What Gheorghe is Watching: Filler

As our brother blog Sentence of Dave is quick to point out, this is an absurdly fertile time in terms of scripted content. (Also in terms of radically insane right-wing batshittery, but that's an entirely different post altogether.) Here are just a few of the things we're currently watching.

"The Penguin" absolutely lives up to its billing. Colin Farrell might as well be a voiceover given the prosthetics required to make him Oswald Cobb, but he's in there - you can see it in the gestures and hear it in the timing and inflections. Even so, Oz isn't the most interesting character in the series. That honor goes to Cristin Milioti's Sophia Falcone. Equal parts psychopath and coquette, the daughter of a slain mob boss father and murdered brother burns with furious, all-consuming vengeance. The eyes, man. The eyes. Let's not sleep on Rhenzy Feliz, who plays Oz's dragooned sidekick. HBO Max is doling out episodes one per week, just like the olden days. Appointment viewing.

Different genre, closer to home, FOG:TB Barry Privett and Carbon Leaf just released their 15th studio album, "Time Is The Playground". The Leaf cognoscenti in your midst didn't love the first single, "Backmask 1983", deeming it a bit poppy for our taste. But we do dig a lot of the other tunes, including the title track.

And one more, much further afield. Somehow, I started following an Instagram account called Cheeky Golf Club. On a whim, three brothers from England set out on a quest to see how long it would take for one of them to play 18 holes of golf without making a bogey. When they started, 230ish days ago, Tim (the brother who plays the golf) was a 13 handicap. He's down to a 9.5, but he's only managed to make 8 straight pars or better to start a round. The boys are cheery and light, and they just surpassed 100,000 followers. Here's to 18 pars.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Cheeky Golf Club (@cheekygolfclub)