Wentworth is Back! Hooked on Season 4

My favorite current American TV shows include "Treehouse Masters", "The Fosters", "The Americans", "Quantico", and "Big Bang Theory". Also let's face it, we all have our weaknesses when it comes to the TV we watch. My most embarrassing current television weakness is "Sister Wives", probably because its premise is so foreign to me that I find it fascinating psychologically.  I also admit to watching "Naked and Afraid" (although seriously, it is NOT a good idea to go into the wilderness naked and if you are going to do it anyway, please make yourself some shoes and find shelter before worrying about water or food--the order is shelter, water, food!), the various Canadian equivalents ("Alone", etc., though note that their contestants all wear clothes!). 

I know, I know. Everyone says that I need to start binge watching "Game of Thrones" on Netflix, but I'm afraid that once I start, I will never emerge from my apartment. I do enjoy binge watching shows on Netflix and Amazon Prime, particularly while entering data over the weekend. I blame Netflix for my obsession with a wonderful Aussie series "Wentworth" that I have blogged about before - I agree with one post I read that commented how "Wentworth" makes "Orange is the New Black" (which I have also enjoyed thanks to Netflix) seem a little bit like "Happy Days". This remake of "Prisoner Cell Block H" is truly good, gritty TV and I am hooked, largely thanks to some fantastic acting by Pemela Rabe, who plays Joan Ferguson, the former prison governor turned inmate, and Libby Tanner as Bridget Westfall, Wentworth Prison's psychologist and Franky's newest and hopefully permanent love interest now that Franky finally got out of prison at the end of Season 3. 

Season 4 of Wentworth started 2 weeks ago in Australia and airs there on Tuesday evening, so by Wednesday evening I have found the new episodes uploaded on YouTube. 

Pamela Rabe as the psychopathic former Governor Ferguson, aka "The Freak"

Nicole da Silva as Franky and Libby Tanner as Bridget :) 

Wentworth Season 4 Trailer

Mother's Day DC Style

Today for Mother's Day my mother first came over to see our guenon baby at the Zoo. Then after having lunch downtown at the American History Museum, we spent some time at the Natural History Museum, mostly at some fantastic new wildlife photography exhibits, including one filled with photos taken in Africa from one of my favorite photographers, Frans Lanting.

No surprise, my two favorite photos were both of mountain gorillas - the species that started my early fascination and later career with non-human apes:

We then stood in a long line to see the new exhibits at the Renwick Gallery. Once inside we didn't have the patience to stand through the even longer line to get into the upper level exhibits, but here are a few photos from what we did have time to see:

And on our walk back to the Metro past the White House, we came across this man covered completely in silver paint, who had enlisted a passer by while dancing in front of the White House: