Well, dear readers, I shall not sit here like so much fish and pontificate on the loathsome and hideous remake of Dead Ringers because I posted about it at length on the discussion board. I shall just sit here like so much fish and say that it is ineptly written (by several writers, but blame the woman who adapted it), filled with horrible dialogue and an F word every ten seconds rendering it completely meaningless, with a terrible use of songs that tell us what the characters are experiencing (this practice has to go), a terrible score, and on and on and on. The gender switch is ludicrous because it negates everything that worked about the David Cronenberg original, which is based on actual gynecologist twins. It is rubbish from start to finish. Six HOURS of rubbish Of course, it got quite a few raves from so-called TV critics who’ve probably never seen the Cronenberg, but it also got some very bad and very accurate reviews. It adds so much padding and unnecessary characters and plot strands that by episode three it’s become completely incoherent. It is gratuitously nauseating, with graphic scenes of miscarriages, C-sections, birth, you name it, they throw it in. Cronenberg tells his story in under two hours and it never loses sight of what it’s about. By episode five, I wanted to flush it down the drain, and by episode six I simply wanted to go slap all these people silly. A complete waste of time and highly NOT recommended by the likes of me. Oh, I guess I did pontificate a bit but this dreck is everything that’s wrong with these limited series – they all look the same, sound the same, and basically ARE the same, no matter the genre. It left such a bad taste in my mouth that I simply had to eat a frozen waffle with syrup. Anyway, now I must speed through the rest of the notes for she of the Evil Eye will be here all too soon.
Yesterday was okay. I only got maybe five hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails, did Sami stuff, shaved and showered and then moseyed on over to the Blue Jam Café in Calabasas (just a hop and a skip away from the Staitman residence), where I met David Wechter for our first in-person meal since a year before the pandemic It was fun to catch up I had a pretty good Cobb salad and he had some vegan wrap thing. I was worried about the freeway coming home, even though we did finish at two-fifteen, but he looked on some app and it said twenty-four minutes, despite some slowness here and there. So, I decided to chance it and glad I did – the trip there took thirty minutes. The trip home? Sixteen minutes. I stopped at Ralph’s and got stuff for she of the Evil Eye and then came home.
I checked on the Sami pages here and elsewhere. As of the posting of these here notes, we’re a mere twenty-four hours away, which is better than being twenty-four hours from Tulsa. Then I finished watching you-know-what.
Today, I’ll be up by eight-thirty and out the door by nine. I’ll go have a nice breakfast somewhere, then get to the mail place, then do stuff, then come home. We’ll do our final Sami push and then I’ll just relax until we go live at 12:01, which is when it should go live. Now, to reiterate what must be reiterated: I would love it if all you dear readers and dear lurkers would watch it and then write an Amazon review. That is what helps the algorithms and makes Amazon love us. It is VERY important to do this. I’d recommend binging the show – all ten episodes will take you about two hours and eight minutes. But whether you binge or just watch a few episodes, do the review as soon as you can and you can always update it if you finish the rest of the episodes later in the day or evening This is hugely important to us. We all can’t wait for people to watch the fruit of our labors. Here are the direct links to the Amazon page, but it won’t be live until 12:01, one small minute after midnight.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6GRK789
Tomorrow, I’ll be monitoring the Sami series all day and night. I’ll even binge it myself and watch it for the first time on my big-boy TV, which will be FUN. I may invite a few people over, but we’ll have to see about that. A viewing partay would be fun. The rest of the week will be book stuff, and then on Thursday we’re casting this workshop of a new play I’m directing and have been shepherding along. And then we’d go right into rehearsal on May 2.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eight-thirty and out the door by nine, have a breakfast, hopefully pick up stuff at the mail place, do a few things, and then come home and do our final Sami push and getting the information out about the reviews and putting the link up. Then I’ll watch, listen, and relax until 12:01 at which time we hope Sami will go live. They don’t actually give you a time, just that it goes live on April 23, which, to me, means 12:01. Today’s topic of discussion: How many of you will be able to watch Sami on day or evening one? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, so thrilled that we finally get to unveil Sami.