Chasing the Rabbit

I have to admit, I often don't understand why something becomes popular. I saw the new Netflix series, Black Rabbit, was number one in the U.S. Nielson ratings so I watched the first episode last night. I don't get it. I mean, good for Jude Law and Jason Bateman, I think they're both good actors. But why is this number one and Jude Law's previous series, Skeleton Crew, not? I guess people really like Jason Bateman. Was Ozark this popular?

Black Rabbit focuses on a New York restaurant founded by two brothers, played by Law and Batemen. Law's character is in charge of the place when the show starts while Bateman's getting into trouble out west. A deal where he's trying to sell a collection of coins to some shady guys instead of at a collector's shop for some reason goes sour and he kills one of them. So he high tails it back to New York.

It's not bad I guess but it's . . . not much. No witty dialogue, no interesting plot twists or fresh premise. It's a couple of guys and a restaurant with some crime thrown in. Maybe it's a slow burn. No idea why this is number one.

Black Rabbit is available on Netflix.

X Sonnet 1965

Aggressive white was pushed with chalk and paste.
A green became a faded black by dusk.
The gleeful ghouls of rot patrol the waste.
Their noses root a blackened pumpkin husk.
Unsated by the candle throat, they burn.
They ravage suns from careful patterns stitched.
From nature find they nothing sweet to learn.
At every chance their sour humour switched.
To rule the body, all the heads were guts.
To covet rule, the brain was turned to squash.
On every candy corn, the strawman gluts.
With stinking orange goo, the bastard washed.
A pumpkin patch is sinking 'neath the bog.
To fill the void, there comes a poison fog.