Jewell Starsinger

Well that was boring, then insipid, then horrible. I hope it improves. And why is jaimie in bangs. I have been a fan all along, but this episode is not even close to interesting. Claire has become a bandage lady.

Brilliant. This is my favorite show on TV since Succession. It started a bit slowly, but by episode four I was jonesing for number five. See is layered. It is not apparent until half way through the season that sight may not be such a great thing after all. During the first few episodes I was all for the seeing children finding their good old sighted dad, helping their tribe to get along better; maybe even make life better. But halfway through I realized that the blindness is not about vision itself. The sighted are more blind in some ways. They lose their extra sensory intuitions. The rely on vision and forget their other senses. The blind know where they are. They travel. They move through their environment. They are not crippled. We see them as competent, expert in many ways. They orient through hearing and extrasensory perception. They see in ways the sighted cannot. Like humuns and bees. Humuns can't see ultraviolet light but bees can. It's there, we just don't know about it. Can't see it. We think that the sighted are better off, because we don't want to be blind in a sighted world, but what are we missing? Ultraviolet. This show slowly but surely brings the viewer around to a different understanding of sensual engagement with the natural world. The writers are expanding our concept of the possibilities of perception, reminding us that "just because you don't know about something, does not mean it isn't real." This show will be going deep. Count on it! If the showrunners keep this up, second season will blow our minds.

So far so good! The first episode is excellent, and I don't say that about many shows, even the good ones. First episodes can be tricky, but this is a class act from the get-go. You can look forward to my glowing progress reports.