Comments | trinityvixen: Not really a YEAR in review

trinityvixen

Not really a YEAR in review

Jan 02, 2008 00:06

I don't do the year-in-review memes so much. This is more my own tally of new-to-me pieces of entertainment consumed.

I see that I managed to outdo myself on the number of movies seen this year versus last year. I've seen 50% more movies in 2007 than I did in 2006 (120 versus 81). 120! Crazy! Television seasons completed, despite there being fewer ( Read more... )

spooks, bsg, dexter, prison break, pushing daisies, lost, books, doctor who, resolutions, tv, movies, heroes, smallville, house

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ecmyers January 2 2008, 22:35:51 UTC

I love that your LJ tags act as a kind of summary of this entire post :) I really want to check out MI5/Spooks one of these days.

trinityvixen January 2 2008, 22:41:10 UTC

I know, right? I had to keep adding to the tags as I went along.

Spooks is hands-down thrilling television. Great action, good characterization, fun, smart, and savvy. It's nice that they don't operate under an "us against them" policy--there's a real sense of intelligence operations being more a network than lone offices working against others. The globalization effect is at full force; you just don't get that kind of integrated look at politics of terrorism and security from half-assed attempts in American TV and movies.