ignominia-1

What an amazing series this is! I just finished the last episode and I want to start allover again. It was complex and profound, you felt for all characters even the bad ones (except the unsufferable managing director). It was not easy to follow the complex actions and second guessing that was going on but the writing eventually revealed the plot so one could relax and see the story unfold. The main story circled around a few characters but spiralled outward to include and reveal more and more people, never losing the main plot but giving you a better feeling for the community they formed, at work, at play, in families and friendships. Really a great series, beautifully paced, acted and filmed. I will miss them.

It is painful to watch you write? There are much worse things to watch than this show. Boring predictable sitcoms and rom-coms, Action flicks (yawn) and violent scary thrillers give ME pain. This series dares to tell stories in a different way, very subtly and creatively. For example episode 6, ends with someone telling someone else that they did not care for their success and behaved discouragingly. End of Episode and non one defended their actions. Then you have Episode 7 goes into a parallel universe of possibilities in which tucked in a corner there is the defending argument missing in Ep. 6. Because men have their way to explain, or some men do.

I am disappointed with the low rating, it deserves more, but if it is painful because too close to home, then the show is doing a perfect job. Thanks JGL, I am a fan of your work!

Heart of a Dog, a movie by Laurie Anderson is one of the most nourishing movies I have seen in a long while. I loved her drawings, the abstract and nostalgic imagery and mostly her storytelling voice. The film content - love, memory and mostly loss - filled a personal need for intensity that only few other art works, books, and movies, have been able to do. At times my emotions could barely stand absorbing what I could only call its beauty. Laurie should have just been a story teller, all the other trickery she has used through time distract from the real source of her art. Of course if the viewer expect a story about dogs, this is not the movie for them, but I can list HoaD to very few other movies that seem to be about nothing and they are about everything.