• I also watched the first episode and didn't feel compelled to watch any further. The show purports to deal with mental illness, but what I saw (at least in the pilot) was the manic pixie dream girl (okay, maybe a little older than the dream girl, but still) version of mental illness.

    Making a comedy out of mental illness takes a special touch, and I'm not sure that this show has it.

  • Seamus Heaney is my poetic grandfather (my poetry teacher studied with him, and then I studied with my teacher), and Digging will always have a place in my heart.

    But all time would have to be William Carlos Williams' "Heel & Toe to the End":

    Garagin says, in ecstasy, he could have gone on forever

    he floated ate and sang and when he emerged from that

    one hundred eight minutes off the surface of the earth he was smiling

    Then her returned to take his place among the rest of us

    from all that division and subtraction a measure toe and heel

    heel and toe he felt as if he had been dancing