Yay Netflix for Wii!

June 23rd, 2010

I am so not sorry for giving up my satellite and going to Netflix. I have not missed television at all so far, and have had much more time to focus on watching things I really want to watch and actually spending significant time reading again. I feel like I might even get my calm and my attention span back. I fear to hope, but maybe.

Tonight I watched the most fascinating PBS documentary, the first of three parts. It’s called “This Emotional Life” and the first episode focuses on relationships and why/how they’re important to us. They start at the beginning with attachment and various disorders relating to attachment difficulty, then they move on to discussing Asperger syndrome, bullying and how to prevent it, marriage and why relationships fail and why they succeed. They talk about the importance of friendships, and how we’re affected when we don’t have social ties. I found it totally fascinating and really well done.

They intersperse the various stories with short interviews with celebrities and for some reason I was very touched to hear Chevy Chase talking about how he has three friends. How he misses his wife when she’s not home and calls her just to hear her voice. How he’s struggled with depression. It’s not a good thing, exactly, but a somehow humanizing thing, to hear people we’d think of as successful talk about how they also struggle with these issues.

Anyway! Totally recommend this! Can’t wait to watch the other two in the series and see what they’re all about.