Yeah, I'm digging Netflix now

I've been binge watching a new show on Netflix--Sense8. From the minds of J. Michael Stryznski, and the Wachowskis--and if you don't know who those people are, search IMDB.com and come back afterwards.

It's a fairly new phenomenon--it's a show that's designed to be binge watched. There's no way something like this would work in a one-episode-a-week format. I'm not saying you need to sit and watch the entire thing in one sitting, but I do advise you do three or four episodes per session.

For a long time I resisted getting Netflix. I didn't think I'd ever watch it, and, to be honest, I don't as much as other people I know. But there are shows there that aren't available anywhere else, and there are vast wastelands of nothing on regular cable TV, so it helps.

Anyways, should you feel intrigued, one caveat--you need to watch this show. You can't just have it on and sort of check in on it every so often while you do something else. If you do that you'll be completely confused.

Also, there is this moment in episode four that is the epitome of excellence in scriptwriting. All I'll say is it involves the Four Non-Blondes song, "What's Going On?" It was perfection. It literally and figuratively hit all the right notes. If you haven't been paying attention you won't Get It.

I'm sorry, but stuff like that, artistic perfection, makes me giddy.

As far as my own work is concerned, I've decided to adapt a screenplay I wrote a while back into novel form. This was the very first screenplay I ever wrote and it never quite worked--now that it's sort of laid there in my subconscious for a while, marinating in my life experiences and hopes and nightmares, I'm hoping it now has aged into a certain piquancy. We shall see. I just started it so it'll be awhile before enough of it emerges so I can decide if I'm just wasting my time with it (again) or if I have something this time.

So, that's what's going on with me. You?