Some great shows have had their season premieres in the last few weeks; notably, The Walking Dead and Rectify. I’m sure you’ve all heard of The Walking Dead, the zombie apocalypse show where, much like Game of Thrones, no character is safe. The last season ended with a cliffhanger and the premiere was brutal, probably the most brutal thing I’ve seen aside from news footage of actual war-torn countries. It was so brutal I’m wondering why I watch the show at all. What was so different about the violence in this episode that bothered me this much, nearly a week after I watched it? I’m not entirely sure, but I do know I feel taken advantage of/played/somehow complicit in what happened because I watched it happen, which is nuts because it’s a story and not real. Anyway, I don’t want to spoil the episode for anyone, so I won’t say more than this.

If you haven’t watched the first 3 seasons of Rectify, you should rectify that. (See what I did there?) Aden Young plays Daniel, a man wrongfully convicted of murder who spent 19 years on death row. The series begins as he is released based on appeals and evidence that he was wrongfully convicted, despite a (coerced) confession. Season 4 opens a couple of months after Daniel is released, just to give you an idea of the show’s timeline. I started watching the series around the same time that Making A Murderer was released on Netflix and the two compliment each other well.

I wasn’t knitting on Sunday night while I was in the car for 6 hours driving my oldest back to college, but I was listening to music for the first time in a few months. I occasionally go through periods where I don’t listen to music at all and not exercising since stopping roller derby has contributed to this. Anyway, I queued up all 7 albums that I have from Stars, one of my all-time favorite bands. The lyrics to most of their songs are a little more complex than those for the one I’m sharing, Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It, but I love the sentiment of this – it was my theme song for 2013 & 2014.