#i dont know anymore

Netflix needs a filter for “I wanna feel good, but I don’t wanna cry about it”.

do any of my UK followers have any experience with child social/protective services?

long story short, my mother is trying to get rid of my little sister (13yo), and apparently rang them

all i can find out is that there will be some kind of assessment to see if my sister counts as a ‘child in need’

So…funny thing.

Today I become one of the Lucky 10,000. Or unlucky, as the case may be.

When I was a kid, I bought my dad The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey.

Look, guys. I don’t know what to tell you. It had a cool, science fiction-y cover (not the one at the link). The book description sounded like a cool dystopian science fiction novel. I don’t know.

In any case, my dad read it. Hethought it was a science fiction novel, too. A bad one. He even said, “I don’t know if this is a series, but I do know that I won’t be buying any more books from this guy.”

I think at some point we gave it away at a bookswap. I mean, we thought it was a bad science fiction novel.

Today I find out that it was actually one of those end-of-the-world-when-Satan-comes-to-eat-your-head novels. Like, right-wing, born-again, evangelical, nut jobbery in which they take Revelations mythology as a real thing.

What can I tell you.We were Roman Catholics. THIS IS NOT A THING FOR US. In fact, we were taught that Revelations was a big-ass metaphor. I didn’t even know this was an actual, real belief until my mid-20s. And when I first encountered it, I thought someone was playing me for a sucker.

Ever since then, I’ve made it my business to educate myself on this mythology because this shit is flat out dangerous. It’s a death cult. Full stop. And nothing I’ve seen has convinced me it isn’t.

In any case, imagine my shock when today I find out that this novel I bought in Waldenbooks as a kid was pushing that agenda. An agenda that somehow got lost on my entire family because we literally had no idea what Lindsey was talking about.

I swear to you.We I thought it was a terrible science fiction novel. Wow. The more you know.

Season Four Was Doomed.

It was done and over as soon as “Just Dunk Me” and “Don’t Get Eaten” faded out and tossed into the garbage like so much spoiled fish. When they ended so did any hopes the show would pull out of the death spiral Laura Neal and her writers put it into.

The first two episodes were big flashing red lights of impending suck. I didn’t recognize the characters. I mean, I knew it was Sandra and Jodie and Fiona, but I didn’t recognize who the hell they were supposed to BE. Nobody was acting the way their characters had acted for the past three seasons.

The first two episodes were the worst of Killing Eve’s entire run. I’d like to delete both of them and get a do-over. How in the hell does any writer just drop the audience into a story seven months from where the previous season ended and later say, “I like not knowing what happened” the way Laura Neal did.

Laura Neal, you are the head writer of the show! If YOU don’t know what happened between Eve and Villanelle WHO THE FUCK DOES?

Start off wrong and it is tough to get right. The season didn’t find its legs until the fifth or sixth episode or so, but by then it was far too little, way too late.

The way Neal refused to provide any explanation of what happened between Eve and Villanelle between where we left them on the bridge and all this ugliness from Eve toward Villanelle months later is inexplicable. It’s like a master class in what not to do with an audience that has been waiting nearly two years to find out what comes next.

Neal seemed both oblivious as to following up on and filling in the blanks for an episode she co-wrote to end Season 3 and contemptuous of the audience’s need–not want–to know.

Neal figured she’d put Eve on a Ducati and forget that we’ve never seen her on a motorcycle, give her a big-ass gun, and let her drive into Russia to hunt down Konstantin. Plunk Villanelle down in a church somewhere and make her so desperate for “redemption” that she is going to start having hallucinations that she sees herself as Jesus. Oh, and if triggering the Catholics isn’t enough, let’s have Villanelle kill a cat and piss off the PETA crowd too!

I don’t know what sort of heavy-duty drugs you have to be on to think any of that b.s. was brilliant, but I would love to have been around Sandra and Jodie when they got their scripts. They have to had called each other up and said, “Can youbelievethis shit?”