juanejot

I was humming to myself (as I often do) as I prepared the dogs’ morning meal. The lines “beats that are hard, beats that are funky, beats’ll getcha hooked like a crackhead junkie” flew out of my face, much, I’m sure, to the 🙄 of my kids. So I played the song (“Excursions,” track 1 on A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory), and as I did, the corresponding scene of Station Eleven came flooding back to me.

I’m not much for free advertising. But great show. #DadRap

https://youtu.be/rIC4HG3TiP0

Station Eleven | Excursions | Rap Scene

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Aug 9, 2023 at 7:27pmWeb
Show threadjuanejotAug 9, 2023
This show, from my previous post, may LOOK like a musical. Well, while it does address the NEED for creative self-expression (at times, rather self-effacingly) under ALL circumstances, it is in fact based off of a post-apocalyptic novel of the same name. In fact, my wife suggested it (having read the novel) after we had just finished binging the first season of The Last of Us. I had no idea what to expect, but it wasn’t this. It’s perhaps the best-encapsulated* single-season show I’ve ever seen.
Show threadjuanejotAug 9, 2023
*(By which I mean, there may be other stories in that world to tell. But this one is wrapped up very nicely. Yet I’m still thinking about it, months later.
(Novel by Emily St. John Mandel, “created”/adapted for TV (?) by Patrick Somerville)
#Overselling