So, the blogspot blog I started several years ago, which sat in cyberspace basically untouched since, has vanished. Cannot find it via Google search (telling, since apparently Google acquired Blogspot sometime in the intervening years). Cannot find a link to it. So, gone. Finito. OK, we start again.
When I started the blog, I was enthused enough to think I might keep a separate blog for each of my interests. A blog for movies. A blog for sports. A blog for opera. A blog about family.Didn't work out. I managed ultimately to ignore all those subjects as my interest waned. This, time, let's worry about keeping this one going. Besides, with only 15 gigs of storage available free of charge, we do have to think about how to maintain this tiny corner of the internet in the months or years to come.
To start, I offer a brief discussion of the new Jenji Kohan series Orange is the New Black. Both Karen and I were loyal fans of Weeds and we were quite curious to see how her creativity would fare in a dramedy about women incarcerated in a medium-security federal prison. Not surprisingly, she's hit another home run. The writing is sharp, deep, well-conceived and spellbinding, just like Weeds. The acting was top-drawer, among both the performers I knew of -- Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, Laura Prepon -- and the performers new to me, especially Taylor Schilling in the lead role. Unlike Weeds, this show is based directly on another property: a personal memoir by a woman named Piper Kerman who based much of the plot and action of Orange on her own experiences; like her lead character (also named Piper, but with a different last name), she was convicted of transporting a suitcase-full of drug money for her drug-dealer lesbian lover. Indeed, as the story is nearly totally autobiographical, I wonder why she bothered to change the last name of her counterpart. Whatever her reasons, I respect them. All episodes are on Netflix, and all were available at once. I became a subscriber of their streaming service only a couple of weeks ago, and now I find that Netflix is aiming to develop more and more original programming and less and less movies. I'm disappointed at this development, as what attracted me to Netflix in spite of all its troubles last year was its vast library of films and TV series. To make room for the new programming they feel the need to cut dozens of movies. I don't see why they can't have both original show and a large repertory, but they do.
Time to go exercise. I will, repeat will be back.
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