Movie: Palindromes (2004)

I first watched this movie at least 15 to 20 years ago. I suspect I watched it on Palm Pictures channel, which is where I caught a lot of obscure and weird movies at the time. I enjoyed it’s oddness and quirkiness. I enjoyed the fact that the same character is played by a collection of actors. Aviva, a girl, you never know how old she is, decides she wants a child/children because she always wants to have someone to love and she thinks a baby is the way to go. So, when she gets a little older, she goes about trying to getting pregnant, runs away, and in the process encounters people in different extremes of functional-disfunction. Re-Watching this today, in this post Roe v. Wade world, with so many battles over the right to an abortion, how social media has affected the mental health of teens, the ultra conservative movement’s success, Palindromes is perfectly appropriate for 2023. Seeing Aviva played by six different girls, different ages, races and sizes, is so affective and disturbing.
“People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes. They think they do, but they don’t.” -Mark, not a pedophile.

TV: Cedar Cove Seasons 1 and 2

Cedar Cove is a Hallmark Channel series that centers on a County judge and her friends in a small coastal northwestern town. Cheesy and predictable is fine. Sometimes it’s exactly what you need. So season 1 is fine. Nothing great about it. Season 2 started off fine, but then it turned into a commercial for Jimmy Dean. The product placement was so blatant, at one point, the camera closes in on a shot of a plate of Jimmy Dean sausage next to the box. No. I do not want to participate in these shenanigan.

I watched Season 1 with a free preview through Amazon. I checked out Season 2 on DVD from the local library. 

TV: Sanditon Seasons 1-3 2019-2023

Jane Austen’s unfinished book was brought to the screen and completed in this three season light drama. Ms. Charlotte Heywood, an ingenious and out-spoken farmer’s daughter, visits Sanditon, an up and coming seaside resort town and becomes entwined in the lives of the key players, including visionaries and investors in the town and a rich heiress who’s the daughter of a plantation owner and his slave. Along the way, Ms. Heywood (and everyone else!) finds, looses and finds again romance and love. The show wraps up a little too perfectly and a little too modern, but obviously still worth watching. Andrew Davies, the writer/producer of some excellent British series, is responsible for the quality acting, writing, and production that make Sanditon an enjoyable and fulfilling watch.
I watched this on PBS Passport.