Black Lightning continues to have too-long titles, and too much plot per episode. Some of it feels too disconnected to be coherent, but I do care about what happens to the characters. I wonder why the creepy ASA agent is in charge of the pod people, and why they weren't forced to hand them over, since the original experiment was by ASA agents. What ever happened to that mysterious briefcase that Tobias has?
Supergirl premiered well on Sunday, though my recording was bad due to all the rainstorms. Hope I can get a cleaner copy if they rerun it later. It's nice to see President Marsden again, though her alien identity was exposed. I think this season will be more about aliens as refugees/immigrants being targeted for hate crimes, so more political metaphors, but it's not too blatant.
I saw the movie Colette, about the French novelist. Very good, with a glimpse at how radical art and free love were in fin de siècle France. Colette makes friends with a pantomime performer named Wague who trains her to become an actress when she separates from Willy. Colette also has a lesbian affair with Missy, who dresses in men's clothes and sometimes shares the stage with Colette. At one point Colette insists on saying Missy is a "he" yet they don't use the other name Max that Missy sometimes used, so it's a little ambiguous about his/her identity. I like that Paris is depicted to be diverse and cosmopolitan, not all white like some period movies. I hear Keira Knightly is cast in a new movie with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, about the first black Miss World. That will be interesting too.
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