Catherine Dorum
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If you liked Mad Men, you will love The Queen's Gambit, and here's why:
When Mad Men came out in the summer of 2007, it sent shock waves through television as we knew it. It spurred a love affair with mid-century style and design, showcased an engaging new ensemble of actors and characters, and introduced a mysterious but fresh narrative where nebulous story lines were slowly revealed but never spelled out. Similarly to what Sex and the City did for HBO, it put AMC on the map. AMC became the first cable station ever to earn the coveted Emmy for an Outstanding Drama series. Now, in 2021, we are firmly ensconced within a major renaissance of television: There is incredible diversity of storytelling both in terms of subject matter and series formats to choose from. That said, if you enjoyed Mad Men over the course of its thought-provoking, confusing yet captivating, seven-year run on AMC, you should give the limited Netflix series, The Queen’s Gambit, a shot.
By Catherine Dorum3 years ago in Geeks
It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I (will) feel fine)
There is a sense of hope moving out of this particular winter towards spring, from illness and painful loss, from suffering to relief. From quarantine and social distance to shots in arms and to schools and workplaces reopening. A new year, a new season, this spring, feels like a chance to heal. It is a time to look forward with cautious optimism and gratitude for the blessings we do hold. But, a year into the pandemic, it is hard to imagine what life was like before. In retrospect, it feels somehow like the pandemic was inevitable in a way. Like we should have known this was bound to happen, all the doom and the gloom that we all have been living through. No matter one's personal politics and specific sense of exactly what is wrong with the status quo, why is so easy for us as humans, to suspect that the world is falling apart? That the sky is falling?
By Catherine Dorum3 years ago in Humans