in which i am bad at recommending a thing
challenge #9 - rec your new thing!
i don't know if i'd call it a "new thing" so much as it's "show i watched that stuck with me" - bodies, on netflix. the exact same (dead) body shows up in the exact same place in london in four wildly different years - 1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053 - and four wildly different detectives take the case. it's kind of time travel-ish but it's not a time travel show (that would be the lazarus project which isn't a new thing because i watched it over the summer and it's pretty grim but i enjoyed it and if you watched it too raise your hand so i have someone to go OMG at) - ANYWAY. i think i liked bodies? which is a terrible way to rec something but i kept thinking about it after it was over and i think that's a positive. the detective in 1941 is a nice jewish boy so of course the ptb need to show him dealing with antisemitism because i guess it's impossible to exist as a jewish character in a contemporary(ish) show set in the us or europe without someone making a big point of your religion. (that's sarcasm. i hate that trope.) the detective in 1890 is gay (closeted - he's married and has a daughter), the detective in 2023 is a muslim woman of color (and a badass), and the detective in 2053 is only able to walk with the aid of a rechargeable metal thing that attaches to her spine. (she comes home from work, plops down in a chair, takes the detachable spine off, and sticks it in the charger. she has a brother with the same issue who's wheelchair bound.) so everyone's got something. the future is bright and shiny and oddly dystopian and while i didn't think most of it looked particularly futuristic i enjoyed the slow reveal of the dark shit under the shiny exterior. it takes some time for the plotlines to converge and it's convoluted but interesting.
i'm probably doing a very bad job of selling it and i have no idea what the wider fandom looks like but i recommend watching at least the first one or two episodes to see if it grabs you. it's based on a comic book miniseries so if comics are more your speed the issues were collected in a trade paperback altho i don't know if it's still in print. (i never read it so i don't know how or if the tv show is different.)
that was... not much of a pimp. but now that i've seen bodies i kind of want to watch it again. it's only eight episodes.
in other news, i dunno, work is work, home is home, writing group tonight included a new person who wants to join and so took the opportunity to see how we work and we could all meet each other. their cat is named bagel which i think is adorable. they introduced themselves as class of 2021 (college) which means holy shit they are a CHILD. but i think they liked us and they could be a good addition to the group.
work is busy and i'm annoyed about it - january is supposed to be slow! - but the stuff that's keeping me busy is stuff that's also getting me overtime, so.
there's a radio frequency out in russia that's been broadcasting since 1982 and no one knows why. it broadcasts a continuous monotone occasionally broken up by someone reading random russian words. no one has claimed it and no one's 100% sure what it's for. spy signals? military transmissions? dead hand signal? (if someone drops nukes on russia the monotone will stop and trigger a nuclear response.) none of those things? if any russians know they're not telling.