11/20/19 - Let's Get Going
Here’s how I think this is going to work! I'm going to aim to send out a newsletter every other week? Maybe on Mondays because I don’t have any podcasts that come out that day so I’m bored. It will contain 1-3 things that I want to recommend to you, plus probably other features like things I don’t recommend, or things that other people have recommended to me but I haven’t watched because I’m “busy” (a bad friend). Please note that the recommendations will in no way be topical or novel - for example, I’m watching Golden Girls right now, you should watch it too, but I obviously do not think you’ve never heard of it or that it’s the hot new thing!
Anyways, let’s dive in! I have at least 3 recs already bubbling up inside of me, and I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to get them all out in this post (issue? episode? installment?) or wisely ration them to use in weeks when I am uninspired. In the words of Alex Trebek, let’s start finding out.
Thing: Tuca and Bertie
What it is and where you can find it: show, on Netflix
As with so many other things, I felt calmly positive about this show until I recommended it to someone and then they expressed even the smallest amount of ambivalence. Then I loved it, and it was “really important to me,” and my bitterness towards its premature cancellation clouded my enjoyment of all other similar shows (looking at you, Bojack Horseman). But it’s true! This show is really important to me. Its cancellation does make me bitter! I watched it twice when it came out, and a third time this past weekend. I think it is both funnier and sadder than Bojack, and so much more personally relevant (I hate to say it, but it really sort of is ~*the girl version*~). It’s about adult (bird) woman friendships and relationships and work and money and sex and bodies and health. Nicole Byer voices like 10 characters including a file cabinet. There’s a speechless plant woman named Draca who lounges around her home topless, smoking weed, surrounded by turtles. At one point, Bertie’s boob jumps off her chest and runs away in exasperation and truly whomst among us cannot relate?
There’s 10 episodes, 25 min each, the perfect length for a single day binge. It’s very sad, weird, silly, and great! If you don’t like it, you hate (bird) women.
Let’s just do one rec for today, and call this a preview. I’ll send the next newsletter out on Monday around lunch time, and begin the every other week schedule from there!
okay, love you, bye
Ali