Reading And Watching Joyously

 I've seen bits and pieces of Hamilton over the past few years but today was the first time I actually sat down to watch the entire show. 90 seconds in I was blown away by the rhyme and perfection of the first song, and I was mesmerised the whole way through. There were bits of history that I knew and recognised, and a heap of stuff that I didn't know before. I loved the realness of the story, that it didn't try to hide anyone's faults. And the songs, music, lighting, costuming and choreography were incredible. I loved every minute of it. I've been fascinated by Lin-Manuel Miranda lately and this just adds to my esteem of and interest in him.

 Caitlin and I watched this during the week on a day where we had no motivation and wanted something fairly mindless and fun to watch. It delivered exactly what we were after, with a slight variation in the basic dance movie theme but nothing that involved too much thinking. It was enjoyable, not too unbelievable (although we had a couple of complaints - I felt the timeline was inconsistent, there wasn't enough time for the main characters grades to get really bad and then recover again, and Caitlin was concerned at the speed at which the romantic relationship developed given the (undisclosed) age difference, and she noticed that they didn't bother to flesh out the personalities of a couple of the characters) and quite a feel good movie all around. The girls were excited to see Liza Koshy in the cast - a YouTuber they used to watch. The dancing was good, the music was good, it was fun to watch.