HNY -Qi

A new year, a new decade and a new home will hopefully result in a new me. My first attempt at discipline will be this horribly neglected blog.  It will start with reflections, memories and revelations.  In order to not bore the reader with endless personal details I will intersperse those with reviews of books [I have read close to one a week for the past couple of years], movies [I have neglected the film world  in the past but am looking forward to attending the Palm Springs International Film Festival once again in 2021] and TV.

I begin with my favorite entertainment discovery of the past decade.  Qi [for Quite interesting} is a BBC comedy/game show.  It has been airing for 17 years with approximately 13 episodes per year.  Do the math and you have days, weeks and months of sidesplitting mirth to binge as quickly as you can.  I watch it on Amazon Prime. Multiple services have made QI available to stream in the United States, including Acorn TV (Series A through G) and Hulu (Series I, J and K).  As of September 2019 only series K-Q are available through BritBox.  It can be a bit frustrating to find some of the episodes in chronological order as the USA streaming seems to have been parceled out.  In any case, all you need to know about the show can be found on Wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI ].

The brilliant and hilarious Stephen Fry is the moderator/host for Series A [1] to Series N [14] during which he relinquished his throne to Sandi Toksvig, a frequent "contestant."  She is as good a replacement for Fry as you could imagine.

The most wonderful aspect of the show is how often it devolves, if you will, into utter chaos with freely flying double entendres, spicy language and tasteful potty humour.  The episodes are generally 30 minutes but with a few XL episodes lasting 45.  Enjoy, please!