American Winter

[Love]

I was flipping through the channels and came across this new HBO Documentary - American Winter.

 

http://www.americanwinterfilm.com/

 

I was bawling within minutes of watching this. I started about 20 minutes into the program, and the scene was the mother and son going to the Panera 'pay what you can' cafe for dinner - but its closed. And the mother has no food for her 11 year old son, and she loses it and is so distraught... and the boy tries to comfort her.

 

It hit a little too close to home. My dh and I have had some rough times.... and I did when I was a kid, too. This movie was filmed in my city and reminded me of people I see every day.

 

By the time it was over, I was so angry at all the assholes out there that try to take away social services, and say that people who need help are lazy. Its such BULLSHIT. The woman I mentioned above was poor and broke because her husband died. Not because she was lazy.

 

Everyone should have to watch this movie, especially the fundies and hard core right-wing 'anti social services' types.

[Maggie Mae]

Damn it, why does it have to be HBO?

I can't watch it, unless they find a way to do one of the following:

1.) Allow their products to stream on one of the following: Netflix or Hulu +

2.) Allow people to pick up an independent subscription to HBO Go.

3.) Allow cable customers in Alaska access to HBOGo with a subscription to HBO.

4.) Allow iTunes purchases of any HBO show WHEN IT COMES OUT.

Obviously #3 is the least preferred option. I don't really want to resubscribe to cable TV and pay for premium channels just so I can watch HBO. But I will not even consider it until I get the same level of service as everyone else in the country. I can't stand watching TV on my TV anymore. I'd much rather watch TV at the gym, on my iPad, or at work, on my computer. My house is not where I watch television.

[duplessis3]

Sometimes these appear on Youtube. For real - I saw season 4 and season 5 of Being Human UK on Youtube (and bought it when it came out on Amazon.)