One Mississippi

Sometimes a movie or series comes along just when you need it.  As for me--having gotten up at three for my heart test--the series "One Mississippi" has been precisely the right binge-material for my Zero-Score heart today.  A big thanks to Jan for recommending it!

The Heart Hospital had all their TVs set to Fox to test my heart before running me through the fancy machine.  No heart attack, just an irritable audible noise when the Barbie-doll on Fox said how good it is to have a law-and-order president finally who's going to put these immigrants in their place--a noise that my waiting room companion took as meaning the opposite of what it meant.

Finally, the good-looking man who'd attached my electrodes delivered the news that zero ("Perfect score!")  is the measure of plaque and narrowing of arteries, and that (heart tested in all respects) I'm just not heart attack material looks like, knock on wood.

This funny and poignant series has everything my heart was hungry for: all these so-very-believable people in Mississippi (around Gulfport and Biloxi)--an endearing obsessive-compulsive stepfather, Tig--the daughter and radio deejay/storyteller, and her Confederate-Reenactor brother, Remy, looking for love.

Comedian Tig Nogori  basically plays herself in this "traumedy" that revolves around the months after her own cancer and her mother's unexpected death.

Some of my favorite lines:

"It was a great relief when we divorced, and I discovered that I am a very very fun person."  (Felicia)

"You are SO nice for a hot guy!" (Desiree--a flamboyant woman who sells breast milk on the internet and wears an apron that says, "What would Jesus cook?" )

"Sometimes I feel I'm fooled by the charming narcissist.... And I'm perfect for them because I have a natural curiosity, and I enable them with questions...and it just becomes this magical dance....until it hits that point when the narcissism crystalizes into the personality disorder that it actually is....."(Kate)

My morning cable stations at home were covering Trump  reimbursing Cohen for payments to the porn star and Fox was covering Trump going to a prayer breakfast, no mention of Stormy.

Nobody could make this stuff up.

Maybe one day, after this whole mess is over, somebody will write a "traumedy" about the (hopefully short-lived) Trump administration and Tig and her cast will make it into a series and call it A Dark and Stormy Night in Washington.