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I wrote earlier wondering what happened to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address?
When it’s your first year, it’s actually called just an “address to a joint session of Congress.” But most normal people still call it the State of the Union.
But people have been asking Jen Psaki, what gives, when is it going to be, especially since Biden himself said it would be in February. Psaki responded that it was never planned for February and she couldn’t say when it would be, but it wasn’t going to be in February.
But as people are beginning to press the question about Biden’s speech and raise questions about the continued National Guard presence and military posture in D.C., a new rationale just got dropped from the person who is now the acting head of the Capitol Police, Acting Chief Yognanda Pittman.
I have expanded my TV menu, bringing in to the Sky fold, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney + and now, along with all the ‘catch up’ options, I am TV a go-go, blaster beside me, trakky bottoms on, tea and chocolate in hand and ‘Ready, set, watch!’. I am now completely up to date with ‘The Crown’, being a little late to that royal shindig, but realising it is a party that you can relish at any time, day or night. I devoured ‘Designated Survivor’, ‘The Bay’ and ‘His Dark Materials’. On the comedy front, how had I not seen ‘Derry Girls’ before 2020? Please, please make a new series soon. I’m almost word perfect on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Big Bang Theory’ and return to them often as though they were a plate of sausage, mash and onion gravy, comforting and cuddling, familiar yet fabulous. ‘Motherland’ and ’Mum’, two rather different perspectives on parenting, but equally enjoyable and how fantastic is Lesley Manville in a beautiful, britt
Barry Jenkins Underground Railroad Gets Amazon Premiere Date TVLine 25/02/2021
After generating buzz for years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ slavery liberation drama,
The Amazon Prime limited series, which is based on Colton Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, will premiere Friday, May 14, the streamer has announced. The highly anticipated adaptation follows Cora (played by South African newcomer Thuso Mbedu), an enslaved young Black woman who is an outcast on the Georgia cotton plantation where she lives. When she hears about an escape network that could free her from the forced bondage she has endured for far too long, Cora decides to risk her life and break free only to discover it is not a symbolic metaphor. Instead,
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