NBC has a new series, “Ordinary Joe,” on Monday nights at 10:00 ET. I really like it and want to share some info about it. It is about Joe Kimbreau, who makes a life-altering choice on the night of his college graduation.
We all make choices and many times they do not mean much, but sometimes they do. In Joe’s case, he had to choose between three paths. The program takes place ten years afterward and shows what happened with each choice.
One choice has him marrying Jenny, his college best friend; another he marries Amy; and with the third he doesn’t marry at all. With these choices he became a nurse, a cop and a pop music star. In each choice, Jenny gave birth to his child that was conceived about a month before graduation.
Each of the first six episodes provided equal time showing Joe and the other major characters with three full and interesting storylines, with some complications. While each storyline is different, it includes the same people in their lives, and while Joe, Jenny and Amy have much different lives, the other characters are pretty consistent in what they are doing. Joe’s choices did not have much effect on them. The seventh episode that aired Monday, November 1, gave a look into the rest of that graduation day of how he made his decision.
When I watch television I usually half watch it and half type drafts of articles and blogs on my laptop. After I watched the first episode, I needed to rewatch it, and now when I watch the later episodes the laptop is closed. At first it was somewhat confusing, but I am used to the format by now with the parallel lives of the three protagonists.
I find this stuff fascinating. I’ve always been interested in things like this and recently told a story about how I got involved in something very significant that would not have happened if just one of about a half dozen things that caused it would not have occurred. I also like to read stories on alternative histories. Also, I previously posted a blog about Stephen Kings’ “11/22/63” which presents a conjecture of what would have occurred if JFK wasn’t assassinated.
I also posted recently about Willie Nelson saying he would not change anything in his life because he was quite happy about where he was in life now. If he changed anything earlier he is not sure that something else would have also changed that would possibly not have him where he is today. That’s how I feel also. What happened, happened, and that was all fed into the blender that poured out my life and current situation. However, I enjoy watching shows and reading about “what if” scenarios and also wondering about them. If you do too, then check out “Ordinary Joe.”
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