Gracen and Gracen - the Family Corporation...
I spent the last two days christening my new DVD player with the entire series of 'Profit', and it was fucking fantastic.
It's from the nineties and aspects of it are somewhat dated, but it's a great show and the main character is impossibly brilliant - sociopathic, charming, dangerous and yet also comical. So many tiny flourishes as he makes his way through the day - never outsmarted, never too aggressive, always capable, always one step ahead. And at the end of each episode, when he goes to 'bed' - such a haunting image!
The network cancelled it after only four episodes; today it would be a cult hit on FX or HBO ; but in 1996 it didn't really have a place. There is no nudity or swearing, no graphic sexual scenes, no great degree of violence, and yet people were shocked by it. Well, so the blurb on the box says. Perhaps it isn't so much shocking as disturbing; uncomfortable perhaps... but still fantastic. I really recommend it - it's like Richard III set in a major company headquarters.
In other news, my room is really tidy and though I'm very behind on marking I feel pretty good about it all. I promised myself today that, outside of work, I will stop doing things I don't enjoy doing - this means I will not be going to Italy for Rachel's birthday weekend, I will not be going drinking tomorrow for the sake of it, and I will not devote lots of time to people I don't care to listen to.
Our first gig is not far away really - I must practise tomorrow.
It's from the nineties and aspects of it are somewhat dated, but it's a great show and the main character is impossibly brilliant - sociopathic, charming, dangerous and yet also comical. So many tiny flourishes as he makes his way through the day - never outsmarted, never too aggressive, always capable, always one step ahead. And at the end of each episode, when he goes to 'bed' - such a haunting image!
The network cancelled it after only four episodes; today it would be a cult hit on FX or HBO ; but in 1996 it didn't really have a place. There is no nudity or swearing, no graphic sexual scenes, no great degree of violence, and yet people were shocked by it. Well, so the blurb on the box says. Perhaps it isn't so much shocking as disturbing; uncomfortable perhaps... but still fantastic. I really recommend it - it's like Richard III set in a major company headquarters.
In other news, my room is really tidy and though I'm very behind on marking I feel pretty good about it all. I promised myself today that, outside of work, I will stop doing things I don't enjoy doing - this means I will not be going to Italy for Rachel's birthday weekend, I will not be going drinking tomorrow for the sake of it, and I will not devote lots of time to people I don't care to listen to.
Our first gig is not far away really - I must practise tomorrow.