Still away at my family's place and deliberately without my laptop, so this'll be a brief one written on my phone.
It's been nice to get away for a couple of days midweek and not have to really think about doing anything useful. One of the advantages of everyone gradually getting older is that everyone is a lot more willing to see "sitting around doing nothing much of value in each other's company" as a perfectly valid use of one's time. To be fair, I've always been up for this, but it's nice to feel like everyone is quite happy to do it.
I introduced my brother to the TV show Taskmaster today, and he really liked it a lot — I had a feeling he would. That show is unironically one of the best things on British television right now, and my brother, having been living Stateside for more than 20 years at this point, finds it interesting that US TV doesn't really have an equivalent format — not one that does particularly well, anyway.
The idea of "game show that isn't really a game show, rather an excuse to lark about" is a British institution at this point. You can trace it back to radio shows like I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and suchlike, but it really came into its own on TV with shows like Shooting Stars and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Taskmaster feels like a step beyond even that by ditching the "quiz" premise altogether in favour of simply tasking its contestants with making a tit of themselves in various ways, but it really works — and has done so for 12 series at this point.
It's definitely a show that consistently brings me joy, so if you're yet to explore it for yourself, I highly recommend it!
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