{"id":14083,"date":"2019-12-09T16:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:30:43","slug":"ive-sat-down-and-i-cant-get-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/ive-sat-down-and-i-cant-get-up\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Sat Down and I Can’t Get Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is now a deep indentation where I sit on the couch, not the shape of my ass but a big amorphous blob, almost a sinkhole. I can sit there for six hours if there’s enough TV to watch. I actually hate to get up and my partner enables this behavior by periodically asking if there’s anything he can get me, like cookies or chips or a hit of weed.<\/p>\n

“Use it or lose it” is great advice for somebody else. This inertia or paralysis or whatever we want to call it has a silver lining though: my discovery of Money Heist<\/strong><\/a> on Netflix<\/a>. It’s a Spanish series whose real title is La Casa de Papel<\/em>, referring to The Royal Mint of Spain, the site of a brazen heist designed by a criminal genius called The Professor.<\/p>\n

The Professor and the eight desperadoes he’s recruited for the heist will become your own beloved family as the show goes on for 30 addictive episodes. It’s easily the most addictive series I’ve experienced, topping Breaking Bad, with which it shares a certain perverse sensibility. Each episode ends with a cliffhanger that is fucking unbearable. You have to watch the next one, even if it’s 3 a.m.<\/p>\n

Trying to avoid spoilers, I’ll just say that this series has EVERYTHING! Suspense, drama, romance, heartbreak, humor, politics, philosophy, art direction, heroes and villains who morph into their opposites, and plot twists that will thrill and confound you. Don’t watch a dubbed version or you’ll miss the actors’ seductive voices and those beautiful Spanish S’s. Thank god it’s been renewed for season 4!<\/p>\n

Just to balance the enthusiasm here, let me complain about Sunday night TV,\u00a0 which has turned into a wasteland of awfulness with the season finale of Succession<\/strong>. Just when I survived the last dregs of The Affair<\/strong>, which was torture, I’m now stuck with Ray Donovan<\/strong><\/a> and Shameless<\/strong>. Both of these shows have outlasted any pretense of being watchable tripe. Everyone involved with them needs to die, asap. While watching them, I feel like I’m doing penance for some obscure crime in a past life, but my husband is committed to seeing them through, so I consider it part of my wifely duties.<\/p>\n

Plus I hate to get up.<\/p>\n

What about you guys, recommendations or complaints?<\/p>\n

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