Hi, friends!
I hope your day went well.
What’s coming soon to tv/streaming/movies that has peaked your interest?
I saw Sunday night that a new season of Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy is coming out this fall. I love that show and he’s a great host, so a new season makes me very happy.
I’m also looking forward to the Black Panther sequel, Wakanda Forever. I don’t know what’s happening with that Mesoamerican culture but I did Maya archaeology in grad school so I’m stoked. I have very mixed thoughts about Apocalypto, which tried to depict Maya late postclassic culture but had some really shitty overtones (cough cough Mel Gibson). I expect the creative team with Ryan Coogler will do awesome things it.
I’m looking forward to Willow, it’s airing in November on Disney +.
Devotion, a story about the US Navy’s first ever African American Naval Aviator, Jesse Brown and his friend, Thomas Hudner (whose personal history would later help reduce some racial tension in the Navy during the 70s.)
Nov 2022
Season 5 of The Crown in November with its all-new cast. Right around that time Hazza’s memoir is supposed to come out. Apparently the book is done and has been but in a rare display of discretion they didn’t release it during the Jubilee. However, they wanted to hook it to something, so they pushed it back to ride a mutually beneficial Windsor-related cresting frenzy. If the Queen dies of course all bets are off and we will be seeing neither project for a good long while. That’s my guess anyway.
Going off-theme here, because open thread. I learned today that the woman responsible for me being fired — excuse me, my “position being eliminated” — was herself fired. Almost one year to the day after my dismissal.
Words cannot express how amused I am by this development.
Karma isn’t always just or fair, but when it happens… well, yeah it feels nice.
I suspect the feeling is similar to watching the former supervisor who made my life hell being asked to resign a few years back after he failed miserably when given the chance to show off the leadership skills he claimed he had, but actually didn’t.
My sources have been telling me the company revenue is in the toilet because no one knows what they’re doing. My division had the second highest revenue when I was there, and even during the pandemic we were turning a profit, albeit less that pre-pandemic. Now they’re apparently just hemorrhaging money. A couple of people told me that they heard people say that I never should have been fired because no one else knew how to run the training department.
So yeah, some serious gloating going on here. Might go on for a couple of days, even.
A truly epic “I told you so”
So lovely to hear – muhahaha – may they continue to live in interesting times!
That’s gotta be satisfying, cheers!
Fuck yeah!
I’m glad they’re doing more Tucci episodes in the fall because that 4 episode “season” was total bullshit.
Right!!! That was complete bullshit.
The Amazon Lord of the Rings prequel starts in 10 days and there’s been very little buzz. Maybe it’s intentional, but I’d think if they were really psyched they’d be tooting their horn more.
I couldn’t follow along with the trailer as to what was supposed to be going on. I feel slightly embarrassed admitting that, but them’s the breaks. I did end up googling it to understand more. I only read the LOTR trilogy and the Hobbit, so anything before that age of Middle Earth I am going to need them to give more breadcrumbs on for me as a viewer to follow it.
Also I’m highly suspicious that the halfling women are actually not thicc like hobbits and I’m gonna be cranky about that.