Thank God for HBO

Sex and the City

My all time favorite show. It is a story about four aging women going through daily struggle in one of the most fascinating city in the world. I don't think the show is about the sex or the city, not even about love. It is about friendship, which makes this miserable life more bearable. You could be living in the greatest city, having the greatest sex, but if you don't have friends whom you can wake up 2 in the morning to talk, whom love you for who you are even though they know the fact that you are a big loser, then you know you are really fucked up. Ideally family is place for love, but it is not necessarily the place where you could friendship. Compare to love, friendship is more light-weight with less strings attached. Consider yourself really lucky if you have real friends in your family.

Angles in America

This show has the magical-realism style, good story and great acting. As the name suggests there are angles in the story as well as devils. What really touches me deeply is the character Lou, the human. He abandoned his sick lover but gave in to love at the end. He is confused, vulnerable, selfish and weak. Each of these defects reminds me of real human, like you and me. Is there heaven or hell? What are they like? Who cares! They could be just like, say, San Francisco!

Six Feet Under

This is a story about a dysfunctional family (well, which family is not dysfunctional?!) that owns a funeral house business. Everyone was born, raised and lives day in and day out life around death. Everyone is messed up in an unique way, dark sense of humor and disturbing, my favorite flavor. The character I like the most is the youngest kid, the teenage daughter. It is so painful to watch her life like most of the teenager's life. Memory serves as a filter of wonder. I often hear people say how happy and worry-free those young days were. Bullshit! Those were the years of being confused, angry, misunderstood, unappreciated, vulnerable, extremely sensitive, poor, powerless and lonely. If none of these applied to you, I wonder if you were really young once. I personally wouldn't want to live those years ever again. It is funny that for some of the older (not necessarily wiser) people when they talk about/treat the younger generation they sound/act like they were never young before, such a shame!

it is ture that we have to pay extra for it, but thank God for HBO!