Today we are cancelling the apocalypse.

I gotta get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and sparkle,

me at least sparkle.

I know what some of your big city no bra wear and hairy-legged women livers might say.

Hello everyone and welcome maximum film. it is episode 233 and I'm glad you hear with me and my friend so let me

introduce you to them first up we have the Christmas Zetti himself everyone's favorite critic

Alonzo Dural day was good

I'll tell you if he I know this is a basic bitch answer, but I'm really enjoying the

gilded age on HBO I was a total

Downton Abbey never missed an episode and now this is just giving me more

of that that tasty you know, like,

side-eye in the salon kind of action that I crave from shows like this.

It's about New York City in the late 19th century

and the arrival of the new money robber baron types and how the old money

you know Astors were trying to sort of keep them out of the upper echelon of high

society but you know there's like a gajillion characters and there's a gay air and there's you know scheming servants and

New in the world of Julian fellows is an actual black character with interesting things

happening. A young woman who is a writer who's trying to you know sell stories to

newspapers and you know dealing with they're very interested and then they meet her and they're like oh we uh and then now she's going to be writing for a black newspaper and she lives in Brooklyn with their parents and you know there's assumptions about class and just all kinds of stuff and I'm here for it.

Ooh, I'm like buckle let me in.

I very much like to imagine just this cross town shot of Alonzo and Dave snuggled in watching the

Gilded Age and then leaping over to me and my cats watching Reacher.

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