Here’s a sort of open thread for anyone who wants to talk about anything but the Iran bombing. You know, in case anyone is hoping to get some sleep tonight and wants to talk about something else.
I’ll start, but please don’t feel you need to limit the conversation to this.
I have less than a month left of Apple TV+ before I lose my $2.99 rate, so I’ll be cancelling until any of the shows I loved come back with another season. I probably have enough treadmill time for one show.
Loved Slow Horses. Loved Shrinking, which I just finished. Really liked The Morning Show.
I don’t want to watch Severance or anything that will remind me of the current times. Any suggestions for the Apple+ TV show?
Mostly open thread.
War for Ukraine Day 1,213: Da Fuq De Doin Ova Der?
WaterGirl
New post up.
Big R
@WaterGirl: Murderbot. That’s the one.
Parfigliano
Kjc23
The After Party and Bad Sisters are both fun murder mystery/comedies. And, of course, Ted Lasso.
Sandia Blanca
Schmigadoon, if you haven’t already seen it, is excellent.
I’ve also enjoyed The Buccaneers, which has just released the first episode of its second season. Period drama with modern sensibilities.
And of course, there’s Ted Lasso.
Trivia Man
Another successful world naked bike ride event today. Missed a couple spots on my back but mostly no sunburn. Hot hot hot… but the breeze helped
WaterGirl
@Kjc23: What’s The After Party about
edit: Please do not say “an after party”. :-)
edit 2: Okay, I googled. That one looks good.
WaterGirl
@Trivia Man:
world naked bike ride event today????
meander
I found both Shimgadoon and Shmicago to be delightful, with lots of fun and clever songs, interesting weaving of old and new classic Broadway musicals into the plot.
Some quality music documentaries: 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (a multi-part series), and Louis Armstrong (~2 hour film).
The Beanie Bubble movie was clever.
Mark
I don’t get Apple TV or any other subscription based television network. What makes streaming television new and improved over cable television.
The NFL and MLB are broadcasting some of their games on Apple TV. Aren’t they making enough off of cable. They are raking in enough to pay some of their employee’s in excess of $50 million per year.
My cable bill is over $300 per month. I’m not going to pay more.
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: I feel pretty relieved to have missed that event.
Wapiti
I see the Fremont (Seattle) Solstice Parade had a block set aside for a plant-based block party. Fremont used to be somewhat known for naked bicyclists in the parade.
WaterGirl
@Mark: Holy shit, I thought my cable bill was too high. (It is!0
WaterGirl
@MagdaInBlack: My first thought is that naked bike riding would be hard on the boys. But then I think all bicycle seats are tough on private parts.
JoyHc
I enjoyed Mythic Quest a lot. I’m also enjoying the new series Stick. Lessons in Chemistry was ok.
WaterGirl
@Mark:
It’s like a drug. Once you have a certain amount, you can never have enough.
Tenar Arha
@WaterGirl: I’d suggest Murderbot, bc both funny and SF, and Ted Lasso if you haven’t already seen it.
WaterGirl
@JoyHc:I enjoyed Mythic Quest a lot. I’m also enjoying the new series Stick. Lessons in Chemistry was ok.
A week or two ago I KNEW which Apple TV+ show I would watch for my last one. But I didn’t write it down and now I’ve forgotten. I thought maybe it was Stick, but I googled earlier today and it’s a golf show and that wouldn’t have been a show that I would get excited about.
I thought maybe MurderBot, but I watched the first episode (never read the books) and it didn’t GRAB me.
I will have to google mythic quest.
Jeffro
This reminds me: I need to ask for folks’ opinions on getting the family’s cell phone plan and our cable/internet plan down (maybe bundled?)
These are separate companies at present…open to suggestions!
(We have Comcast Xfinity for cable/internet and Verizon for a 4-phone family cell plan)
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: Does Xfinity even do cell phone? If so, i that new?
Chetan Murthy
@Jeffro: I live in SF, and there’s a WiMAX ISP here called MonkeyBrains that’s both insanely fast and cheap. I think $30/mo. So I can’t really comment on cable. But for cell service, I’m on Google Fi, along with ….. my mom and all her descendants and their SOs. It’s -cheap- and with that many people, you get a ton of bandwidth each month.
ETA: a Google FI group plan, of course.
DAstronomer
@Big R: seconded! It’s great. Or at least the source material is. So far I’m not disappointed.
WaterGirl
It so hot here today that I was out watering in the dark at 9 o’clock. There was sort of a breeze, if you can call a fan blowing hot air out of an oven over your skin, a “breeze”.
WaterGirl
@DAstronomer: @Big R: Okay, I will give MurderBot another episode before I decide.
Orchid Moon
Murderbot
Kjc23
@WaterGirl: I like the way each episode moves the viewer into a different genre. The big gambit is a sort of Knives Out mystery where every episode is told from a different vantage point and each playfully embraces a different style of storytelling. The “Wes Anderson” episode is marvelous.
WaterGirl
@Kjc23: Sounds intriguing. I will try that and MurderBot.
Lyrebird
@Jeffro: Ours is a bundled plan from the blob that used to be Time Warner Cable. It’s adequate, but fwiw our family is smaller than yours.
NotMax
On Apple+ streaming?
Schmigadoon.
Tthe Last Days of Ptolemy Grey.
’nuff said.
Kelly
“Blackbird” A man in prison is offered a deal for snitching on one bad dude.
MaryLou
Trying, about a British couple trying to build a family, starting with adoption, but ranging far and wide in the telling.
Mr. Bemused Senior
I have started watching Ashes to Ashes (Amazon / Britbox). It’s a follow on to Life on Mars, with a woman protagonist transported from 2008 back to 1981. She is a psychologist/criminal profiler, now a detective inspector in the Met.
So far (3 episodes) pretty good.
Jackie
@Mark:
I pay for YouTube TV. That’s spendy enough for me. My son signed up for the Mariners ROOT app @ $20/month. I said I’ll pay half for him to share. I’m a die heart M’s fan, along with being a Seahawks fan. It pisses me off having to pay EXTRA to watch my teams in WA – when I LIVE in WA.
Kayla Rudbek
@WaterGirl: that is precisely why proper bicycle shorts are padded. They have been padded since the 19th century when you didn’t have modern foam materials, so the padding was done with chamois leather as that was the least abrasive material the 19th century could come up with (the rest of the shorts/knickers likely being made from wool, linen, or cotton). Modern bicycle shorts still refer to the shaped padding in the shorts as the chamois because of this.
MisterForkbeard
Since this is a (mostly!) open thread, I can talk a bit about the stuff that’s going on with us that’s keeping me from focusing on all the other crazy shit in the world. Still good on balance, though.
Basically, back in January my 10 year old almost died from high-altitude induced edema. She was basically fine the moment we got her to the hospital, but that was a scary couple of days. At the end, they discovered she had a heart defect that was not an emergency but did need to be operated on. Open heart surgery.
We did that 3 days ago. Today, my amazing daughter left the ICU and is recovering excellently. She’s in the transitional care ward (meaning: shell go home in a few days) and is healing SO FAST from the surgery that they think they’ll send her home early.
This defect is usually either found very young or when youre much older. Finding it after the edema was the most goddamm silver lining thing I’ve ever seen – it may have saved her life in 10 or 30 years and now shes got a normal life expectancy.
Good stuff happens even in the middle of all this fuckery.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@MisterForkbeard: yikes! Best wishes for a complete and rapid recovery. ❤️
Trivia Man
@WaterGirl: sorry you missed it
They expected lower turnout cause of heat, about the same as last year. Very disappointed to miss Make Music madison today. Every year on the solstice there are hundreds of free concerts around town.
eclare
@MisterForkbeard:
So glad that your daughter is doing well, truly a silver lining. I hope she goes home soon, you must be so relieved.
Trivia Man
@Kayla Rudbek: low speed, very leisurely ride. No chafing at all. Sone are fully clothed, many fully nude. I opted for shoes and helmet.
PJ
@MisterForkbeard:
Glad to hear that you all had some good fortune. Your daughter may have had decades added to her life.
MisterForkbeard
@PJ: Also, the children’s hospital menu is nuts. My daughter had a grilled cheese and a milkshake for lunch. I had miso glazed salmon and a vegetarian japanese curry.
SF is a great place, what can I say?
karen gail
Can’t help with television programming; gave iup watching 12 years ago and have no regrets.
Kayla Rudbek
Apparently Ravelry has updated its notes function so it will do math for you in the notes field as you type. And according to the math in the notes section as well as my rounded up estimates, I should follow the pattern instructions as written and stop knitting this section of the clue, else I will run out of yarn at least two rows before the ending point for the next larger option in the pattern.
Mark
@Jackie: I know what you mean. I live in Redmond. Not happy to see the Mariners try to squeeze more money out of us. They already own ROOT sports.
Kayla Rudbek
@MisterForkbeard: that’s like winning the lottery and the Powerball in succession, as my sibling said about a similar situation. Best of luck and good health to your daughter!
Wapiti
@Jeffro: I use a company called Tracfone, it’s got bought up by Verizon last year, but still insanely low pre-paid plans. I pay something like $125/year, 1500 minutes, 1500 texts, 1.5 GB data. I end up having to buy more texts; my wife ends up buying more data, but it’s still a fraction of our old plan with Verizon. With 4 phones in your family I’m not sure how it might compare.
Jackie
@MisterForkbeard: OMG! I’m so happy it sounds like a happy ending for your daughter! What a terrifying experience for you and mama to go through!
Chetan Murthy
@Chetan Murthy: I forgot to mention what we pay. It’s $20/mo per line. Phone not included.
Jackie
@Mark: It’s sad that instead of rewarding an extremely loyal fan base, they’re determined to squeeze every dime from us while they can. Eventually, it’s going to backfire, when the most loyalist fans say enough is enough.
MisterForkbeard
@Jackie: Thanks much! The past few days have been kinda scary BUT it was necessary and it all seems to work out. Or is working out. Still awesome.
Wife is staying with the 10 year old tonight in the hospital. I’m at the hotel two miles away with our other daughter, hanging out at the hotel pool and watching her learn to swim. Also awesome. Wife and I are trading off nights there
rikyrah
Did you watch Prime Target?
The Buccaneers?
Sister Golden Bear
@MisterForkbeard: Yikes! Wishing your daughter continues her speedy recovery.
rikyrah
The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray?
NotMax
@rikyrah
Samuel L. Jackson plays the lead character and is, as always, superb. Check it out. It’s a 6 episode mini-series so no long term commitment.
rikyrah
@MisterForkbeard:
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 for your baby
Harrison Wesley
@MisterForkbeard: Light in a world of darkness.
Shalimar
@Jackie: I said enough is enough during the 1994 MLB strike. Very few people have reached their breaking point since then, but some day maybe.
Harrison Wesley
Is anybody interested in running a few sentences (a paragraph) after the opening “Once upon a time?”
WaterGirl
@Mr. Bemused Senior: LOVE. Oh of those shows. Watched both more than once.
hitchhiker
Somehow I find live court proceedings soothing and just interesting enough. Current thing is some of the many videos from the Karen Read case in Boston, where at the moment I’m watching the prosecutor make a fool of himself trying to interrogate a biomechanical engineer who can barely make sense of his bizarrely uninformed questions but still must answer without coming across as a snobby know-it-all elitist.
It’s really something.
WaterGirl
@MisterForkbeard: so scary, but a Lessing at the same time. Glad she is doing so well!
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: I have not.
danielx
90 today for the first time this year, with more to follow next few days. Damn glad I saw Goose before it got blistering hot and gladder yet I don’t have tickets for any outside events in the next few days.
WTFGhost
@MisterForkbeard: Glad to hear good news.
eclare
@Shalimar:
The strike did it for me, too. I moved to ATL in 1991, the year the Braves went from worst to first, and I watched over 100 games that year. Also watched plenty in 1992 and 1993, and Sid Bream sliding into home and being called safe is burned in my brain.
But the strike ended my baseball fandom.
laura
@MisterForkbeard: best wishes for continued health and healing and home safe soon for your daughter and family. If she’s being treated and cared for at UCSF, well, she’s getting the very best of care that can be had.
Mike S
We really liked Bad Monkey and i liked for all man kind a lot.
MisterForkbeard
Oh – Watergirl, watch Murderbot. It’s based off of an excellent book series thats won a ton of awards, and the show itself isn’t half bad.
WTFGhost
@Harrison Wesley: Once upon a time…
… once upon a time lilypad, a timefrog croaked out a relaxed tune, as its tongue pulled in gnats of might-have-beens and coulda-shoulda-wouldas. It was comforting to know that one is at the top of the existence chain, supping upon time and possibility and even the dregs of history itself. It was only to be expected that such a serene interlude would be destroyed by the ever-expanding foul miasma that spread through the timescape.
It could not be – but it was. The noxious frog, the only frog to fart fireflies backward, had returned, many a year after that Chernobyl firefly embedded itself in his forehead, resembling a twisted morass that, viewed from space, through a very distorted lens, might even appear to be human hair, and the flatulent frog was angry that others shamed it for being so soundly ass-kicked by a mere atomic firefly!
But now, now, the flatulent frog had asscended to timefrogdom, and its vile secretions were poisoning the timeline.
“This cannot be!” the original time frog screamed. “I was assured I’d merely get a tax cut! Wait, what do you mean, let’s test the frog-in-a-blender-joke!!!”
Harrison Wesley
@WTFGhost: Y’all came up reading the Beats in the ’40s and ’50s, didn’t ya?
anitamargarita
Murder bot is real good.
Gloria DryGarden
@MisterForkbeard: fantastic. It’s so wonderful to hear such good news. Smooth healing to your daughter
Darkrose
I am exhausted and wired. Concert dress rehearsal on Thursday, opening on Friday and party afterwards, two shows today, and then closing tomorrow. It’s been so much fun, y’all. I’m grateful to have space for something not politics-related, where I can turn off notifications and be with a community focused on creating something wonderful.
When we sang “We Are Family” some of us paraded across the stage showing off our queer selves: a doctor, a couple of professors, a leatherdaddy, a runner, a a punk, a multi-fandom nerd (Star Trek, Star Wars, & Doctor Who), and me, the queer librarian. I originally planned to wear a cardigan and scarf, but that’s not how I dress. Instead I wore jeans, Birkenstocks, my pink, blue, and white flannel shirt, and my Maintenance Phase “Methodology Queen” shirt.
Marc
We use a northern California-only company called Sonic.net, they use rented fiber to pretty close to 1 gbit up/down nearly all of the time, plus local/long distance voice service, all for $75/month. Similar kinds of companies exist in other areas. We have a separate cellphone plan with T/Mobile, and that provides Apple TV and HBO. Spouse pays for Disney/Hulu and BritBox for a bit more variety. No TV, no point to cable.
Gloria DryGarden
On Hulu, which I have for a year bundled w Starz, I’ve gotten some great shows. I just watched Andor. Now I want to watch it again. It really drew me in.
It was Soo good.
I had That three days free on Apple tv s few months back, and I binged through Lessons in chemistry.
The other great news id it’s down to 80°, it’s blissful. I’m taking a nap outside on a yoga mat; inside is much hotter.
mrmoshpotato
@Trivia Man: Penis breeze!
Also, I haven’t reminded everyone lately that we can say penis on the new site.
PENIS!
mrmoshpotato
@MisterForkbeard: Glad your daughter is recovering well.
KrackenJack
@Jeffro: Had Verizon for many years. Switched to T-mobile. Got one free Samsung and a Pixel 9 for a like $100. No trade-in. Saving $100 per month for two lines. Internet is a local fiber company. No cable.
Like many things in life, once I made the change I wish I had done it years ago.
CaseyL
@MisterForkbeard: Wonderful news! All best wishes to your daughter, you, and your whole family.
@WaterGirl: Murderbot is definitely not a run-of-the-mill story. I’d hesitate to recommend it without reading the books first, but from various reviewers and comments that doesn’t seem to matter. A lot of people seem to like the show precisely because it’s offbeat.
(I have only watched clips so far, since I’m waiting for the whole thing to air before getting an Apple TV subscription and watching it all at once. But I adore the books.)
BethanyAnne
@Jeffro: I have been using Consumer Cellular for about 4 years now, and I’m really happy with the rates and the service.
@MisterForkbeard: OMG. Very glad she came out of the surgery fine. Even better to dodge that later life problem.
Craig
Way late to thread. But if no one else said it Disclaimer is very interesting. POV moves around. Great actors. Tangled script. Loved it hated Love It.
Murderbot. Episodes are too short. Story great. The Major recommended Murderbot Diaries here years ago. Books are great. TV is good.
The Studio is a cheap high. It’s kinda brilliant, cause I’m sure Seth Rogen has been in all these dunbfunny tainment meetings.
Palm Royale more cheap fun with some Ricky Martin/Carol Burnett genius.
Velvet Underground movie.
Steve in the ATL
@MisterForkbeard: damn, dude!
In re cable: I refuse to pay for any service that includes Fox News so I cut the cord years ago. Plenty to watch on Netflix, Prime, Hulu, and Apple.
Also, it became just about impossible to find the Braves on tv so I’ve lost interest in my beloved baseball. Way to go, greedy assholes. Next up on the losing interest front: college football.
Segue to baseball labor activity: in addition to 1994-5, there were also strikes in 1972, 1980, 1981, and 1985.
And lockouts in 1973, 1976, 1990, and 2021. And likely one coming up next test when the current CBA expires.
Baseball is a great sport for labor lawyers!
No One of Consequence
@MisterForkbeard: This is the most awesome thing I have read today. Thank the Universe and hug your daughter. It doesn’t get any better than that.
Thanks for posting, at least I will hit the pillow a little lighter because of this.
-NOoC
Craig
@Steve in the ATL: upraised first emoji!
frosty
@Steve in the ATL: I’m with you on baseball. We cut cable for the same reason you did. Costs too much to watch the Orioles now.
But I hung an antenna and I can watch the Ravens from a Baltimore station. The NFL required all the teams to broadcast old-school. MLB wasn’t that smart.
Tony Jay
@MisterForkbeard:
This is a delicious meal of good. What a fantastic girl you have there.
Tony Jay
@WaterGirl:
Funnily enough there are a lot of things I don’t want to watch because Today is shitty enough without dramatising it, but we just finished series 2 of Severance and loved its finely-acted sweet weirdness. You’d think that, being British, I’d have had more than my fill of an incompetent Cult of Kier, but somehow this show is the exception that proves the rule.
Giving Department Q a go now. Matthew Goode gives great grump, and it’s got my kind of sarcastic humour.
cain
@MisterForkbeard: so glad to read this
NotMax
@BethanyAnne
Mint mobile here. $15 pr month if you pay for a year. $180 is almost what some other folks pay monthly!
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
Hulu, not so much. But the 99 cents per month for a year offered last Black Friday was too good to pass up for the occasional item (IMHO) worth spending eyeball time with.
Did find Black Ops and Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes more than watchable, however.
Rusty
@MisterForkbeard: Both of those are scary as hell as a parent, so glad they are having good outcomes. Prayers for continued healing!
raven
@Steve in the ATL: I got the Fanduel account to watch the Braves. There were lots of posts about how shitty the app is but it works fine for me.
The Unmitigated Gaul
A Norwegen series on Netflix called Pernille (the main character’s name) – “a 40‑something single mother balancing three children, her aging father, and a demanding job in child welfare” – is very, very good – not a bad performance in it. Five series.
narya
At a campground near Sheboygan; IndyCar race at Road America today, where the heat index will be >100. My usual viewing spot is probably out of the question; direct sun for hour w that kind of heat? No.
m.j.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCKyYKdgtQ&list=PLpR40se-_3M8QnHhIReAR-s-wTJCOJGBg&index=23
The show is good.
The opening number is spectacular.
Central Planning
There are a bunch of series we/I have watched that I didn’t see mentioned: Foundation, For All Mankind, and Dark Matter
Professor Bigfoot
@MisterForkbeard: Late to the thread but absolutely want to chime in– GOOD ON HER, and good for you all!
I always say 80% of “the breaks” go against us; but that other 20% can feel like God watching out for us.
Joy of her victory to her!!
Professor Bigfoot
@Central Planning: I started “For All Mankind,” but it’s portrayal of America in the 1960s and ’70s put me off terribly.
I know it’s alternate history (speaking as a certified Harry Turtledove fan!) but it felt like they
sidesteppedCOMPLETELY DOWNPLAYED the level of racism and sexism rampant in this country in that time.Reckon I’ll have to try it again sometime.
**edited for clarity
zhena gogolia
Pee Wee Herman documentary on Max is excellent.
zhena gogolia
@MisterForkbeard: Thanks for this story! All best wishes to your whole family!
zhena gogolia
@Darkrose: Sounds great!
Liminal Owl
@MisterForkbeard: That sounds utterly terrifying—with an amazing silver lining. I’m very glad your daughter is OK.
lowtechcyclist
@eclare:
The strike didn’t do it for me, but a contemporaneous event, the introduction of the wild card, ultimately did. It undermined for me the drama of the regular season, where 162 games actually settled something. Two teams go down to the wire, one finishes 95-67 and goes on, the other finishes 94-68 and goes home. At least, that’s how it had been through the end of the 1993 season. Even if your team was the 94-68 team, the joy for one team and the pain for the other was what gave drama and intensity to the 162-game ride, made every little game along the way matter.
I think it was 1996 when the O’s won their division by ~10 games, and the Yankees, finishing that distant second, still got a wild card, and beat the O’s in a 5- or 7-game series, I can’t remember which. But when seven games can undo 162 games, there’s less reason to pay attention to the 162 games, and eventually that ‘less reason’ faded to ‘zero reason’ for me. And then even if your team makes the playoffs, well, you haven’t been paying attention to them in the regular season because why bother, so you really don’t know your ballclub anymore so even the postseason doesn’t really matter.
That was my evolution, anyway. Apparently there are still millions of people out there watching MLB and the sport clearly isn’t hurting for money, but they can continue to go on without me.
I still refer to the 1993 Braves-Giants pennant race as The Last Real Pennant Race Ever.
different-church-lady
@Jackie: This conversation makes me kind of glad to have abandoned sports television, due to the graphic intrusions making it unwatchable.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@frosty: I pay $20 a year for an MLB app that provides home and away radio broadcasts for ever MLB game. So I don’t watch, I listen, but honestly of all sports baseball is the one built for radio. I don’t think MLBTV is all that expensive either though they may black out the home team to keep folks tuning in to the local affiliate.
That’s a problem with YouTubeTV, Hulu + live TV etc – you get all the basic cable and network channels but often not the local affiliates that show your home team playing. Not a problem for NFL because the local affiliate is a network channel but most other sports are on a local sports affiliate channel that won’t necessarily be on the streaming live TV app.
As for Apple + shows the new one where Owen Wilson plays a washed up pro golfer taking a young phenom under his wing seems like it has potential if you’re the kind of person who likes Ted Lasso, but we’re only two episodes in so I have no idea whether it’ll keep building into something good or fizzle.
On Netflix we’re enjoying the show where Kate Hudson plays a female NBA team owner. Running Point I think it’s called.
Sandgk
My recommendation would be a couple of the movies.
The Gorge is fun monster sci-fi. Two sharp-shooting bond when tasked with protecting humanity against monsters 9of their own creation).
Blitz is really well done.
If mindless distraction is your aim – The Fountain of Youth (basically, a treasure hunt with betrayals and comeuppances).
Mike E
Watergirl: funny you should mention Severance, I told friends I was going to rewatch it instead of watching The Last Of Us precisely because it was a break from today’s headlines (and also, it’s fantastic). I rewatched Station Eleven for the 3rd time, also extraordinary television. Of course, ymmv.
Liminal Owl
@NotMax: I have tried to get Mint Mobile. It requires a ZIP code and then tells me to put in a valid one. Our ZIP code is perfectly valid but apparently a lot of websites are programmed to think otherwise.
Geminid
@different-church-lady: That’s why I like baseball on the radio. It’s a more laid-back experience than frenetic televised baseball. Unfortunately, radio-broadcast games are harder to find now than five years ago,
Theron Ware
Servant
sixthdoctor
Like many I’ll second Slow Horses and Murderbot.
My wife liked Ted Lasso but it wasn’t for me.
I did not stick with For All Mankind and Hello Tomorrow! but I liked the concepts.
I’ve heard good things about Government Cheese but haven’t started it yet.
And finally, I can’t exactly recommend it, but Sugar was watchable with a batshit insane conceptual twist halfway through that was so batshit insane that I respected that it took the big swing. It elicited an end-of-the-current-Doctor-Who-cliffhanger-level WHAT from me.
NotMax
@Liminal Owl
Could be you situation is similar to mine? My town now shares a ZIP code with a neighboring one (didn’t used o be that way). Sometimes if I put my real town in the address the ZIP will not be recognized as valid unless I change that address line to the neighboring town.
Regardless, when I first signed up with Mint I had some questions and found their customer service phone line representatives to be courteous and helpful. Don’t think it proper to give out their phone number here; easy enough to find it on their web site or by a search online.
Theresa,MF
We find we watch AppleTV more than most other streaming services, which we tend to use sporadically.
I’ll second Ted Lasso (very feel good), Shrinking (Harrison Ford is wonderful), After Party (goofy fun), Slow Horses (just wonderful all around), Severence (has a bit of an X-Files workplace/world weirdness vibe), For All Mankind (mainly first few seasons, became over-campy for us), Bad Sisters (s1 only, but amazing dark humor), Bad Monkey (so snarky, and liked it despite not liking Vaughn), Stick (not actually about golf, much the way Lasso isn’t really about football. Likeable characters, but I’m mainly watching as a Marc Maron fan).
I would also add Time Bandits (very light, short eps); Drops of God (wine tasting competition!); The New Look (might be hard given the political circumstances here, but beautifully done with amazing performances); STEVE!, the 2-part doc on Steve Martin (his real life friendship with Martin Short made Murders in the Building even more enjoyable–we immediately did a re-watch afterward).
pieceofpeace
@MisterForkbeard: This life-changing experience for all of you was wonderful to read, especially today….v. happy for your family!
Tehanu
Murderbot — but if you give up on the series, don’t give up on the books, which are much funnier.