I wasn't planning to write a review of Green Wing, but it seems I am not going to be able to sleep until I do. First, let me start by saying this is a weird show. I have no problem with weird. There were a lot of things I enjoyed -- enough to keep me watching through almost 20 hours of television in the hope of a satisfying resolution -- but there ( Read more... )

Reposting my reviews of the second season of Luther. I am still pretty underwhelmed, though there is some better writing than in the first season. What am I saying? This show is dead to me! INDIRAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Spoilers abound....

( Episode One )

I've been watching and reviewing the British detective series Luther for the past week (spectralbovine made me do it!), and I thought I should archive my reviews here before they get lost in the shuffle of the interwebz.

Warning: It turns out I do not like this show very much, Indira Varma notwithstanding. There's a lot of graphic violence perpetrated against ( Read more... )

I just finished watching the first half of Silence in the Library, and I must at this point in time reaffirm my love for Steven Moffat. Can't wait to watch the second half! However, I am going to have to since I have a slow and shitty internet connection and it took me about two hours to watch just one 45 minute episode.

Edit: Why am I only ( Read more... )

Those who know me know that I am a huge movie/tv trivia dork. Today I discovered two things that amused me enormously:

1) Watching the trailer for Doctor Who 4.02, which takes place in Pompeii, I spotted Peter Capaldi, who was also in Neverwhere and Local Hero. When I looked up the episode on IMDB, I discovered that he's playing Caecilius, whom ( Read more... )

No Christmas meltdown today. Go me! And I got to watch the Doctor Who special. Fun, that. Looks like we are going to Canada tomorrow.

Well, if that wasn't the most uninspiring pile of MarySueish drivel I've ever seen in my life (outside ff.net), I don't know what is. This Sci-Fi channel version of the Wizard of Oz is inspired by the 1939 film, which, in turn, was inspired by the original book by L. Frank Baum. Any resemblence to Baum's original work has been methodically purged ( Read more... )

My flight out of Chicago was delayed for 1.5 hours. *sigh* Got back into Lancaster at midnight. Have to get up for work at 6:00. No time for a shower. At least, not if I want to sleep at all....

In Summary:
Jason Webley's new album, The Cost of Living is bloody awesome. There's only one song on it that I'm not really sure about yet ( Read more... )

Yesterday Kelly, Cori and I went to see the Sherman House (birthplace of General William T. Sherman) and the Ohio Decorative Arts Center next door. Today we all drove down to see the Hopewell mounds and the Serpent Mound. Good stuff. And this evening I am really, really twitchy because I've been indoctrinating (no pun intended) Cori into the ( Read more... )

House season 4 premier was excellent, as expected, though the case resolution was a bit gut-wrenching ( Read more... )