Marian Yeager

Spoiler alert! I was intrigued by the premise, and sometimes bewildered. The woman's inner dialogue kept me watching, and the actor was brilliant in it, but I was bewildered when she talked about her beloved dog, Luchs (Lynx), as having died, but then we see him tagging along with her and she pets him, interacts with him, and he's obviously very much alive. When he actually is gone, in a brutal scene that I frankly hated, I found myself wishing I'd stopped watching before the movie reached that point. I can take just about anything in a movie except the dog dying, hence four stars instead of five. Fascination turned to melancholy and now I'm going to hug my own dogs to cheer myself up.

I watched the movie tonight on Amazon Prime. As soon as I saw the dog, Diggidy, I worried that she would die out there. I had no sympathy for Robyn, for putting her dog at risk. She made a choice to risk the dangerous journey that even the Aborigines she met warned her against. The dog didn't have a choice. The dog was suffering because she wasn't getting fed enough, so she scrounged around and ate strychnine while Robyn slept. As soon as the dog suffered and died, I'd had it with the movie and with the woman the movie was based on, and turned it off. My friends are animal lovers and we've laughed about watching movies where people are getting killed left and right, and we only get upset if a dog or horse dies. So I guess Robyn made a lot of money from National Geographic, a book, and this movie. I'll never forget Diggidy. It broke my heart.

Sci fi involving time travel can be really good, absurd, or just plain boring. About half way through the third episode, I gave up. Boredom had been setting in as soap opera took over the plot, and when they reached the scene where strings of dead rabbits were held up as their latest find (after they fought over the last of the vending machine candy), I hit the remote's "off" button. (Abandoned domesticated bunnies that I've rescued and found homes for, along with my own, makes this scene disturbing for me and gave me another reason to dislike the series.) I read that this was considered to be a good series to replace the popular "Manifest", which is far more watchable. (Thank you, Netflix, for rescuing "Manifest," and please keep it going.) The plot, dialogue and characters in "Manifest" held viewer interest. When it was threatened with extinction, organized viewer protests rescued it. I'm not going to wait around for "La Brea" and its boring time travelers to be rescued.

I was floored by Don Cheadle's performance in "Hotel Rwanda," and the movie got good to great ratings from multiple sources, so I had to watch it. Don Cheadle played a completely different character and was amazing. As Petey Greene, he was outrageous, as was his girlfriend as shown in the movie. I hadn't known anything about him, but his radio show put the station on the map. He was beloved in his city, Washington, D.C. Cheadle goes from outrageous to deeply emotional. I don't want to say anything further, other than the supporting cast was awesome, too. Don't miss it!