Saturday, August 1, 2020


--   7:13a  Up
--   8:05a  Leaving to bike a little.  Rain is in area.
--   8:25a  Inside after biking 2 mi;  Breakfast @home: Breakfast @home: Chicken fajita burrito bowl (ate half)
I got free guac for Nat'l Avocado Day, but, at first, I thought that the forgot to add it.
Then I found some.  Maybe there's more in the remaining half.
--   8:55a  Inside after biking 2 mi.
--   9:10a  "For Life" (03/17/20)
-- 12:50p  Nap
--   2:40p  Up
--   3:25p  Leaving to bike a little and then get dinner @Steve's Gyros.
--   4:30p  Inside after biking 4 + 2. Dinner @home: Gyros
--   5:00p  Was about to bike but Jeri & Joel called.
--   5:13p  Biked 1 mi in barely there drizzle, then sat in garage;  Talked to neighbor,
--   5:44p  Although there was still some drizzle, left to bike.
--   6:03p  Inside after biking another 3 mi (14 today)

>>>   6:21p  "Motherland: Fort Salem" (03/18/20) (Metacritic: 49, 40-60, #7)
Focuses on 3 recruits in an alternative America where witches avoided the witch trials by agreeing to cooperate with the government.
~~  One critic said, "Narrative bagginess swallows all the story’s oxygen and blows it out as stale air: It squanders precious opportunities to develop compelling antagonists—and that lack of complexity is even more unfortunate given that the three leads are so charismatic and well-cast."
Another said, "After six episodes, the tone is still uneven and some of the reveals are hard to follow. Dialogue is occasionally clunky, frequently bordering on ridiculous."
Another said it, "combines too many ideas in order to make one wildly confusing show that, despite its insistence otherwise, struggles to understand what “empowerment” actually means."
~~  It's very confusing.  These aren't the kind of witches I'm used to seeing on TV.
I don't know if these kinds of witches have been portrayed elsewhere.
I'll probably keep watching, although I could skip this show.

--   7:00p  Backyard going away party for neighbor.
They served cake and then put on a streaming blues concert from Rosa's Lounge.
--   8:00p  Home;  Resume "M:FS"
--   9:39p  "Breeders" (03/23/20)
-- 10:23p  Skim Ch7 news
-- 11:40a  Bed
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