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Series:

1. Afro beats: The Backstory

2. Alchemy of Souls

3. A Teacher

4. Black Bird

5. Blacklist

Raymond Reddington

The Inner Voice

6. Blood & Water S2

7. Bridgerton

Quick Thoughts on S2

Additional Thoughts

8. Chernobyl

9. Cowboy Bebop

I'm a hypocrite.

You're a hypocrite.

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The desperate need to not be alone, to find that missing piece that will make life make sense, give meaning to these routines, and validate you, you've done something right. That will say it was all worth it. That will make you feel seen...

The Perfect Yin Yang

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" I think about you all the time. I think about what you're wearing and what you're doing and who you're doing it with. I think about what friends you have. I think about what you eat before you work and what shampoo you use and what happened in your family. I think about your eyes and your mouth and what you feel when you kill someone. I think about what you have for breakfast. I just...want to know everything."

From season 1, it was clear Eve was so interested in Villanelle as a person, not just as an assassin. Her monologue at the end sounded like someone that wanted to know intimate things about her like breakfast, her friends, what she feels. I think their relationship was still cat and mouse until the moment the knife went in and it evolved into cat and cat.

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Religious fanaticism at its finest.

Scenes From A Marriage

I just found it so relatable, so much so that I ranted to a friend about it for hours, and she thought it was a real-life story, haha. Discovering the answer to the question. Who am I, and not what family or society or friends or people feel we should be can be really hard. And coming to the realisation and acceptance of one's part in the fizzling out of a relationship is a lot of work.

Interview With The Vampire

The themes of grief, identity, abuse, cycles of abuse, dysfunctional family that bleeds throughout the show is how I know Ill be coming back to this from time to time. Basically a show about flawed people trying to love and be loved and the show demands you have empathy for them, and even goes beyond to ask that you forgive them. I have accepted the fact that no matter how many times I rewatch this show, there will always be something I missed. With every new season, you go back and you see certain things in a new light. The core theme, "Memory is a monster" makes it so that you'll never know the full story.

Fleishman Is In Trouble

This is one of the shows that had me asking what rock I had been under??? If you haven't seen it, you've been living under a rock too! From time to time, my mind keeps bringing me back to the ending monologue.

"It has to do with how you feel about yourself, and the person closest to you gets mistaken for the circumstance and you think, Maybe if I excised this thing, Id be me again. But you're not you anymore. That hasn't been you in a long time. It's not his fault. It just happened. It was always going to just happen."

Feud: Bette and Joan

I would quote the Finale Title for this one.

"You Mean All This Time We Could Have Been Friends?"

Saying this title has me tearing up already. I mourned the women. I mourned the friendship these two women could have had and loathed all the things that stood in the way of that.

Fosse Verdon

The final one in the 3Fs.

This World Can't Tear Me Down & Tear Along The Dotted Line

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Yes the adrenaline rush, the thrill is there, the moment everything goes silent and you're waiting with bated breath to see what will come next. But, beyond all this is how the show invites you to sit with them and reflect. Without outright saying it, you find yourself putting yourself in their shoes and thinking What will I do in this situation? How will I behave and react in this situation? There's almost no room for judgement, because sometimes, even the betrayals, you find yourself nodding in understanding.

It is the becoming of people. Who they become through these games. It is the fact that the games "encourage" them to move as a team, and they see these people they care about die, and they have to keep going in real-time. There is no time to grieve the loss, there is no time to feel or do anything. There is nothing people wouldn't do for the future they desire or to avert a repeat/escalation of their past. There is nothing as soul-crushing as hearing your future will amount to nothing. When the guilt and regret swallow one whole and all the hope drains from our souls, what else is there to live or fight for? What will you do, what will you sacrifice for your dream future? Or will you sacrifice your dream future and who or what will you do it for?

"There is one sin I have come to fear above all others. Certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end. Dios mío, Dios mío, ¿por qué me has abandonado? He cried out in His agony at the ninth hour on the cross. Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery and therefore no need for faith" - Conclave

They say there's light at the end of the tunnel, a path out of the maze we call life, but when you're in the thick of it, you simply cannot see this light or this path they talk about. How can you tell me there's a light or a path when all I can see around me is darkness, an empty void that dares to suck you in whole, all encompassing, overwhelming and there isn't even a torchlight to see. The darkness envelopes me, invades my senses, pierces deep into every part of my body and soul, so again, where's this light?? We search for clarity, for answers, and everywhere is just silent.

So which makes me think, maybe we will not fully understand or be able to see the big picture because we are right in it. Think about it like a maze, when you're in the maze or tunnel, it's really hard to see your way out or what's at the end, but when you're looking at it from the top-down view of a drone, it's so easy to see the path and see the end of the tunnel. But we don't get to see that. So I think faith is for our benefit, because it's what gives us hope to keep going. When we finally make it to the top of the mountain, the view is worth it, and then, we will have a better understanding of why we had to go through certain things. But then, I ask, did we really have to go through everything we went through??? Hmmm.