Soylent Green is on ARTE. It's been years since the last time I saw it, and I'm too tired to mark papers, so I'm watching it. Kinda fitting for a pseudo End of the World's Eve!

And suddenly I realise that some of my favourite fictional characters are named Sol (or Saul), or rather that a character whose name is Sol is usually a terrific character.

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It is an old question in art and literature. Are we what we think we are or are we being fooled and actually living a farce?

Do we really exist just because we are aware of our own existence? Are we sentient beings or the figments of someone else's imagination?

My favourite author, Jorge Luis Borges, once wrote a short story that deals with the issue ( Read more... )

...which makes even sadder the fact that so many good shows, or potentially great shows, got cancelled after one season.

There are exceptions of course, and unfortunately The Killing is one of them, although I didn't have great expectations for this second season. But the less said about that, the better.

On the contrary, The Borgias has gotten ( Read more... )

Looks like nobody had something to say on the death and The Wire entry, that or very few from my readership (if I still have one) have seen the series (which is a shame) and some of those who have seen The Wire were too busy with RL to spend time on LJ (I know for a fact some are), and others prefer not leave comment on my journal for various ( Read more... )

Several posts from my flist make me think of death lately, more precisely fictional deaths and how death is pictured on screen or which "kinds of death" work the most. In RL I'm rather terrified by death, but in fiction I rather "dig it". It's probably the Greek in me that loves tragedy, or perhaps it's the mediaevalist who tends to see works of ( Read more... )

JUSTIFIED returns in January 17 !!!!

Until then, I have a few episodes of Boardwalk Empire left to watch. I have finished season 1 and already up to episode 4 in season 2. I really like the show.
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After a great pilot with beautiful photography and good potential, the season 1 of The Walking Dead was flawed and the flaws obviously are still there this season. Actually, we are 5 episodes in and it's really becoming  a problem for this viewer.

Apart from a good final twist, two weeks ago, episodes mostly consist in nonesenses, boring ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I already did that meme years ago, but it's been a long time so here we go again, although it's more about the tv shows themselves than about the fandoms in the way I see it for I have never been that involved in fandoms (apart from the Buffy one in the old days):

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Woohoo!!!!

Justified is getting Emmy recognition!

Nothing in the drama series category (very unfair given the list and, personally, I think that , for instance, GoT isn't that good,  Mad Men was uneven and Dexter wasn't half as good as Justified this year) but Timothy Olyphant has been nominated for the lead actor in drama series and Wolton Goggins ( Read more... )

The Shadow Line isn't perfect but the production is great, the cast fantastic and what an ambitious show! Kuddos to the beeb for taking the risk. It started as a thriller/cop show but turned out to be a study on morality, filled with religious subtext...very mediaeval actually.

The plot is an excuse but also a complex way to put the viewers  in ( Read more... )