The crash; Should I marry a murderer?
Karin returned to the office after a week’s vacation. I am at home with the boys – including Samuel, who has been puking – and with the three cats.
“School of Hard Knocks” Dory still fights with Ziva and Jasper. We worry for her permanency in our house.
She is gentle with humans, only occasionally biting them (in self-defense).
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Two noteworthy Netflix docs:
(a) The Crash
(b) Should I Marry a Murderer?
I don’t often look at Instagram or TikTok, so these two shows were something of a revelation for me.
Text messaging has for some time been a staple exhibit of the true-crime genre. (See, e.g., Lover Stalker Killer.) But, to my knowledge, only in the last year or so have documentarians made much of compulsive video posting.
The first show’s protagonist is a villain. The other show’s protagonist is a victim/witness. The former is a teenager just out of school; the latter is a thirty-ish professional – a forensic pathologist (!).
It’s the teen who’s coldly calculating. The corpse dissector is warm-hearted, loyalty-torn, and ultimately heroic.
What they have in common is, they’re always posting video.
And, in the footage they post, using drugs.
(Each program goes to some length to explain that its protagonist’s drug use doesn’t affect the outcome.)
Both protagonists have unconditionally supportive parents, for better or for worse.
One show is as chilling as can be; the other is almost heartwarming. I recommend them both.
“School of Hard Knocks” Dory still fights with Ziva and Jasper. We worry for her permanency in our house.
She is gentle with humans, only occasionally biting them (in self-defense).
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Two noteworthy Netflix docs:
(a) The Crash
(b) Should I Marry a Murderer?
I don’t often look at Instagram or TikTok, so these two shows were something of a revelation for me.
Text messaging has for some time been a staple exhibit of the true-crime genre. (See, e.g., Lover Stalker Killer.) But, to my knowledge, only in the last year or so have documentarians made much of compulsive video posting.
The first show’s protagonist is a villain. The other show’s protagonist is a victim/witness. The former is a teenager just out of school; the latter is a thirty-ish professional – a forensic pathologist (!).
It’s the teen who’s coldly calculating. The corpse dissector is warm-hearted, loyalty-torn, and ultimately heroic.
What they have in common is, they’re always posting video.
And, in the footage they post, using drugs.
(Each program goes to some length to explain that its protagonist’s drug use doesn’t affect the outcome.)
Both protagonists have unconditionally supportive parents, for better or for worse.
One show is as chilling as can be; the other is almost heartwarming. I recommend them both.