One Big Love
We’ve come to the end of Season 4 of Big Love and Netflix doesn’t have Season 5 available yet on DVD. Deep breath.
I guess it is fitting that this drama was written by gay writers and perhaps, Will Scheffer and Mark Olsen, had their tongue in their cheek many a time during the character and plot development. A polygamist family and all of the problems that come up as a result of a plural marriage, that is illegal, that is not really harmful to anyone except the majority of people who don’t cotton to it.
So goes gay marriage, so goes many things. Anyone who watched The Kids Are All Right know that gay couples and families go through the same thing that straight couples go through and now we know that polygamist suffer the same. Alrighty then – we’re all cliches is all I have to say.
Every time I think I have a unique problem only known to Rachel, I find out that 90% of the other baby boomers re going through a similar thing. It’s like we are all Borg or something.
Boring! I can’t even have a unique problem.
I am so obviously part of the sweeping group of babies that were born to over think, over spend, over desire, over compensate, over indulge. But why would I want to be part of any group that would have me?
Well now, all the BBs out there are growing weary of home ownership, of corporate greed, of politics, and of the status quo in general. We want something different! We actually demand something different – whether it be spirituality (read: cliche) or a simpler life (again: cliche) or entrepreneurship (oh please, again, cliche), wah wah wah, boo frickin hoo.
So while we are waiting for Season 5 to finally flow through Netflix’s DVD business that was going to change but now isn’t going to change, we can start to contemplate another form of entertainment around the LaLa – back to movies, in cue are two Abby Lincoln films – For the Love of Ivy and Nothing But A Man. It will be nice to slow down the breakneck pace of Big Love where the summary at the beginning of each episode reads like a complete narrative for a full length novel. I’m usually exhausted after the hour is up.
Why is it in life there is time for breakfast, work, a bit of exercise, reading to your child, watching one show and then sleep and that is pretty much it? Oh, right this is one of those Baby Boomer life questions.
The good news my friends is that the youth we had no faith in has been tearing it up in New York City with Occupy Wall Street and now they are spreading through to other cities. Ben and Jerry’s just came out in strong support for the movement – it took a stand as a corporation – you gotta love Ben & Jerry’s (and hey, they are baby boomers!).