Fifth episode is Debby Ryan. I caught this before the title song came on.
Sixth? IDK, haven’t seen it. But, based on the title- Mad Dogs and Aliens– I’m going with… Meg Donnelly. I guess we’ll see.
Other stuff… I watched an episode of Recess yesterday. Recess is… a hard show to watch, sometimes. It’s just… too accurate. The other shows on Disney+ that I watch have tended to be stylized extrapolations of things I’ve done and seen. Recess isn’t so much that. There is style and fantasy to it, but there is a ton of reality, too, much more in fact than in any other show I’ve even seen about me.
It’s just… very real. It’s uncanny. The details are so precise, and so true to life in so many aspects. The school faculty, the students, the school itself, the playground behind it, the situations the characters get into… it’s too accurate, too true to life. Even the names are accurate. That school in Recess was Gurnee Grade School, there is absolutely no doubt about it.
It was so perfectly recreated that I don’t get mere flashbacks watching Recess. Watching it, I can actually feel the feeling on my hands of the metal on the old monkeybars. I can smell the wood flooring- something I haven’t done since, well, I left. It’s incredible.
I’m taking that series very slowly, one episode at a time, working through it and digesting everything. It’s an amazing experience. Something like this is probably unique. Honestly, I doubt anyone in history has ever felt the feeling that I feel watching this show. It’s just… I don’t even know. It’s like there literally aren’t words to express this situation properly.
Well, it’s interesting on more levels than just that, too. The experiences depicted in Recess were things I lived back in the 80’s. That is a long time ago, and I think we can assume that the surveillance technology that allowed all of this to come to life has been expanded and refined very considerably since then. Perhaps that would be the disturbing aspect to all of this.
But as for the show itself, I like it. That it’s a hard watch does not mean it’s a bad one. It’s a good show, when judged objectively. It really is.
It’s just… different, I guess. For me, if for no one else.
As for the school itself- it no longer exists. It was torn down 10 years ago for financial reasons. It’s a real shame. There was history there. Real history, far far more than what people realized. Really- that school should have been declared a historical site. Many places have been for far less.
Well… time moves on, I suppose.
Even for me.