There are those series with which we fall in love at first sight; other stories so meaningful that make us dream about at night, and there are those ones we watch affixed like we’re running a marathon (especially cause we have nothing to do these times due the pandemic circumstances). But forget all these repetitive impressions and feeling about previous experiences watching series (and some have been so frequent). Years and Years starts in a low-profile way and turns into an impressive, intense, astonishing story that passes through our brains like a rotating machine, leads to personal philosophic reflexions and maybe sometimes will make you dizzy. This HBO’s and BBC’s British coproduction reflects a tense period marked by geopolitics conflicts, economic crisis, deep changes on society brought by digital ultra-high technology, nationalism and xenophobia. No news so far, right? But the fact that it’s spotted by the routine and conflicts of a non-orthodox British family from nowadays ac
Yesterday I’ve heard a kind of meme based on a conversation of a couple: the wife asked by WhatsApp ‘could you bring me to an expensive restaurant today, honey?’, to which the husband answered with a suggestion by picture: a gas station. Course that the intention was to joke about the fact that the gasoline is quite expensive, but as usual, it aroused another issue in my mind. Asking for a dinner in an expensive restaurant means something special based on the price of its menu. She spoke it as something natural, like a bias and not exactly aware, but it spots how the products gain a conception of being special, high-level, something different from all the others, just because it costs much more than the average. That is an evidence of how goods are involved by fantasy, wishes, personal or social expectations – it reminded me Karl Marx. If it’s pretty much expensive, if it’s used by that Hollywood star or that famous singer of the moment... by this way, a product is not a functional obj