things I've watched on that fancy rectangle

( faces on film )

Anyway. Speaking of movies, I haven't yet succumbed to the lures of an HBO Max subscription, even for Wonder Woman 1984. Maybe in a few weeks... it's just really hard to get excited about paying a subscription for another video-on-demand service. I miss the movie experience. (Yes, I'm aware I could have gone to the movie theater to watch it. No, I'm not planning to do that until after there are a lot more people vaccinated for COVID, including myself.)

I watched the first two episode of Bridgerton on Netflix. It's very much a Shonda Rhimes romp: racism is erased, classism and sexism are not. People are pretty, the writing is clever, the costumes are eye-catching. It's frothy, dramatic fun. And then the final stroke of the first episode had me literally cackling with glee. I normally don't think of myself as someone who cares about certain tropes, but when executed well... ( cut for an ep 1 spoiler )

Episode one threw in a couple of random sex scenes; episode two refrained and gave us shirtless men boxing instead. Normally I'm not a fan, but the boxing wasn't filmed to be brutal; it was filmed to frame two incredibly gorgeous shirtless men, so... *shrugs* Alrighty, then. Eye-candy appreciation engaged.