Startling Observation

I don't care for movies and most television serieses anymore.
The films don't entertain nor surprise. I watched "Rhapsody in
Blue" (1945) last night, interested only in Oscar Levant and
Paul Whiteman, respectively a composer/pianist/actor, and orchestra
conductor, genuine and influential associates of the biopic
subject George Gershwin. Everything else was trite and predictable.
Al Jolson, also in the picture, popularized Gershwin's first song
hit "Swanee" in 1920 and was in blackface in the film, 'cuz black 
don't crack and 25 years can add laugh lines to a fellow. 

My husband and I used to watch UK quiz shows: "Never Mind the 
Buzzcocks," "QI," "Have I Got News For You," and news review 
"Mock the Week" (I had to search for this one, despite watching it
for six seasons). Once the US Electoral College determined it wanted
the nation's years 2017-2020 to be nothing like 2009-2016 I couldn't
watch the news shows, it hurt to be feeling and thinking like the
Brits while being crushed in the United States. I haven't seen any
episode of QI's "R series," and that I didn't notice it and don't 
miss it is startling.

Silent films I will continue to watch. Faces matter to me more
than ever.