“Escape at Dannemora” collaborators Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are reteaming on a half-hour comedy for Apple TV+ starring Arquette and directed by and exec produced by Stiller called “High Desert.”
Apple TV+ has ordered “High Desert,” created and written by Nancy Fichman (“Nurse Jackie”), Katie Ford (“Miss Congeniality”) and Jennifer Hoppe (“Grace and Frankie”).
The series follows Peggy, played by Arquette, a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.
This marks the second Apple series on which Arquette and Stiller will work together. It was previously announced that Arquette would star in and executive produce the Apple drama series “Severance,” which Stiller will direct and executive produce.
The pair previously worked together on the critically-acclaimed Showtime limited series “Escape at Dannemora,” for which Arquette earned a Golden Globe Award as well as an Emmy nomination. Stiller was also nominated for the Emmy for best director for a limited series.
MacDailyNews Take: The quality content keeps rolling in, this time from stars Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller, with each new addition neatly helping to erase the Apple TV+ content issue.
What does it say when broadcast outlets provide more escapist shows like police procedurals and comedies while providing no solutions except middling ones on BP PBS? It says that folks want to be led by the nose, allowing a few at the top to make decisions for them. That’s not democracy; It’s dictatorship. People need to become actively involved in governance but only money talks in Capitalism so normal folks who are poor have a hard time influencing how they are governed. This is the meaning of the rise of BLM, AntiFa, White militia groups, and the newly formed Black, 2nd Amendment, open carry group known as the “Not F***ing Around Coalition (NFAC) who spoke out against the granite sculpture that showed General Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.” All of these have had enough. But Capitalism is prepared with a militarized police force and draconian laws like the Orwellian-named US Patriot Act to destroy them just like it destroyed the Black Panther Party for feeding people thus robbing established Capitalist restaurants of potential customers and for its not-yet-illegal open carry. Outraged White Soccer Moms got White Reagan to sign a racist law prohibiting anyone, but we know it targeted the BPP, to open carry in California. And what about the innocent guy at Ruby Ridge I read about? The message is “Do not deviate; Do not isolate and do not get involved in our politics. You must conform to our established dictates. Be happy. Be best. Just say no to drugs.”
So, I think, that’s what the Capitalist dukes who lead corporation are feeding people, more entertainment, just as Roman caesars entertained the populace with gladiatorial butchery to divert their attention away from their near-starvation misery.
Marxism is a siren song. Marxism only leads to despair and death.
The single greatest story of human achievement of the past 2,000 years is the dramatic rise in living standards of the past 200 years driven by capitalism.
https://www.aei.org/economics/political-economy/dont-tell-bernie-sanders-but-capitalism-has-made-human-life-fantastically-better-heres-how/
And the second-best choice to Capitalism?
Good luck answering THAT one…
“…What does it say when broadcast outlets provide more escapist shows like police procedurals and comedies while providing no solutions except middling ones on BP PBS?”
BP PBS? Does it say we’ve worked all day for the bread now just bring on the damn circus so we can fall asleep?
“…It says that folks want to be led by the nose, allowing a few at the top to make decisions for them. That’s not democracy; It’s dictatorship…”
We don’t want to be led by the nose, but the amount of work it takes to become politically literate is almost like having a 2nd job. It isn’t a dictatorship, it isn’t a full democracy, but it is a Republic. If you can manage to keep it. Is it perfect? No, but it’s still better than anything else I’ve seen. Please show me something better.
“…People need to become actively involved in governance but only money talks in Capitalism so normal folks who are poor have a hard time influencing how they are governed.”
Vote?
“…This is the meaning of the rise of BLM, AntiFa, White militia groups, and the newly formed Black, 2nd Amendment, open carry group known as the “Not F***ing Around Coalition (NFAC)…”
Warmed over cultural/neo-Marxism. How can a 2nd Amendment group be considered cultural Marxism? When the roots of their movement have nothing to do with freedom of the individual and everything to do with attacking the supposed oppressor(s) as well as promoting black nationalist dogma and other racist collectivism. Racism is collectivist by nature.
“…But Capitalism is prepared with a militarized police force and draconian laws like the Orwellian-named US Patriot Act to destroy them just like it destroyed the Black Panther Party for feeding people thus robbing established Capitalist restaurants of potential customers and for its not-yet-illegal open carry…”
How many people do you really know who can tell you about the Patriot Act or its origins? {cough}Biden{Cough}. I kinda don’t think feeding people was specifically the reason for destroying the Black Panther Party, but I’ll hum along.
“…So, I think, that’s what the Capitalist dukes who lead corporation are feeding people, more entertainment, just as Roman caesars entertained the populace with gladiatorial butchery to divert their attention away from their near-starvation misery…”
The funny thing about Capitalism is that it will give you exactly what you want. You decide. You pay. It’s only happy to provide you with what you seek. If you want a replay of the local city council meeting, or what happened in the halls of Congress today, it will provide it. If you want gladiatorial butchery, it will provide it.
Thing is, the vast majority of us are not starving. We are, as history will show, better off than at any other time in the past. Yes, across the globe there are those who are, but year after year their number is decreasing (except maybe in California), and usually the hand of Capitalism can be found.
Better off…