Breaking Bad, Avengers, Sleepy Hollow, and Other Fun Stuff
I love the Avengers. It's a unique experience to have a show that spun off from a Movie universe and work very well. It's not the Planet of the Apes, Logan's Run, Swamp Thing, or even Highlander. No, this is like an extension of the movies, with many of the actors from the actual movie playing an integral role in the series. Usually when you go from Movie to small screen, everything gets dumber, smaller, chintzier. Characters are played by actors who sorta look like their movie counterparts or they go in a parallel vein (such as Duncan McLeod, Connor McLeod's also-immortal cousin who has the exact same backstory but better hair), or just a pale immitation (Logan's run and its cardboard sets and not-at-all-the-same-actors cast).
Or Swamp Thing, which the series was better than both movies, but there's only so much you can do with a guy in a waterlogged plant suit in a swamp. Yay. Swampy grows some orchids out of his hands and cures teh cancers. Dick Durrock did a lot of standing in the swamp in that show. I guess it's because the costume weighed about 200 lbs.
Don't get me started on the Beastmaster series. Bleccch.
But this has Agent Hill and Agent Phil Coulson! And they make references to the movies! And Samuel L. Motherf*cking Jackson is supposed to make a cameo! And it has Joss Whedon at the controls!! And production value!!! I like it. It's a long way from "Mutant X" which used to be on the WB station. And was obviously a knockoff of X-Men. And sucked.
Breaking Bad ended. So that happened. I missed out on the majority of the second and third seasons, but still loved the show. It ended perfectly. Probably the best ending for a TV series yet. Or at least the most appropriate way to end it. I hope it set the bar for TV for years to come. Maybe M*A*S*H had a more memorable ending. I don't know. I always thought Alan Alda was a terrible Hawkeye Pierce. Speaking of movies that became TV shows...
Yes. MASH was a movie first. A very good movie. You should see it. Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall. Just brilliant. And it puts the Theme song to the show (Suicide is Painless) in a whole other hilairious light. It wasn't preachy like the series. And Hotlips was actually kinda hot.
Sleepy Hollow, Once Upon A Time, and other shows in this vein are just guilty pleasures. If you don't expect substance or good writing, you won't be disappointed. No, seriously don't. From the Halloween costume warehouse wardrobes to the godawful storytelling, really don't expect anything out of these shows.
Hell on Wheels is just about done, and with a lackluster season like this, I don't think Cullen Bohannon is coming back. But the Walking Dead will be back again. Which is a good thing. Though I gotta be honest, I'm a little sick of the zombies. But at least the writing is pretty good.
Or Swamp Thing, which the series was better than both movies, but there's only so much you can do with a guy in a waterlogged plant suit in a swamp. Yay. Swampy grows some orchids out of his hands and cures teh cancers. Dick Durrock did a lot of standing in the swamp in that show. I guess it's because the costume weighed about 200 lbs.
Don't get me started on the Beastmaster series. Bleccch.
But this has Agent Hill and Agent Phil Coulson! And they make references to the movies! And Samuel L. Motherf*cking Jackson is supposed to make a cameo! And it has Joss Whedon at the controls!! And production value!!! I like it. It's a long way from "Mutant X" which used to be on the WB station. And was obviously a knockoff of X-Men. And sucked.
Breaking Bad ended. So that happened. I missed out on the majority of the second and third seasons, but still loved the show. It ended perfectly. Probably the best ending for a TV series yet. Or at least the most appropriate way to end it. I hope it set the bar for TV for years to come. Maybe M*A*S*H had a more memorable ending. I don't know. I always thought Alan Alda was a terrible Hawkeye Pierce. Speaking of movies that became TV shows...
Yes. MASH was a movie first. A very good movie. You should see it. Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall. Just brilliant. And it puts the Theme song to the show (Suicide is Painless) in a whole other hilairious light. It wasn't preachy like the series. And Hotlips was actually kinda hot.
Sleepy Hollow, Once Upon A Time, and other shows in this vein are just guilty pleasures. If you don't expect substance or good writing, you won't be disappointed. No, seriously don't. From the Halloween costume warehouse wardrobes to the godawful storytelling, really don't expect anything out of these shows.
Hell on Wheels is just about done, and with a lackluster season like this, I don't think Cullen Bohannon is coming back. But the Walking Dead will be back again. Which is a good thing. Though I gotta be honest, I'm a little sick of the zombies. But at least the writing is pretty good.