and if the man cometh, be ready for the man
on my DVD shelf, right now, the 2 shows getting the most air-time are, in no particular order, The L Word and The Wire.
Maybe I have a thing for double-yoos?
but both of them, i'm on season 2 of each series, are both strikingly similar especially when you consider the juxtaposition of their casts, locations and topics. Or maybe that's an insight into my personality as to what draws me as a person to these shows in comparison to other more highly rated ones.
though i'll find it hard pressed to find a show more highly rated than The Wire.
The biggest difference about them is the fact that while The Wire is on British terrestrial TV (finally!) The L Word has never been considered viable enough to warrant a slot even on the likes of C4, C5 or BBC3. None of the Freeview channels have stocked it, not Virgin nor ITV4. No one. Which screams to me that while The Wire may be on at 11.30pm on account of the language and violence the idea of girl-on-girl action is just too repulsive for the BBFC who would gladly see Steven Segal dismember an evil terrorist engineering team in all its gory detail just after 9pm.
Violence is ok. Sex is forbidden.
Received and understood.
But I lurve the characterisation on both shows, especially when it comes to comparisons between the character's actions linking Season 1 to Season 2. Not least of all L Word's Jennifer Beals. Bett spends three quarters of the first season being a mix of holier-than-thou combined with the calm Obi-wan Kenobi of the bunch who knows everything, can solve any problem and just 'is'.
Cue up season 2 and she's drinking like a fish, smoking like a chimney and at one point goes for a swim in her clothes (she has a pool, as do all rich people in LA) which had me wondering "Christ, she's not gonna drown herself, cos that would suck".
Fortunately she didn't and the Status Quo ending was avoided.
She also says fuck a lot.
What i really love though in L Word is the light.
It's beautiful.
Everywhere you go, from Jenny's apartment to the lots of Burbank, to the dusk picked up on the streets when Dana's shopping is just incredibly well done.
If you look at this alongside movies like Heat or Collateral you can see why a lot of people like LA. Michael Mann in particular.
But the idea that LA looks better at dawn or dusk or at night than during the daytime is portrayed well in The L Word. Jenny's apartment is the obvious example there, more good things happen and more is understood in the darkness with only table lamps or side lights glowing than during the daylight.
*ahem*
Sorry about that, i do tend to see a lot in black and white photographic means. And in that world light is everything.
speaking of black and white photography I've booked a holiday in Krakow in September, hopefully the Polish summer will have abated by then and it'll be nice to chill in the old quarter for a while. You can have tours to places nearby too but i'm not sure if i want to go on those right now. I'll think about it later, closer to the time.
back to the sun. X
Maybe I have a thing for double-yoos?
but both of them, i'm on season 2 of each series, are both strikingly similar especially when you consider the juxtaposition of their casts, locations and topics. Or maybe that's an insight into my personality as to what draws me as a person to these shows in comparison to other more highly rated ones.
though i'll find it hard pressed to find a show more highly rated than The Wire.
The biggest difference about them is the fact that while The Wire is on British terrestrial TV (finally!) The L Word has never been considered viable enough to warrant a slot even on the likes of C4, C5 or BBC3. None of the Freeview channels have stocked it, not Virgin nor ITV4. No one. Which screams to me that while The Wire may be on at 11.30pm on account of the language and violence the idea of girl-on-girl action is just too repulsive for the BBFC who would gladly see Steven Segal dismember an evil terrorist engineering team in all its gory detail just after 9pm.
Violence is ok. Sex is forbidden.
Received and understood.
But I lurve the characterisation on both shows, especially when it comes to comparisons between the character's actions linking Season 1 to Season 2. Not least of all L Word's Jennifer Beals. Bett spends three quarters of the first season being a mix of holier-than-thou combined with the calm Obi-wan Kenobi of the bunch who knows everything, can solve any problem and just 'is'.
Cue up season 2 and she's drinking like a fish, smoking like a chimney and at one point goes for a swim in her clothes (she has a pool, as do all rich people in LA) which had me wondering "Christ, she's not gonna drown herself, cos that would suck".
Fortunately she didn't and the Status Quo ending was avoided.
She also says fuck a lot.
What i really love though in L Word is the light.
It's beautiful.
Everywhere you go, from Jenny's apartment to the lots of Burbank, to the dusk picked up on the streets when Dana's shopping is just incredibly well done.
If you look at this alongside movies like Heat or Collateral you can see why a lot of people like LA. Michael Mann in particular.
But the idea that LA looks better at dawn or dusk or at night than during the daytime is portrayed well in The L Word. Jenny's apartment is the obvious example there, more good things happen and more is understood in the darkness with only table lamps or side lights glowing than during the daylight.
*ahem*
Sorry about that, i do tend to see a lot in black and white photographic means. And in that world light is everything.
speaking of black and white photography I've booked a holiday in Krakow in September, hopefully the Polish summer will have abated by then and it'll be nice to chill in the old quarter for a while. You can have tours to places nearby too but i'm not sure if i want to go on those right now. I'll think about it later, closer to the time.
back to the sun. X