The Dropout, Silo, and Dune

I'll check it (The Dropout on Hulu) out.

Now watching Silo on Apple TV Plus, but its current and they're only rolling out an episode a week. Can't binge. Silo: 10 thousand people living a more or less contemporary life as we would recognize it in a giant silo. They and progenitors have been there for generations. Their mythology has taught them that to leave the silo is certain death, and most believe it... but, for a few curious engineering types (they run the silo's generator) who live at the bottom of the three hundred floor giant silo. And, boy, are the engineering types going to get into trouble busting myths... as in curiosity killed the cat?" Of course, the story is a metaphor for American civilization today where most Americans live a sheep like existence, not questioning what their "bettors" tell them. The coronavirus deceit by high US government officials exposed this "sheep phenomenon" in spades. This, of course, has ominous implications for easy acceptance by the sheeple of social credit, externally controlled autos (RIP notion that autos are an avatar of American freedom and independence) and the like. Actors that you'd recognize in Silo are reformed liberal Tim Robbins (do he and Susan Sarandon still get along?) and Will Patten. The female lead is Jessica Haynes.

If you saw the latest Dune movie, you'd recognize Jessica Haynes (Silo) as the mother of Paul Atreides. Speaking of which, the Dune movie remake (2022) of the first half of the Frank Herbert Dune story was terrific. The original Dune (1984) was a box office bomb which has since morphed into a successful cult film. Cultist that I am, I have the 1984 version of Dune in my hard drive and watch it at least once a year. Mid 80's I was browsing in Mr. Eyes optical store in South Miami. I looked over my shoulder and there, also checking out spectacle frames, was Kyle MacLachlan, who played Paul Atreides in the 1984 Dune. I walked up to him and congratulated him on his Dune performance. He was appreciative.

Apropos The Dropout, we're Hulu subscribers, but I haven't watched anything over Hulu... 'cept for one season of the disappointing (for me) "Handmaid's Tale." Spoon.

Amanda Seyfried (Dropout) was very effective playing a plural wife to Bill Paxton (RIP) in HBO's Big Love. On to the Dropout. Thanks for the tip.