Okay, so my title might be a smidge dramatic, I admit. Nonetheless, I am wasting ample time to be productive. How, you say, am I wasting time? I'll tell you: television. Well not just television but sugary snacks and a pretty empty social agenda too. Nowhere to go, a pantry full of soda and brownies and new episodes of Starz new miniseries "Magic City" has me held hostage at home. I can't escape it, the show I mean. I can live without the sugary shit. The show, "Magic City" airs on the Starz network as previously mentioned and let me tell you, am I hooked. First off, the setting is Miami Beach, in the late 1950s, which is like gold to me, because I LOVE(L-O-V-E) anything from the 1950s and secondly because its set in Miami(tan bodies, martinis flowing like the Nile and pristine white beaches? A gay man's paradise)! Our main character Isaac Evans, a mostly law abiding Jewish hotel owner is also our protagonist, who will do anything to keep his palace, the luxurious Miramar Playa, afloat..and when I say anything, I mean anything. The first episode starts on New Year's Eve 1958 with Ike trying to get his Frank Sinatra New Years party off without a hitch but unfortunately some pesky union strikers are doing all they could to ruin it. Ike is forced to call in a favor with infamous gangster and casino owner, Ben Diamond, who does make them vamoose but goes a step further by killing the strike's organizer Michael Haas, a DA agent and Ike's best friend...needless to say I've been hooked as the story grew more and more twisted and the plot thickened faster than Kirstie Alley at an all you can buffet. But go check it out my loves, so your summer can be just as unproductive as mine. Shoot me an email with comments on it too: nmokaite@gmail.com
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