We watched this a couple weeks ago on Disney + and I could not believe how deeply it moved me. Hamilton is one of the most incredible pieces of art I have seen in any medium. We watched the play on a television screen, completely removed from the ‘room where it happened’ and it was still unbelievable. The wheels within wheels of meta-representation is staggering. Perhaps the most impactful aspect of the play is the simplest. Telling a white American origin story through the language of hip-hop played exquisitely by black and brown Americans. Lin Manuel Miranda, his original cast and crew are geniuses. The United States can still be a shining light on a hill when our best and brightest produce work like Hamilton.
Thanks for Existing High Maintenance.
Euphoria, 2019
This was a really fucking good t.v. show.
High Maintenance Season 2, Episode 1 : Globo
High Maintenance returned a couple weeks ago (I guess) and I caught up last night. The first episode brought me to tears. It felt like the first piece of work I have seen that captures a cultural moment without defining the proverbial cultural moment. Something bad happens. You never know what it is but we all know what it is. It is the 2016 Election, Sandy Hook, Ferguson, San Bernardino, Orlando, et. al. The episode opens door after door on different people experiencing this day in various ways. It is quintessentially New York. People all over the spectrum living their lives when a tragedy occurs and just dealing with it. The last scene left me with a great sense of hope.
The Good Place.
This show is so awesome. Meta + Fun
