I have a love-hate relationship with Ken Burns. He can be straight forward. He can be sanctimonious. I found his Vietnam War to be brilliant through and through. It had narrative thrust.
Now comes, or plods, The American Revolution (or Evolution), and I am wondering if it took as long to happen as it does here on PBS (Pledge Break Society). I loved the first episode, and was high and riding high ... Into the second and ... Replay now or later? .. Oh what else is there to watch??? I'm not defaulting yet to the Three Stooges.
I plowed my way through the third,well no, halfway through, and am suddenly suffering from TMD (TOO MUCH DETAIL) . Maybe that is a good thing for civic-studies classrooms, Siberian shut-ins, or repellent aversion TV therapy.
It's drawing raves. I see the Wall Street Journal called it "static." The understatement of the century.
Static. I'll give it another chance, I think, I may, I should. Could get better. And maybe if I am lucky, the final episodes will be scored by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Better yet, maybe Masterpiece will put out their own version of the tumultuous tiff on our side that sent the other side retreating into a very very long Ken Burns night
The Phantom of Plymouth Rock, anyone?
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Did you see that Circus Vazquez was in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
No I did not, I don't usually watch the parade. but GREAT for Vargas landing a place in it!
NOT Vargas, Vazquez was in the parade.
My profuse apologies. My mistake. Good Going, Vazquez!
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