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Séamas It Ever Was
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I saw a few people I really respect recommending The OA this week. I was shocked because I watched one episode back when it came out and thought it was... not good.

Am now giving it another go. Lads, are we SURE it's not terrible?
The script of The OA seems to be made up entirely of actor's audition monologues. The direction for every performance seems to have been "you are very tired and just about to cry".
Finished the second episode and there are just too many other things I want to do before I die so, yeah, it's a hard pass from me, dawg.
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Séamas It Ever Was
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My mum died 3 weeks before my 6th birthday. Writing a book about my childhood has brought her to mind a lot, so this mother's day I thought I'd share the first piece I ever wrote about that loss.

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When Irish people say "the brits are at it again", this is one such "it" at which it would appear, they are very much at.
A reminder: only ~7% of British people are educated privately, and a fraction of those at schools - like Eton or Winchester - that you've heard of. Those who do, emerge with sufficient self regard they hark back to school rivalries in the Commons, during middle age. Mortifying.
It's like a wedding where the groom's dad goes on a long, in-joke laden speech about the goings-on in the local football club, resulting in raucous, knowing laughter from about 12% of attendees and mortified bemusement from everyone else. But this is that on steroids.
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