#tragi-comedy

THE WHITE LOTUS (HBO)

The exploits and misadventures of various guests and employees at a tropical resort over the course of one week.

Rating: ✮✮✮✮✰ 4.5/5

it is one of the best shows of the year. does a great job with personal character struggles, as well as systemic problems like income inequality.

the music, though. (def on par with succession’s intro) it's like a visceral experience that elevates every scene without ever being too much. i find myself thinking about the score afterwards as much as I'm think about the plot.

Confessions of an Ageing Tennis Player: 2nd set, how to win at Wimbledon (12th game). Shakespeare is walking the hallowed Wimbledon turf (8-4)

Shakespeare is walking the hallowed Wimbledon turf (8-4) ‘Black Wednesday’, ‘Wild Wednesday’, ‘Wacky Wednesday’, ‘Wednesday Wipe-out’ – whatever you call it, our Wimbledon Wednesday had all the elements of the best of Shakespeare. Both tragedy and comedy were never far away yesterday as player after player succumbed to the dangers of the turf and inexplicable bouts of heavy breathing. I myself…

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The Seattle Opera production of The Tales of Hoffman was pretty enjoyable, as operas go. It had an interesting plot structure, was pretty amusing, and the costumes and singing were very good. Unfortunately, I think I just don’t like opera.

Opera puts the music—how it’s written, how it’s sung, how it integrates with the plot—first and foremost, and I’m just not a fan of opera music. I don’t have much of a sense of what it means for a singing voice to be classically good, nor do I particularly care for the style of music that’s written for those voices.