Spring arrives this week. After a winter that I personally look forward to ending, I am encouraged. Here in Metro Detroit, Michigan, we have been getting some March temperatures in the 60s. The Winter 2020/2021 season has been difficult for me, and understandably so, but I have found some relief with sources of entertainment.
Two months after it premiered on Netflix, I played catch-up and streamed Bridgerton. This period drama is from Shonda Rhimes’s Shondaland. And when I first watched a preview of it, with a voice narration by legendary Julie Anderews, I was immediately thinking of Downton Abbey (which, by the way, premiered on PBS ten years ago!). I thoroughly enjoyed Bridgerton. Based on Julia Quinn’s novels, Bridgerton is set in the Regency era and is about two supposed opposites—played by Phoebe Dynevor and Regé–Jean Page (above)—who fall in love after pretending they’re in love.
I also streamed on Netflix a small-budget film, which could have been on my beloved Hallmark Channel, titled Love, Guaranteed. (I enjoy Hallmark Channel because it is, well, comfy.) This romantic comedy stars Rachael Leigh Cook, who has been the leading lady in numerous Hallmark productions (she co-produced this one), and Damon Wayans Jr. Love, Guaranteed is about a man who hired an online dating service which said it would deliver his love match within 1,000 dates. Wayans’s character is on No. 986. He senses fraud and the need to sue—and he hires Cook’s attorney character. Guess what happens next.
Having come across it on TV One (or was it VH1?), I also was enjoying reruns of the 1993–1998 Fox comedy series Living Single. It premiered one year before NBC’s immediate hit Friends. It starred Queen Latifah, Kim Coles, Kim Fields, and Erika Alexander. Timing was good because I have also been watching The Equalizer, a peculiar CBS reboot of the dark 1985–1990 CBS series which starred Edward Woodward. This also stars Queen Latifah. And something dawns on me: Queen Latifah is not only entertaining but she is really talented. She can turn nothing into something. In other words: I would not have bothered with a single rerun of Living Single if it were not for Queen Latifah. And I would not bother with The Equalizer if it did not star Queen Latifah.
Being entertained, no matter by what or by who, may or may not be worthy of one’s time. But, we are human beings. It can be of use. It can be a nice distraction. Especially if that distraction can help.
Being entertained can also be a distraction to the detriment of all who are affected.
This was true with Donald Trump.
This has been going on, and for some time, with the Democratic Party.
It is happening in more than one form.
I will write more about this with my blog topic for next week, scheduled for Monday, March 29, 2021. It will also address something—and someone—who [is/are] a distraction to the detriment to us all.
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