodes. Once again we find ourselves hooked into a series that is too new for us to indulge in a binge-fest that finishes in a couple of days like we would a good book.
We are stuck waiting for the next episode to drop on Wednesday.
It was just instinct that had both Cyndie and me feeling this was going to be worth our attention for some high entertainment value until we caught a segment on CBS Sunday Morning that introduced us to author Carl Hiaasen who wrote the novel the show is based on. Deeper in their piece on the show and this author, they reveal the series producer is Bill Lawrence whose work includes two other favorites of ours, “Ted Lasso” and “Shrinking” among his other creations.
In this case, I shouldn’t complain about the automated output that algorithms dictate to show up before my eyes.
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Race Drama
I need to be careful what I wish for. Yesterday, I tossed out the hope that it might be rainy here at the lake so I wouldn’t feel bad sitting inside to watch the second-to-last mountain stage of the Tour de France. Well, it was storming so bad for a while, there was no signal to the satellite dish for us to receive the telecast of the beginning kilometers.
Luckily, things settled down in time to see much of the excitement. In a dramatic surprise, yellow jersey contender, Thibaut Pinot had to abandon due to a knee injury, but that was greatly overshadowed when the stage was stopped prematurely, mid-descent, due to an epic hail-storm. Times were taken at the top of the previous big climb and resulted in a change in leadership.
Columbian Egan Bernal is now in yellow!
Now the weather here at the lake is gorgeous and I am going to sit inside regardless, to see what drama might top that of yesterday.
It doesn’t solve any problems in the world, but the distraction of a great athletic endeavor for entertainment certainly serves to energize.
Race on!
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