THE LADY’S’ COMPANION is a 2025 Netflix eight part series. It might be described as a Spanish period romantic comedy set in what looks like it might be late 19th Century Madrid. It features an occasionally witty script interspersed with narration with asides to the audience from the main character, Elena Bianda (played by Nadia …
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THE RESIDENCE
The Residence is a 2025 eight part Netflix mini-series created by Shondaland productions. It’s described as a comedy/mystery/drama and stars Uzo Aduba as consulting detective Cordellia Cup. Cordellia is in the Sherlock Holmes tradition of detectives - similar methodology but differing perhaps in that she has an obsession with birding rather than playing the violin. …
THE SKY IS NO LONGER THE LIMIT
Do you wake up every morning dreading what horrible or idiotic thing HE is going to do today? Are you tired of your daily diet of news that seems to be obsessed with covering every drooling pronouncement from HIM? Is it increasingly difficult to believe that supposedly sane people cheer and celebrate HIM, no matter …
WHERE’S THE NEAREST CLIFF?
Lemmings got a bad rap. Legions of people think the cute, furry little rodents have an instinct for self-destruction, throwing themselves, on mass, over cliffs when their populations get too large. This bogus belief began as a result of a Disney wildlife film called ‘White Wilderness’ made in 1958. The film has a scene with …
THE PHOENIX CROWN BY KATIE QUINN AND JANIE CHANG
THE PHOENIX CROWN by KATIE QUINN AND JANIE CHANG - HarperCollins, 2024 - Yes, I’m now moved and working my way through a mountain of boxes. The move left little time to reflect on Kanadoodle’s election so, rather than dwell on politics, I’ll recommend a good book instead - much more interesting… San Francisco. In …
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