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The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.

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Watching the last episode of The Good Fight

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Last night, Christina and I watched the last episode of The Good Fight which aired from 2017 to 2022. The show is about a group of lawyers in a black law firm. The initial seasons were about money laundering issues and other typical lawyer stuff. But, as the show progressed, it became very political and, at the end, was firmly making a statement against the current state of the right wing parties, especially in the US, and their ideologies.

Some of the cast members stayed during the six seasons. They are Christine Baranski (Diane Lockhart), Audra McDonald (Liz Reddick), Sarah Steele (Marissa Gold), Nyambi Nyambi (Jay Dipersia), Michael Boatman (Julius Cain) and Gary Cole (Kurt McVeigh).

Interestingly, some of the most prominent cast members departed after a few seasons to be replaced by other characters (and completely changing the narrative).

The initial ones were Rose Leslie (Maia Rindell), Cush Jumbo (Lucca Quinn) and Delroy Lindo (Adrian Boseman) and this was the time where the story was about Maia Rindell’s dad stealing the money of countless people, including Diane Lockhart.

Then, Andre Braugher (Ri’Chard Lane) (RIP), Charmaine Bingwa (Carmen Moyo) and John Slattery (Lyle Bettencourt) arrived and the TV show became more, ahem, mystical and very much political. During our conversation, Christina and I thought that this second arc was very interesting and quite bold (in our current era).

We like The Good Fight. It’s about politics, sure, but also about the struggles faced by black people and women in society. But, at the end of the day, it is also an enjoyable show with fantastic actors. We rated it 8/10.

Ten years of fibre optics Internet at home

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Ten years ago, on 6 June 2014, our copper Internet connection at home was replaced by fibre optics. I was thrilled as I had read that fibre optics allowed for larger bandwidths and, in fact, we got to enjoy 10 Mbit/s for the first time.

This increased speed allowed for new applications: we could watch videos more comfortably and stopped getting the infamous YouTube spinner (probably also because YouTube started having edge servers in Mauritius).

Over the years, our total Internet consumption would increase:

It doubled from 2014 to 2015 and regularly increased (except for 2019 which is an outlier) to stabilise in 2022 (probably because our kids left Mauritius for their higher studies).

From our 10 Mbit/s in 2014, we got 20 Mbit/s on 15 October 2015, 50 Mbit/s on 16 September 2021 and we have been enjoying 100 Mbit/s at home since 19 September 2023.

These days, despite intermittent speed and connectivity issues because of damaged undersea cables, I have to admit that Internet in Mauritius works really great given that the country is so remote. Mauritius Telecom really did great.

We could have used the Internet better

Unfortunately, most people who regularly use the Internet tend to be consumers. For a country as advanced as Mauritius with an educated population enjoying a relatively high standard of living, only a few create original content. I would love to see more artists, more musicians, more YouTubers, etc.

I do contribute from time to time with this family blog (noulakaz.net), my personal blog (avinashmeetoo.com), my own music (avinashmeetoo.com/music) and our website on Mauritian elections (electionsmauritius.com).

I would love to see more Political blogs (with a capital “P”, talking about the future of the country, instead of a small “p”, the politicians).

Who’s interested?