From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article , did weberm@polaris.net   
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   >   
   > I watched:   
   [snippage]   
   > FANTASY ISLAND:   
   > Two travel agents, Fisher and Clia, send a form with their client's   
   > ultimate fantasy through a pneumatic tube, across thousands of miles,   
   > to Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island. Meanwhile, Roarke battles with his   
   > assistants, Cal and Harry, to prepare the island resort for a new batch   
   > of arriving guests: Matthew Ashby, who wishes he had married a   
   > different woman; Ricky Barnes, a daredevil looking for the ultimate   
   > challenge; and Jackie Martin, a law student battling for intellectual   
   > supremacy over her smarter sister, Regina.   
      
   Oh, you're watching *that* Fantasy Island? The dark and gritty one?   
      
   That's my least favorite of the three, but I did watch it. It had   
   interesting aspects. I liked the Travel Agent. I infer that they planned   
   to do more with that, if the show had run longer.   
      
      
   > KRAPOPLIS:   
   > "Weekend at Zeusie's". Krapopolis is invaded; the gods call Deliria's   
   > bluff.   
   >   
   > Well, that was interesting! I've been wondering about Ty's "will-he   
   > won't-he?" and if the other gawds would ever get suspicious about Zeus.   
   > I am eager to watch season five (or is it four)?   
      
   I said I was going to drop out of Krapopolis, but this sounds   
   intriguing.   
      
      
   > What did you watch?   
      
   I began watching The Neighborhood, a CBS show available on Paramount+.   
   The premise is that a well-meaning but somewhat clueless white family   
   moves into a black neighborhood, next to a man who's deeply suspicious   
   of white people. The pilot mostly just set things up, but it was   
   entertaining enough that I tried another.   
      
   The second episode, "Welcome to the Repipe," was pretty good. Calvin   
   (the black man with a grumpy attitude) agrees to help Dave with a   
   plumbing problem, and Calvin brings his adult son. Meanwhile, Dave plays   
   catch with his young son Grover, who stinks at catch. Calvin is not a   
   supportive father -- he's the sort who constantly threatens his   
   children's lives -- and Dave is the sort who tells Grover that   
   everything Grover does is wonderful. The fathers end up switching   
   places, and we watch as Calvin's son does better with some encouragement   
   while Dave's son does better with more truthful feedback. It's not a   
   complex lesson, but I don't expect great wisdom from comedies.   
      
   What did everyone else watch?   
      
   --   
   Trustworthy words are not pretty;   
   Pretty words are not trustworthy.   
      
   -Lao-Tzu spoke those pretty words.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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