Comfort Shows Playing in Our Living Room
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 06:28 pmWe’re watching one Serious Show — usually 60 minutes -- and then we need something sweet (what ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_feather calls a unicorn chaser).
Staged
Michael Sheen and David Tennant, the Good Omens' love-couple, play two actors in quarantine (basically themselves), encouraged by a bright young director to rehearse Pirandello over Zoom. It’s so meta. ( Read more... )
Better Things
We’ve treasured four seasons of Pamela Adlon’s situation-tragedy/slice-of-life 30-minute show. She writes, directs, casts, and acts. It’s auto-fiction for the screen sector: she’s a fifty-year-old mother of three, best-known for voice acting as a snotty kid in a popular snotty animated comedy. We appreciated the reality of family interactions: so sweet, so cruel, so confused, and so loving. ( Read more... )
What's uplifting at your house?