While I sketch, I usually have the television tuned to programs I can halfway ignore. TubiTV seems to be the streaming channel that keeps giving in that regard. While it does show a lot of blockbusters and critically acclaimed movies for the entire family, it can always be counted on for drek from the drive-ins and other cinematic atrocities that critics can not possibly defend.
As I said before, these sub-classics are perfect for me because I am free to doodle and still have the background noise of some malodorous melodrama.
Tubi is starting to figure me out as far as recommendations and offered up Girls in Prison from 1956. It starts out with a loopy musical number and proceeds to the gray bar hotel where a bunch of inmates talk tough and plot against one another. It is in black and white so I referred to it as Gray is the New Gray.
Once a program finishes, Tubi automatically serves up another show in a similar vein so once Girls in Prison finished, I was treated to Reform School Girl from 1957. Thematically it was out of order because you would think that Prison would follow Reform School, but I was okay with it as I continued to scribble in my sketchbook. This one had bigger stars such as Edd “Kookie” Byrnes as a car thief and Jack Kruschen after his stint in War of the Worlds but before his Oscar winning performance in The Apartment.
I watched a chunk of Reform School Girl and will have to return to it. The nice thing about Tubi is that if you register and sign in to the channel, it provides the ability of picking up where you left off. Of course, the channel now knows the viewer connected to my email has a taste for garbage. I imagine that I may prove useless to their advertisers.
Oh, well.
Snort… logically, yes…