(continued from hereI loved the physicality of the show -- and not just the fights, which were remarkable for showing the expenditure of energy and what happens after it runs out. Or, rather, not just the physical fights. Life and its cruelties wear people down on this show just as surely as the action. But what I really loved was how some of the ( Read more... )

I've finished the first nine episodes, so a few things I like (from tumblr* Starting off at the shallow end: Matt Murdock's voice. Charlie Cox changes tone and tempo and timbre and pitch when he speaks as Matt as opposed to in his native speech - slower, lower, a bit of a rumble. It’s not Christian Bale’s Batman voice; he doesn’t sound like he’s ( Read more... )

I watched this past week's Agents of SHIELD, my latest attempt to get into the series, and I suspect I've failed again. It's not that I don't care about what's going on or what happens to the characters, it's that I find myself Monday Morning Quarterbacking everything. It's hard to watch a show when you spend the entire time going "why are you ( Read more... )

* L'shana tovah and a great 5775 to all. May the new year bring only sweetness.

* Finally got my hands on the first TPB of Ed Brubaker's Velvet, which was everything I could have hoped for. A noirish Bond-style spy thriller where Miss Moneypenny turns out to be the Best Bond Ever while hunting down the murderer of the actual Bond character. So, ( Read more... )

* The baseball team is near the end of its misery for 2014, Young Master deGrom's chances at Rookie of the Year notwithstanding. Thankfully, NHL training camps begin this week, leading to 82 chances for frustration and then a playoff season of inevitable heartbreak. I love sports ( Read more... )

* I might have watched the first episode of Outlander, which Starz is letting US residents do for free for now. I think I should be vaguely embarrassed for having read the book, which is not exactly high literature, but I've read worse fanfic. I began it under misleading pretenses -- NYPL assured me it was historical fiction -- but it's all on me ( Read more... )

* Olympics! I am watching next to nothing of them, partially by choice -- I hate the format of 25 minutes of talking heads and sob stories, 15 minutes of competition, and 20 minutes of commercials per hour -- and mostly because I get no television reception. I have gotten to see some of the hockey games, although not the starts of most of them ( Read more... )

Turn, a series about the Culper Ring, with a few recognizable faces:



I'm usually a sucker for these kinds of things, so I hope it's good.

Also posted at DW.

Boob Toob week two: probably the last time I'm going to be caught up because NHL hockey started on Tuesday, my team starts on Thursday, and all bets are off from there.

* Agents of SHIELD: this was not an improvement.

Okay, so back in the '90's, I used to watch syndicated shows like Soldier of Fortune and Pensacola: Wings of Gold and other ( Read more... )

Anything Marvel can do, DC can fall on their face trying to replicate. so... comics on TV. DC has two great ideas! *cough ( Read more... )