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\nIf Section Leader Miles hadn\u2019t been down with that accursed Long Covid thing, none of this would have happened.<\/p>\n
\nIf Section Leader Miles hadn\u2019t been down with that accursed Long Covid thing, none of this would have happened.<\/p>\n
The Big Screen at the end of the Conference Room had apparently been left on an entertainment channel from 10:47 yesterday morning until something approaching 8:00 p.m. No news. No crawl. No emergencies. Just raw, unapologetic personal entertainment.<\/p>\n
We support all three forms\u2014news, culture, and escape\u2014but Miles is usually disciplined about such things. Even now, working from what he calls his office off the Sixth Floor Galley, he keeps Fox murmuring in the background the way some people keep a fish tank. White noise with teeth.<\/p>\n
He hadn\u2019t come down to see how the Production Meeting was going during these dregs of the Old Year. He\u2019d encouraged Melissa and Rocket to turn out something short, solid, and humorous\u2014something to cope with a week where Friday has been jammed into Thursday and 2025 has been abruptly lopped off and carried to the curb with ceremonial respect.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when Ollie showed up.
\nAnd the day fell apart.<\/p>\n
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\nHe came in hot, carrying a torch and a remote control.
\n\u201cThere is a new hit show we\u2019ve never heard of,\u201d he announced, slightly winded from the dash past the Concierge Station. \u201cYou need to witness both seasons.\u201d
\nOllie was fully prepared to change the messaging channel on the big flat screen. Normally this would have triggered resistance. Instead, as an alternative to anything constructive, we agreed.<\/p>\n
What followed was a full-day immersion into Minx, a series none of us had heard of that turned out to be the most electrifying use of post-Christmas holiday time imaginable.<\/p>\n
Season One crept up on us. Splash, skeptical at first, slowly surrendered to the astonishing account of a woman who\u2014sort of\u2014becomes the Queen of modern porn production in 1973. The year some of us graduated from college.<\/p>\n
On the gigantic Conference Room screen, the show detonated in color and confidence. Refreshments appeared from the Galley: good sandwiches, tall pitchers of cold sipping stuff. Attention narrowed. The room changed temperature.<\/p>\n
The clothes alone were a revelation\u2014bizarre, bright, defiant. The death of the Patriarchy played out not as theory but as lived chaos. Issues that once had the Boomers riveted came roaring back, only now rendered in high-definition irony.<\/p>\n
Male genitalia\u2014something we\u2019ve all encountered in context\u2014was splashed across the wall in unapologetic full color. For the women, tops and bottoms were optional, worn or discarded by bold young actresses parading through scenes that would have been unthinkable on a screen this large when they actually happened.<\/p>\n
By morning, the Production Meeting opened to questions.<\/p>\n
The notes from before Episode One suggested we were supposed to continue examining why the 4% of the world\u2019s population living in the United States controls a staggering share of global GDP. Instead, we\u2019d watched twenty-seven episodes from a time when America was busily dismantling itself and calling it liberation.<\/p>\n
It was probably for the best that Miles was out sick.<\/p>\n
He would have been appalled at the state of the Conference Room this morning. We\u2019d show you, but Legal advised laying off the nudity in the Socotra House Daily. Fair enough.<\/p>\n
Maybe we\u2019ll do something serious in the New Year.<\/p>\n
Still\u2014Minx deserves a third season.<\/p>\n
Get on board.<\/p>\n
Copyright 2025 Vic Socotra<\/p>\n
www.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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