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smilebackwards) wrote2025-01-13 09:24 pm
smilebackwards) wrote2025-01-13 09:24 pm
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the center cannot hold
First new reads and watches of 2025!
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Continuing my reading of new-to-me classics. This was another really interesting POV one. Traditional African culture running up against British colonialism. I didn't originally realize this was part of a trilogy but maybe I'll read the next two. Also, it's becoming a pattern that every time I read a classic it seems to get a new TV/movie release. Wuthering Heights is being redone, Netflix just released One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Things Fall Apart has an upcoming TV adaptation staring Idris Elba and David Oyelowo.
In television, I watched:
Brilliant Minds (season 1): Zachary Quinto on my TV! I actually loved this show. It feels so much kinder than most medical shows and they really lean into adapting to and living with neurological issues rather than 'we solved your medical mystery and you're cured yay'. NBC, please renew.
Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 5): Final season! I miss them already. Mariner and T'Lyn are my faves <3
Also, I don't usually list all the movies I watch because it would probably be a lot but I have to say I watched Conclave and it was soooo much fun. I love that it's a political drama but also, quite frankly, a comedy from a certain perspective. I was all set to go see this in theaters months ago and then I got absolutely slammed with some kind of respiratory illness and by the time I was better it was out of theaters, boo. Anyway, both this and Brilliant Minds are on Peacock and were worth the $8 to me, although I should go cancel now so I don't forget in February.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Continuing my reading of new-to-me classics. This was another really interesting POV one. Traditional African culture running up against British colonialism. I didn't originally realize this was part of a trilogy but maybe I'll read the next two. Also, it's becoming a pattern that every time I read a classic it seems to get a new TV/movie release. Wuthering Heights is being redone, Netflix just released One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Things Fall Apart has an upcoming TV adaptation staring Idris Elba and David Oyelowo.
In television, I watched:
Brilliant Minds (season 1): Zachary Quinto on my TV! I actually loved this show. It feels so much kinder than most medical shows and they really lean into adapting to and living with neurological issues rather than 'we solved your medical mystery and you're cured yay'. NBC, please renew.
Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 5): Final season! I miss them already. Mariner and T'Lyn are my faves <3
Also, I don't usually list all the movies I watch because it would probably be a lot but I have to say I watched Conclave and it was soooo much fun. I love that it's a political drama but also, quite frankly, a comedy from a certain perspective. I was all set to go see this in theaters months ago and then I got absolutely slammed with some kind of respiratory illness and by the time I was better it was out of theaters, boo. Anyway, both this and Brilliant Minds are on Peacock and were worth the $8 to me, although I should go cancel now so I don't forget in February.