gingerjess
Angel Diva
I got an Apple TV+ subscription last year for free when I bought a new iPad, and I've been enjoying Ted Lasso the last few weeks. For a TV show based on a couple ironic TV ads about how little most Americans understand about what the rest of the world calls football, it has a surprising amount of heart, and seems to really love its characters in a way that I find rare.
Not currently airing, but also on Apple TV+, is For All Mankind, which is sort of a science-fiction-y "what if" show—the premise is that the Soviet Union beat the US to the moon in 1969, and as a result, the space race continued unabated. It's well-written, and I find it interesting the way the show seems to use its characters' more selfish motives to push the world forward. For example, rather than the first woman astronaut being Sally Ride on the Space Shuttle in 1983, a well-publicized female cosmonaut's landing on the moon leads Nixon, in a fit of jealousy, to force NASA to recruit female astronauts, train them, and put one on the moon in 1971.
Between the two, I'll probably keep paying for the subscription when my free year is up.
Not currently airing, but also on Apple TV+, is For All Mankind, which is sort of a science-fiction-y "what if" show—the premise is that the Soviet Union beat the US to the moon in 1969, and as a result, the space race continued unabated. It's well-written, and I find it interesting the way the show seems to use its characters' more selfish motives to push the world forward. For example, rather than the first woman astronaut being Sally Ride on the Space Shuttle in 1983, a well-publicized female cosmonaut's landing on the moon leads Nixon, in a fit of jealousy, to force NASA to recruit female astronauts, train them, and put one on the moon in 1971.
Between the two, I'll probably keep paying for the subscription when my free year is up.