Comparatively short TV reviews (VM, DNL and WITB)
3-11 Poughkeepsie, Tramps & Thieves
Funny in a leaving me dazed-that-they-were-going-for-the-funny way. Though Veronica and Logan's reactions to Max and his Chelsea-Fiona-Wendy, ooh, and the Keith-Lamb encounters were straight-out funny. I called it during the credits that there would be no Wallace, and lo, there was no Wallace. Um, Max's friends seemed a little unbelievable, and one of them looked like a rough version of Piz.
Keith and Veronica are catching up with what the audience knows about O'Dell's murder and we are getting more tidbits. Could do with more, but do I really care? No. Obviously, I want the killer caught, but I care more about the BSG obsession - I feel so excluded! I have also decided in my head that Madison is yanking with Veronica based on what we know of what Logan did during the break, but the show might undercut that, obviously. But still - Dick AND Lamb's sloppy seconds - eurgh. I consider myself rational about Veronica/Logan, but eurgh to that.
Not much common ground between FNL and WITB, as expected. Maybe a little similarity in the camerawork at times, though WiTB isn't so much about the naturalism.
Friday night Lights 1-18 Ch-ch-ch-changes. This is less a review than a list of some of the highpoints the choices of shot in the Stonehenge 2 scene, Tyra, Tyra, TYRA!, Jason coaching Matt to do the incomprehensible football thing/throw the ball rilly far, Tami's aghast face as Eric dug himself in deeper with Julie while steamrolling her (yes it it a mixed metaphor. And?) His conversation with Julie in the car - is it her fate to be told she's loved in cars? And come to think of it, wasn't there an echo between that scene and Tyra and her mom's scene? And whoa, u-turn, Momma. Affecting as ever.
Wire in the Blood 5-1 something to do with Amber
And the most creepifying show is back! Looking back, a part of me wishes someone would take the police up on their treatment of the paedophile - obviously, the writer wanted to keep him in the cells, but surely Detectve Replacement, sorry, Alex, would have CHARGED HIM for the child porn found on his computer and not kept him in BECAUSE SHE FELT LIKE IT. It's never good when I'm urging lawyers on evildoers. And, in fact, they were left off the hook by the coincidence of the fake crime (abduction) overlapping with the real crimes (Janita's murder/the abuse of Mikey)
And poor Mikey, nicely symbolic and understanding Tony 'driving' with him and saying he'd be willing to talk was fitting on a trite level, but SURELY after everything he'd been through he should have been in a foster home away from the estate.
I found myself shipping Alex and the new head cop reflexively, (still hardcore Tony/Carol even though she is gone) and is he the first chief to be positive about Tony? But then, as he started washing his hands of the amber alert that he initiated I went off him. Alex had some particularly banal dialogue.
But anyway, Tony (and his plastic bag!) and his general weirdnes/'world of sick' - because I seriously sat in tense hunched up fashion from beginning to end, and I don't know if I want to watch next week based on the preview - is back. And ITV are trying to foist cosy murder mysteries on us in the spirit of liking one thing, so you'd like something that is a bit like it, only nowhere near as good.
Silly ITV.
Funny in a leaving me dazed-that-they-were-going-for-the-funny way. Though Veronica and Logan's reactions to Max and his Chelsea-Fiona-Wendy, ooh, and the Keith-Lamb encounters were straight-out funny. I called it during the credits that there would be no Wallace, and lo, there was no Wallace. Um, Max's friends seemed a little unbelievable, and one of them looked like a rough version of Piz.
Keith and Veronica are catching up with what the audience knows about O'Dell's murder and we are getting more tidbits. Could do with more, but do I really care? No. Obviously, I want the killer caught, but I care more about the BSG obsession - I feel so excluded! I have also decided in my head that Madison is yanking with Veronica based on what we know of what Logan did during the break, but the show might undercut that, obviously. But still - Dick AND Lamb's sloppy seconds - eurgh. I consider myself rational about Veronica/Logan, but eurgh to that.
Not much common ground between FNL and WITB, as expected. Maybe a little similarity in the camerawork at times, though WiTB isn't so much about the naturalism.
Friday night Lights 1-18 Ch-ch-ch-changes. This is less a review than a list of some of the highpoints the choices of shot in the Stonehenge 2 scene, Tyra, Tyra, TYRA!, Jason coaching Matt to do the incomprehensible football thing/throw the ball rilly far, Tami's aghast face as Eric dug himself in deeper with Julie while steamrolling her (yes it it a mixed metaphor. And?) His conversation with Julie in the car - is it her fate to be told she's loved in cars? And come to think of it, wasn't there an echo between that scene and Tyra and her mom's scene? And whoa, u-turn, Momma. Affecting as ever.
Wire in the Blood 5-1 something to do with Amber
And the most creepifying show is back! Looking back, a part of me wishes someone would take the police up on their treatment of the paedophile - obviously, the writer wanted to keep him in the cells, but surely Detectve Replacement, sorry, Alex, would have CHARGED HIM for the child porn found on his computer and not kept him in BECAUSE SHE FELT LIKE IT. It's never good when I'm urging lawyers on evildoers. And, in fact, they were left off the hook by the coincidence of the fake crime (abduction) overlapping with the real crimes (Janita's murder/the abuse of Mikey)
And poor Mikey, nicely symbolic and understanding Tony 'driving' with him and saying he'd be willing to talk was fitting on a trite level, but SURELY after everything he'd been through he should have been in a foster home away from the estate.
I found myself shipping Alex and the new head cop reflexively, (still hardcore Tony/Carol even though she is gone) and is he the first chief to be positive about Tony? But then, as he started washing his hands of the amber alert that he initiated I went off him. Alex had some particularly banal dialogue.
But anyway, Tony (and his plastic bag!) and his general weirdnes/'world of sick' - because I seriously sat in tense hunched up fashion from beginning to end, and I don't know if I want to watch next week based on the preview - is back. And ITV are trying to foist cosy murder mysteries on us in the spirit of liking one thing, so you'd like something that is a bit like it, only nowhere near as good.
Silly ITV.