All Forms of Art

I can actually do a quicker review on this one show: sorry, I didn’t like it. But let’s slow down and try to think about it for a moment. The show itself has a simple premise. A bullied fat teenage girl gets beautiful and wants revenge, so she starts to participate in beauty pageants with the help of her lawyer who is also a coach from this sort of event and a very… let’s say confused, man. Sorry, but this is just not for me, yet I gave it a try anyway. It’s a Netflix show and they’re usually pretty good, so… Am actually a little sad that it turned out to be disappointing.  It’s supposed to be a comedy, but it’s empty. The characters are supposed to be deeper than they really are, they have their own background story with some possibly interesting facts, but they’re just… flat. Generally, the comedy genre should make you laugh, right? Insatiable doesn’t. It’s actually quite boring at some points turning into absolute nonsense during others. Full of prejudic...

A book about parenting, sort of… When you become a parent, it’s inevitable, you’ll probably read about it. You’ll say you don’t care about these books and you’ll be filled with fear that you’re somehow doing something wrong. The way I interpreted it at least, this one basically tells you to “Get over it!” Its title might seem odd, but it’s actually a pretty interesting theory about two ways of being a parent and taking care of your children. The gardener is that person who cares and provides the best they can for their flowers and lets them flourish. They do the best they can, but there are a lot of different factors interfering with their garden. They know they can’t control everything and do not expect a precise result or outcome at the end of their task. The carpenter is the new parenting model, that most parents try to assume when taking care of their children and Gopnik compares it to a carpenter who picks the material and shapes it exactly the way they want...