Curtains, by The Tindersticks
Sep 11, 2022 · 2 minute readHaving now watched all of Better Call Saul, I can now say, with feeling, “well, it’s not as good as The Beiderbecke Affair is it?” Plus: “ooooh, black and white! Isn’t it cinematic?”
I will try to write about The Organization at some point, but it’s amusing to me how much more I enjoyed a 50-year-old show with low stakes than the current “this is the greatest achievement that television has ever seen.”
(and it’s not just that - I’d even rate the completely episodic and self-contained editions of Lovejoy as a more enjoyable experience than seeing the usual ‘drugs!’ melodrama play out over five seasons of tedium…but I realize I might be an outlier here…)
Relatively sure nothing else happened this week…1
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I am a little mystified at the Twitter demands that the Queen was responsible for Biafra and the Mau Mau massacres. We don’t say that she was responsible for the Iraq War, do we? So why does she have to carry the sins of the Churchill and Wilson governments but not Blair? Even as a fervent anti-monarchist and of Irish Catholic background, it seems a bit much…and, I might add, a bit of a gloss over how, like Iraq, those atrocities were carried out by democratically-elected governments; displacing it onto the monarchy feels like it takes it out of our collective responsibility of a nation somewhat. ↩︎