What’s the name of the show and can you post a link?! You’re dealing with short attention span here, let’s be real, can’t expect me to read all your sappy reviews....
In addition to which -- in a note from our sponsor ... 🙂 -- it also figures centrally in "cybernetist" Norbert Wiener's "Human Use of Human Beings":
NB: “I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what.' He will accept the superior dexterity of the machine-made decisions without too much inquiry as to the motives and principles behind these. In doing so, he will put himself sooner or later in the position of the father in W. W. Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw, who has wished for a hundred pounds, only to find at his door the agent of the company for which his son works, tendering him one hundred pounds as a consolation for his son's death at the factory.”
"The Monkey's Paw" no. [One of my favorites. A friend of mine always shuddered whenever I mentioned purchasing ginger hands because that brought to her mind that story.]
A trazillion other classic themes yes, but freshly packaged and as I noted, the casting is wonderful. It might have too long a story arc for your patience, and it's not a show where skipping an episode can be recommended. But it touches all the deepest philosophical bases with delicacy and there's so much heart in it.
Why not? I need something else to follow at the moment.......
What’s the name of the show and can you post a link?! You’re dealing with short attention span here, let’s be real, can’t expect me to read all your sappy reviews....
The name of the show is the first thing you read.
Thanks😑
Now I have to copy, open my Netflix, paste and wait... hope you’re happy inflicting hurt on the lazies
You will be well repaid for your labor.
And Copy doesn’t work on your post... I’m so tired now...
Just type "doom" in the Netflix search box.
I believe you -- though thousands might not ... 😉🙂
But the theme seems rather akin to the classic Monkey's Paw from 1902:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw
In addition to which -- in a note from our sponsor ... 🙂 -- it also figures centrally in "cybernetist" Norbert Wiener's "Human Use of Human Beings":
NB: “I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what.' He will accept the superior dexterity of the machine-made decisions without too much inquiry as to the motives and principles behind these. In doing so, he will put himself sooner or later in the position of the father in W. W. Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw, who has wished for a hundred pounds, only to find at his door the agent of the company for which his son works, tendering him one hundred pounds as a consolation for his son's death at the factory.”
http://asounder.org/resources/weiner_humanuse.pdf
"The Monkey's Paw" no. [One of my favorites. A friend of mine always shuddered whenever I mentioned purchasing ginger hands because that brought to her mind that story.]
A trazillion other classic themes yes, but freshly packaged and as I noted, the casting is wonderful. It might have too long a story arc for your patience, and it's not a show where skipping an episode can be recommended. But it touches all the deepest philosophical bases with delicacy and there's so much heart in it.
Would be nice if Liking a Note also Liked the comment in the post -- Substack, please note -- but thanks for doing double duty. 🙂
But seemed a relevant similarity -- wishing for something and then finding what one asked for has some hidden if not horrific costs.
Though probably less a matter of "patience" than of time.
You gotta watch it. Can't do it justice (and ruins the storytelling) by getting into more of it here.