I'd forgotten the intense slapstick aspect of the early show. Heck, they even showed some Three Stooges clips ( Read more... )

Imagine if a TV series aspired to be the next Da Vinci Code, and had already got the budget but the entire source material was half a page from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and half a paragraph from the locale's other famous story, Rip Van WinkleHere's an example of the stupidity. Our Hero is guided to a gravestone in an old church cemetery, and ( Read more... )

Watching Idris Elba in "Luther" and his character is warning somebody about messing with love, saying, "it'll blow up in your face."

But with his accent, it sounds like, "it'll blap in your face."

Come to think of it, I think I've had my face blapped in, once or twice.

It's such a weird and self-consciously stylized show.

But it is helping pry loose the character of Hannibal Lechter from Anthony Hopkins' grasp on it. I always preferred Brian Cox' depiction, back in the movie Manhunter. Now, there was a movie with almost the opposite type of stylization.

I re-watched Season Six of Dexter, and now bits of it make more sense ( Read more... )

I like the characters, the actors, the writing, the look and the humor of the show Warehouse 13, so it took me a bit to figure out what rubbed me the wrong way. At first, I thought it was the, well, semi-idolatry toward various historical figures. But now I've got a better handle on my discomfort: It's the world itself. With the way artifacts ( Read more... )

I was stuck in an auto service place for a few hours a couple weeks ago. Their TV was tuned to soap operas. So I became re-acquainted with soap opera music.

Now I hear the series Caprica has been canceled. It was a prequel to Battlestar Galactica and had a lot of nifty ideas. I liked it more than Galactica, except for the music. The music was ( Read more... )