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Resuming here at the encouragement/validation of the ole' rat. I had no idea whether he started talking about my blog in a genuine fashion, but it resulted in resolves that I can forthright fulfill. Doing that now.
2019 stands out as the year when I totally quit the tradition of blogging. Not a single post. I did get to a draft, though, which could now see life.
Not that I quit the writing altogether - just that paper medium has become the default goto. If blogging hadn't died and blogging apps had a better interface, probably I'd have continued here. I'm curious if the practice (writing) itself is an earlier generation thing - the popular communication and reach-out mediums of today are multimedia-based, which obviously wins over plain text, but it churns the world to a different paradigm.
During the time of this lockdown, I have been binging on majorly a coupla things
1. Nature
2. Peep Show
Peep Show is fantastic. It came around 10 years back, but only in 2019-2020 did I come to know of it. I got hooked to the snippets on
Youtube, and fell in love with its characters just from those. Jurassic to find it, all episodes worth, on
Netflix, about a month back. Once the lockdown ensued, I had to clip my wings (or fold 'em back in the elytra), and that was useful to get started on the series proper.
It has been a while that I followed any comedy series. I think I live upto the frenzy of following - immersed in the nuances of characters, sets, situations.
Master of None was the latest, that too over a year behind now (reminds that I am not fully done with it and can resume it). To think of something before it, there's
Detectorists,
Little Britain, Californication. And the
The Simpsons loooong before that (albeit I keep going down the Simpsons hole on Youtube often, unprecedented laughter briefly ensues).
All the actors in Peep Show, no matter how little they come around for, are done fantastic. The main ones -
Mark, Jez, Sophie - are stalwarts. (PS: Olivia Coleman, the Sophie, won an Oscar, recently, which tells the caliber of the cast) The rest of em, too are memorable - just to recall them off my memory, there's
Nancy, Big Suze, Elena, Johnson, Big Hans, Debbie, Gerard, Sarah. Enough number of people to attach to as a fan of. Oh, and there's the girl who plays a nurse at the hospital, and has a screen-time of around half a minute,
JA... who I took an immediate fancy to (she turned out to have roots from my subcontinent), who even wins over Mark in their first encounter, which he soliloquizes "I wish you were having my baby".
That show is
Tickety Boo!
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