The Literate Kitty

If a little group of cool people—let’s say, Norwegians —were playing a game of “ What if …” around a toasty fireplace, and were on maybe their fourth round of akvavit shots when one of them said, “You know what I’d kill to watch? What if there was this zombie story… but with that family of undertakers from Six Feet Under … made by someone like The Coen Brothers [you know, Bjørn… the ones who did that Fargo , don’cha know?], in their early days… wouldn’t that be awesome?!”, then we might end up with Netflix's latest entry in the bloodsuckers genre . I have no idea if things went down that way [ although until I learn otherwise, that's totally how I'm gonna imagine it],  but however the idea sprang to life, we now have Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes , because of it (and my Nordic-noir-lovin’ self is thrilled ).  ________________ The premise: A pair of cops—a seasoned female officer and a younger male, still wet behind the ears [both of whom, I should add, appear to com...

When November 1 rolls around each year, you can count on a couple of things. First, every store dramatically slashes the prices on their thematically-bagged candies (as though they’re channeling Michael Myers tracking down neighborhood teens in Halloween ).  Second—and more importantly, here—all of the streamers shift every Christmas-y movie or show to the top of their “trending titles” and “holiday picks” lists (or whatever other catchy phrases they're hoping will elicit clicks).  Once you remove the classics and perennial family-friendly fare, though, what’s left is an ever-growing yet somehow surprisingly-limited Santa’s bag of tricks… with more lumps of coal at the bottom than fabulous gems (no matter how pretty the outer packaging may appear in the promos). I know this … yet still find it impossible to resist at least a couple new holiday offerings each year. [Some people tell Alexa to play Christmas music nonstop; me, I watch a few rom-coms. To each their own, right...