Dave-El's Spinner Rack: DC Pride 2024

It may be a tad late to talk about DC Comics' yearly entry for Pride Month but here it is anyway.

Their annual DC Pride book is always a slick and engaging collection of stories that looks at characters from a perspective that may not always get a lot of attention during the latest "crisis that will change everything" event. 

The opening story is to my mind the strongest with DC scoring a bit of a coup with long time Marvel writer Al Ewing making his DC debut with a short story based on the Mikal Tomas version of Starman.  

I'm a big fan of Stephen Byrne's artwork and this story is an excellent showcase for his talents.  

A few years ago, the late actor Kevin Conroy wrote an autobiographical story about his experiences as a gay man in an industry that was not always kind to the gay community and how what he went through gave insight to his performance as the voice of Batman/Bruce Wayne in the acclaimed animated Batman series.  

This time out, long time comics artist and writer Phil Jiminez opens up about his life as an openly gay man and how that influenced his work, especially during the time he was in charge of writing and drawing Wonder Woman.  

Overall, DC Pride 2024 is a strong package of stories. 

There may be some issue that some of the stories are not self contained, serving as launches for other comics.  For example, Nicole Maines is back to write a Dreamer story that will lead into an upcoming Dreamer & Suicide Squad series.  

And it is distressing that in the current socio-political environment, several pages are given over to promote resources to make sure the LGBTQ+ community is safe. It is good to know those resources are there; it's just a damn shame they are needed. 

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In my last Spinner Rack post, I noted I heard that Batman was dead.

Er, not quite. 

Batman is fine but Bruce Wayne is dead.

Uh, not actually but...

As part of a plot in Chip Zdarsky's most recent storyline, a clone of Bruce Wayne was created and rapidly aged to adulthood. But the aging doesn't stop when adulthood is achieved so our Bruce Wayne tries to save the clone.

But fails.

With original Bruce by his side, clone Bruce gets to do what our Bruce figures he will never do: die in peace of old age.

More of Zdarsky's Batman in a future Spinner Rack post.   

Tuesday TV Touchbase: The Boys and My Adventures With Superman

Andrea's still watching the Olympics and I'm not sure where this comes from. It's not like she keeps up with gymnastics and swimming in between Olympics but she's keen on it now. 

In my write up about the Opening Ceremony, I forgot to mention the death of Christianity.  

Among the performances was a live reproduction of the classic Leonardo da Vinci painting of "The Last Supper". 

By drag queens.

Yep, that did it! 

The cries went out (mostly from America) of "Blasphemy!" "Disrespectful!" and "Offensive!"

Donald Trump Jr (you know, the Donald without the charm) called it "Satanic". 

Sorry, Christians, you had a good run but hey, if you can't handle a live version of a 15th century painting by drag queens, well, maybe it's time to close up shop.

Welcome to this week’s Tuesday TV Touchbase.

 

Our theme this week is Super Hero BAD vs. Super Hero GOOD!

 

Let’s get the BAD out of the way first.

 

Super hero BAD!

The Boys

Homelander Wins!

 

• Vice President Victoria Newman is dead! (Killed by the sentient super tumor that’s controlling Billy Butcher! Damn!)
• It wasn’t pretty! She was ripped in half!! My God this show is show gross!!!
• President Bob Singer is framed for her murder! (Yikes!)
• And Speaker of the House Calhoun who is all in for Homelander is now President and puts Homelander in charge of national security (Oh this is NOT good!)
• Homelander has sent out every supe in America to round up everyone who is an enemy (defined as any one who thinks Homelander being in charge is bad idea) and throw them in jail.  (This is SO bad!)

 

From the Boys, MM, Frenchie, Komiko and Hughie have been captured. Only Annie January (the erstwhile Starlight) eludes capture. 

And whatever Billy Butcher is now is still out there somewhere.  

 

I think the last word was that the 5th and final season will not be coming around until 2026? Are you frickin’ kidding me?!?! 

 

Now…

 

Super Hero GOOD!

My Adventures With Superman

This looks like a job for Superman… and Supergirl!

 

The back half of season 2 as a multi-part epic where Clark runs headlong into his Kryptonian heritage.  And it ain’t pretty.

 

It seems that artificial life form Brainiac is out to restore the Kryptonian Empire (Make Krypton Great Again?) and is using Clark’s cousin Kara Zor-El who thinks restoring the Empire is a good thing but Brainiac just wants to see the universe burn and has turned his attention to Earth.

 

It isn’t easy at first to turn from what she’s known all her life but with Brainiac always reminding her she’s a stupid useless life form and Clark telling her the exact opposite, well, eventually she comes around to her cousin’s side to kick Brainiac’s ass.

 

As a life long comic book fan and a Superman fan, it’s hard to surprise me but My Adventures With Superman

keeps  finding new and interesting twists to long standing Superman mythology.  

 

And if you told me a couple of years ago the voice of Boimler on Star Trek: Lower Decks might be my favorite version of Superman, I would’ve scoffed in your general direction (“Scoff! Scoff! I say, scoff!”) but damn if Jack Quaid might indeed be my favorite Superman. 

Next week, Snowpiercer is back.

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.   

We're Not Going Back

When I sat down on Saturday to write my political post for Monday, I could not help but wonder if I was tempting fate.

Two weeks ago I had a post ready to go but what the hell! Donald Trump got shot at?!?! 

One week ago I had a post ready to go only to have Joe Biden step down as a candidate for President.  

Kamala, we love you, we need you, you are awesome. Please stay safe.

So far Vice President Kamala Harris has owned the spotlight as the new presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party. 

I have to say "presumptive" as the Democratic National Convention has not formalized her as the the nominee.  The actual convention is not until August 19th but the party is looking at a virtual roll call for the first week of August to make this the real thing.

In the short week since Joe Biden stepped down as a candidate, Kamala Harris' campaign has gone from zero to sixty in nothing flat. 

Harris raised $100 million in less than one week, the most of any candidate for President in that time frame. And that's on top of the sizeable war chest she inherited from the Biden/Harris campaign. 

In a few short days, polling is heading in Kamala's direction.  Various polls that had Biden behind Trump now show Harris in the lead, tied or not quite as far behind. 

And she's just getting started.  

Kamala Harris has adopted some key messaging to get in front and frame the choice between her and Donald Trump.

Harris is referencing her time as a prosecutor who put people in jail for committing crimes like the ones Trump has been accused of, indicted for and convicted for. She's cast herself as "the prosecutor vs. the convicted felon."  

At a rally, Donald Trump tried to make fun of this approach, "They're saying she's the prosecutor and I'm a convicted felon."

Within hours, up went this campaign ad:

Donald Trump: "She's the prosecutor and I'm a convicted felon."

Kamala Harris: "I approved this message!"

Damn, girl! You go! 

In a speech, Harris cited how much Trump and his party want to regress policies back to the 19th century. "We're not going back!" she declared and her enthusiastic audience began to chant it back to her.

"We're not going back!"

"We're not going back!"

"We're not going back!"

Within hours, you could buy "We're not going back!" t-shirts online.

The enthusiasm level for Kamala Harris is stratospheric leaving Trump supporters flummoxed on ways to attack her.

OK, here's one: Kamala Harris never submitted to unprotected hetero-normative intercourse for successful impregnation by male spermatozoa.  

Translation: Kamala never got knocked up with her own biological child.  

OK, what Handmaid's Tale bullshit is that? 

Donald Trump's VP JD Vance thinks that women of reproductive age who do not in fact reproduce are not living full and happy lives and do not contribute fully to American society. These crazy cat ladies lead sad and unfulfilled lives.

Within hours of this becoming public knowledge, you could buy "Crazy Cat Ladies For Kamala" t-shirts online.   

One right wing researcher found a clip of Kamala Harris saying, "What? Did you just fall out of a coconut tree?" then having a hearty laugh about that. 

The clip was meant to embarrass the Vice President and make her look foolish.

The entire clip reveals Kamala is quoting her grandmother and it's meant to convey that we are who we are because of family, our friends, our community.  

You can go online and buy a "Did you just fall out of a coconut tree? Vote Kamala for President 2024" t-shirt.  

The right wing nut cases in the Republican Trump Party just can't make a punch land. 

The old boy himself has chickened out of the 2nd Presidential debate. 

As Pete Buttigieg said, "Trump just a big coward." 

Meanwhile, speaking of that "big coward", here's some stupid shit he said on Saturday while speaking to a group of alleged Christians:   “You won’t have to do it anymore — four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore. You’ve got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote.”

Your guess is as good as mine as to what the fuck he's talking about but whatever that guess is, it ain't good. 

We cannot, must NOT let this morally deficient, intellectually limited, sexual assaulting, empathy deprived, incoherent convicted felon anywhere near the White House again.

"We're not going back!"

"We're not going back!"

"We're not going back!"

The Olympics In Paris

As is her want, Andrea wanted to watch the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. 

Every time there's an Olympics, Winter or Summer, she wants to watch the opening ceremony.

I don't know why and I don't think she knows either. It's just something she does. 

And dang it, I wound up watching with her.   

Instead of taking place in a giant cavernous arena, Paris opted to have it's big Olympic part alfresco. 

That means outdoors.

The venue for the Paris Opening Ceremony would be Paris itself.

The Parade of Athletes would take place on a parade of boats moseying up the river Seine.   

In the rain.

Yep! The heavens opened up and it rained on their parade. 

A lot. 

But the athletes on the boats were smiling and waving and having a good old time.

Despite the rain. 

And the streets along the Seine were filled with spectators also defying the rain and cheering on the athletes as they passed. 

Along the course of the river, there was entertainment.  

Lady Gaga kicked off things  with a performance of Zizi Jeanmaire's  “Mon Truc en Plumes" (“My Thing with Feathers”) in French.  

Wait! Is Lady Gaga French? 

Nope! Good ol' American is our Lady of the Gaga with an Italian heritage.  

So why Lady Gaga? Here's what she said:  “Although I am not a French artist, I have always felt a very special connection with French people and singing French music."  

Well, Lady Gaga FEELS French so that should count for something, right?  

Oh, don't forget the feathers!  

“We rented pom poms from Le Lido archive — a real French cabaret theater.  We collaborated with Dior to create custom costumes, using naturally molted feathers.”

We got a film segment of Minions in a submarine in the Seine.

Why Minions?

The creators of the Minions is Illumination Studios, a French animated feature production company.

It’s also a division of Universal Pictures, which is a unit of NBCUniversal which owns NBC who handles exclusive American broadcasting coverage of the Olympics.

So there! 

That's why Minions.

The floating Parade of Athletes continued to inexorably float on until we go to the large boat carrying Team USA featuring 594 athletes from 46 states.

'MERICA!! HELL YEAH!!!

Not that the USA boat was a surprise.  While boats floated about with athletes from countries that were not the United States (Wait! Was that Belize?), NBC kept cutting away to interview people on the USA boat where the rain soaked athletes repeatedly assured us they were having a good time. 

'MERICA!! HELL YEAH!!!

After the parade of athletes ended, French singer-songwriter Juliette Armanet performed a touching rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine” while sailing down the Seine on a boat carrying her and a flaming piano played by Sofiane Pamart.

Wait! Did that say "flaming piano"?  

Yep! That piano is on fire.

A person in an armor suit rode in on horseback carrying the Olympic flag as flags from other nations waved in the background. 

The Radio France Choir and French National Orchestra performed the Olympic anthem. The music swelled in epic fashion as the flag was hoisted aloft... upside down. 

Things are coming to a head now as it's time to light 'em up!

The Eiffel Tower becomes the world's biggest glow stick in like ever!  

Throughout the show, we followed the journey of a hooded figure carrying the Olympic torch, leaping and bounding across Parisian rooftops like Batman or something. 

Who is this guy supposed to be? Apparently it was supposed to be a nod to “The Phantom of the Opera" maybe?  

It's time for the long running passing of the torch to reach the culmination of it's journey to light the Olympic cauldron.

Which is attached to a giant hot air balloon.

Oh my God! The cauldron is flying over Paris!!

Will it rain flaming death on the city below? This can't be safe!

Settle down! The giant cauldron of FIRE hovering over Paris seems to be fine.

Back at the Eiffel Tower, it's time for a big ol' piece de resistance with Celine Dion in her first performance since announcing her diagnosis of a rare neurological disorder in 2022. She was positioned on a platform partway up the lighted Eiffel Tower and beneath glowing Olympic rings.

Shimmering in a silver gown like a veritable angel, Celine delivered a stirring rendition of “L’hymne à l’amour,” a song co-written by French singer Édith Piaf.  

Celine's neurological condition makes singing difficult, even painful.  But on this night, she was in fine voice and delivered a spectacular finis to the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics. 

The Paris Olympic Committee made some rather odd choices for this opening by having these festivities spread out over so much of Paris. But hey, Paris is a beautiful city so who can blamed them for wanting to show off a bit.  

Even through a downpour of rain. 

It was weird and strange but no one can deny this Opening Ceremony was memorable.  

Dave-El's Weekend Movie Post: IF

So this edition of Dave-El’s Weekend Movie Post is about a very recent movie released in theaters in May of this year.  

 IF is a fantasy comedy film written and directed by John Krasinski.

 

Some spoilers along the way.  

 

“IF” is short for “imaginary friend” and the story is about what happens to IFs when the kid who imagined them into existence grows up.  

 

Our story’s focus is on Bea, a 12 year old girl staying with her grandmother Margaret while her dad is in the hospital awaiting heard surgery. It’s the same hospital where her mother died of cancer years before. She may only be 12 years old but she is quick to remind anyone that she is not a kid anymore.  Well, with one parent dead and another one who might die, it’s enough to make a 12 year feel older than their years.

 

Then weird stuff starts to happen. 

 

Bea sees some strange creatures lurking about: a large shapeless purple furball, something that looks like a butterfly.  Bea tracks them to an apartment above where her grandmother lives. The furball (Blue*) and the butterfly (Blossom) live with a dude named Cal. They are IFs, imaginary friends created by kids who have now grown up and no longer need them. 

 

*Yes, the furball is purple. Turns out his kid was color blind.    

 

Cal is working with Ifs to place them with new children as their original children have grown up and forgotten them.  

 

Bea agrees to help them. 

 

Cal takes Bea to Memory Lane Retirement Home, a retirement community for IFs housed underneath a swing ride in Coney Island. Here Bea meets even more IFs. It is here that Bea looks to change Cal’s mission, from placing IFs with new children to reuniting them with the people who imagined them into existence in the first place. 

 

Bea has an opportunity to test this idea with her grandmother.  Bea finds a picture of Margaret as a young dancer and recognizes Blossom in the background of the picture. Blossom was her grandmother's IF.  Playing one of her grandmother's records inspires Margaret to dance and she remembers Blossom. Both Margaret and Blossom began to glow from the memory. 

 

Bea finds Jeremy who originally dreamed up Blue. Now a grown man, he’s about to make a major business presentation and he’s nervous as hell.  Triggering a sense memory (a nearby box of freshly baked croissants), Jeremy remembers Blue and is filled with confidence as he enters the meeting. 

 

Then things go pear shaped for Bea’s dad.  Followed by a virtual army of IFs, Bea rushes to her dad’s hospital room where he is unconscious.  Holding his hand, Bea tells her father a story about how she was pushing herself to act like a grown-up when she is just a child who still needs her father.

 

He wakes up and they hug each other.

 

When Bea goes outside his hospital room, all of the IFs who followed her are gone.

 

The apartment above her grandmother’s is not an apartment but a storage room. 

 

Later when her dad is released from the hospital and Bea is getting ready to go back home, she comes across a old crayon drawing her mother, her father, herself and a clown she called… “Calvin”.

 

Cal was her IF all along! 

 

Bea rushes upstairs and the storage room is now an apartment once more populated by IFs including Cal who welcomes her with open arms.  

 

Awww!  

 

The film ends with scenes of Cal reuniting other IFs with their now grown up creators. 

IF is a sweet movie with an imaginative concept but I can see why the film did not find an audience when it was in theaters this spring.  Yeah, it seems like it's made for kids with with the colorful odd IFs running around but other than those visuals there is not a lot to engage kids. 

It seems the crux of the movie is aimed squarely at those adults who are nostalgic for the innocent magic of childhood imagination. There is a certain melancholy that hangs over the film.  

Of course that's understandable as Bea who has lost one parent must cope with the possibility of losing another one.  Melancholy is built into the movie's DNA, despite the otherwise whimsical premise.  

 

 IF exists in some ethereal realm between a kid's movie and a film for grown ups.  I think IF is a good movie for what it is even if we're not quite sure what exactly it is.  

Ryan Reynolds plays Cal in IF and he's back in theaters again this weekend with Deadpool and Wolverine.  

Which I won't be seeing. 

It's not really Andrea's thing and I don't want to see it alone.

Maybe if I bring my IF.

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Movies? I've seen a lot of them and I will be back with another Dave-El's Weekend Movie Post next Saturday.

Meanwhile, remember  to be good to one another.   

Your Friday Video Link: Bob Newhart

This week, Your Friday Video Link is more accurately Your Friday Video Links as we acknowledge the great comedian Bob Newhart who passed away last week.  

Your Friday Video Link #1  

Bob Newhart accepting his Mark Twain prize in 2002.  

When I was a kid watching The Bob Newhart Show, I wanted to live Bob Hartley's life.  

Growing up in a small rural southern town, I wanted nothing more than the big city life of Bob Hartley, putting on his London Fog overcoat, leaving his high rise office, taking the train to his high rise apartment to be greeted by Suzanne Pleshette.  

THIS is what I wanted out of life when I grew up.

I did not get it.

Your Friday Video Link #2

The opening of theme of The Bob Newhart Show.   

Bob Newhart's classic comedy routines used the one side conversation with deadpan descriptions of what is going on with listeners imagining what the hell is going with the other side of that discussion.

Your Friday Video Link #3

This routine is from Bob's observations of Chicago bus drivers  in a bit called Bus Driver Training.  

Bob Newhart struck sitcom gold a 2nd time with the series called Newhart which starred Bob as a New England innkeeper surrounded by a very strange community of characters.

Such as the backwoodsman Larry and his brother Darryl and his other brother Darryl.

Your Friday Video Link #4

Newhart  ends with the inn caught in the middle of a golf course development when Bob's character is beaned by a golf ball.

When he comes to for the series' final scene, what we get is considered one of the best series finales of all time.  

 

Your Friday Video Link #5

Bob Newhart won over a new generation of fans in the movie Elf.   

For all his success in prime time TV, winning an Emmy eluded Bob Newhart until.....

Your Friday Video Link #6

Bob won an Emmy in 2013 for his role on Big Bang Theory.  

Your Friday Video Link #7

It's the 2019 Emmys and Bob threatens to kick Ben Stiller's ass  

Bob  Newhart was a class act and a great comedic talent and he will be missed.  

Biden Abides

Andrea and I gathered on the sofa here in the Fortress of Ineptitude at 8:00 PM Eastern and watched as President Joe Biden made his address to the nation from the Resolute Desk in the White House Oval Office.

It was his first public address since he announced on Sunday he was no longer running for re-election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place on the ticket. 

During his speech, he extolled the virtues of Harris: "She is experienced, she’s tough, she’s capable. She’s been an incredible partner to me and a leader for our country.”

Biden reflected on this time in office and all that his administration has accomplished and all that he still hopes to get done in his 6 remaining months in office.   

And he spoke of his concerns for the future, the fate of our democracy.  “The defense of democracy is more important than any title. I draw strength, and find joy, in working for the American people. But this sacred task of perfecting our union is not about me. It’s about you. Your families. Your futures. It’s about ‘We the People.’”

Biden's speech was heartfelt and epitomized why he has been such a devoted and beloved public servant for over 50 years. It's a shame in the match up between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, it is the better man who has stepped down. 

But it seems that it is right decision. The sheer amount of energy and enthusiasm around Kamala Harris is just astonishing and I am daring to feel there might actually be... hope for our future. 

That maybe, just maybe the morally deficient, intellectually limited, sexual assaulting, empathy deprived, incoherent convicted felon will not recover the levers of power over our government and our nation. 

That just cannot happen. 

Thanks to Joe Biden's sacrifice of his own ego and the powerful launch of Kamala Harris' campaign, I think we have a fighting chance that will not happen. 

And that government of the people, by the people and for the people will not perish from this Earth.  

The Changing of the Guard

It’s been a few days since President Joe Biden cited he would not see the Democratic Party nomination for a second term as President.

 

And he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the new party nominee.

 

So how we feeling so far?

 

Pretty good, I think.

 

As I write this, nothing is a done deal. 

• The party still needs to make Kamala Harris the official nominee.
• She will need to pick a running mate.
• She needs to hit the campaign trail as the front of the ticket.
• And there is the little matter of an actual election in November to win.

 

But…

 

• Within an hour of Biden’s announcement and endorsement, other Democratic congress people began echoing the refrain of endorsing Harris for President.  The PAC ActBlue raised over $80 million in less than 24 hours on the strength of Harris being the nominee. 
• And the money continues to flow in.  
• The options for running mate look good with North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro just 2 of the prospects.
• Harris was already out there in support of the Biden/Harris ticket to supportive audiences.  The campaign apparatus is in place, the only difference is she's in charge.
• Her first rally in Wisconsin as a Presidential candidate was a barn burner of a speech. 
• Early polling looks favorable for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.  

 

Again, nothing is a done deal but for the first time in a long time, I am a bit less fearful about the future and we have I think a better chance at defeating that big orange morally deficient, intellectually limited, sexual assaulting, empathy deprived, incoherent convicted felon at the polls come November.  

Dare I feel hopeful that we are not fucked?  

Tuesday TV Touchbase: Classic Night Court and Other Things

 

Andrea and I are continuing our sampling of the original Night Court in lieu of the usual ubiquitous reruns of Big Bang Theory.

 

Revisiting the original series is a brutal reminder of how unfunny the new version of Night Court is.  

 

Not that the original series was always hitting on all cylinders.  The first couple of seasons struggled to find the show’s voice and tone not to mention an unstable cast.  It wasn’t until season 3 that Markie Post was able to commit to being a regular as defense attorney Christine Sullivan.

 

And season 9 was just, well, not good.

 

The series was supposed to wrap with season 8 and the writers wrote finis to the “will they or won’t they” between Harry and Christine (they will and they did) and greedy, ambitious Dan Fielding is reduced to a homeless person scrounging for tin cans for cash.

 

Then NBC decided at the last minute that they did want 9th season of Night Court after all resulting in a scramble at the start of the season (with a parody of Phantom Of the Opera with Dan as “the Phantom of the Courthouse”) to restore the status quo. 

 

And the rest of season 9 played down to everyone’s worst attributes.  “Flanderization” at it’s worst. Yeah, Bull Shannon is dumb but THAT DUMB?

 

Still, it’s been more fun than not to revisit this show.

 

 

We’re almost to the end of my re-watch of The Orville.  Andrea has really taken to this show and she’s going to be sad I know when we hit what appears to be the last episode ever of this series.

 

Andrea has become a fan of Seth McFarlane as a singer and likes to explore You Tube videos of Seth performing classic show tunes. 

Since we are over on Disney+/Hulu anyway, we usually pair up an Orville with an episode or 2 of Gravity Falls.  We've got about 6 stories to go to finish up season 2. 

Yes, I do enjoy watching Gravity Falls even though I have a bad habit of falling asleep while watching.  No reflection on the show, it's just I'm old and we're watching them too late in the evening.  

 

I’ve also looped Andrea in for Dead Boy Detectives which she seems to enjoy despite the occasional gruesomeness.  Look, she’ll put up with stuff to follow a Neil Gaiman creation anywhere.

 

I’ve also started a re-watch of Arrested Development and Andrea is really getting into this show as well. She really likes the Ron Howard narration.

 The re-watch will stop at the end of season 3. Seasons 4 and 5 were just… so… bad. 

 

 

Not everything I introduce Andrea to takes hold. I showed her the first episode of Vicious. Her response to a 2nd episode was “No thanks.”

 

What pray tell is Vicious?   It is a British sitcom that ran for a couple of seasons and a couple of specials from 2013 to 2016.  It stars Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as Freddie and Stuart, an old gay couple who have been together for 48 years and counting. Freddie is an occasionally working actor whose biggest credit was playing a villain on an episode of Doctor Who.  Stuart is a former bar owner who takes care of things around the house. 

 

The show earns it’s title from the constant barrage of sharpened barbs that Freddie and Stuart toss around at anyone in the vicinity and each other. The first episode does see Freddie lean hard into some very cruel vitriol aimed in Stuart’s direction which is probably what put Andrea off on watching this further. Videos from the series appear on my Tik Tok feed and it does seem that we do get some more insight into why these two have been together for 5 decades and they do have genuine affection for each other.  

But Andrea said no so I am on my own with this one. 

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Next week, some other TV stuff I'm watching.

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.