Because social media was cooing about baby Yoda. (When did Disney grow up? What brought the change from Bambi to Mandalorian? Time to confess here: I resisted watching Mandalorian week after week because I thought it would be lame. The show? Mare Of Easttown on DisneyPlusHotstar. The bad guy got badder and badder, and his end was extremely satisfying.īefore I go down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos of the actors and their personal lives, let me tell you about how I’ve loved an older Kate Winslet who plays grandma with such fabulousness, Guy Pearce as well as Evan Peters want her. I loved, loved the action and how the character arcs changed, not just for the principal characters, and the good guys, but even for the villains. The story does take over the odd characters living in the building. I personally don’t like slapstick comedy much, but I adjusted, and thankfully there isn’t too much of it. We watched each of the 20 episodes (every episode an hour long) surrounding ourselves with flasks of tea and coffee and ramen. We waited for Vincenzo to drop every week religiously (a designated friend would ping us all when it did). For those who still haven’t seen or know what Vincenzo is, here is the trailer: So obsessive that I joined not one but two WhatsApp groups: one just fangirling and the other discussing possible plot twists and whether he enunciated Italian words correctly. I started learning how to cook Korean food (follow Emily Kim or Maangchi on YouTube!) and ordered Gochugaru (Korean mirchi paste, a little like the Marathi Thecha) from Amazon. (And I pride myself for being immune to impulse-buying makeup.) I looked online for the dual tone lipstick the heroine Jeon Yeo-been uses in the show. How can anyone compare Chor Machaye Shor (2002) to the awesome Korean show Vincenzo? A show that everyone I know was watching obsessively. ‘What?!’ I spew chai out of my nose and search for the movie. The bestie on the other end of the phone, ‘Bobby Deol already reprised this role.’ “How hawt is this Song Joong-ki!’ I gushed over the phone, telling my bestie the story outline of Vincenzo on Netflix. And I have a smile plastered on my face every time the bell icon dings on Netflix. How did this happen? Why am I suddenly invested in the lives of an elderly man and a young lad who want to learn ballet (Navillera) even though I have watched the brilliant Sooni Taraporewala film called Yeh Ballet? What pleasure do my friends derive by being fascinated by the lives of bitchy friends (Real Housewives) in Beverly Hills or Manhattan? I never thought I’d say it, but this pandemic has turned us all into our TV-watching mums. And suddenly I find myself watching episodic shows on Netflix like ‘them’. We made memes about dads losing remote control rights. We laughed at mums, aunts, grannies watching TV shows, night after night, week after week, knowing channel numbers by rote.
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