Today was, for some reason, a day to revisit Cracker, a TV series created by Jimmy McGovern. I've had a deep fondness for this series since I first saw it, and that fondness is hardly mysterious in its origins. The protagonist, Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is played by the very large and ungainly Robbie Coltrane -- another of those British (in his ( Read more... )

It's a Monday for endings -- Heroes wraps up its first season tonight, and 24 finally drags itself to a close, its devastated corpse drooling fluids from all orifices like a victim in a H.P Lovecraft story. This has not been a good season for Jack Bauer, and I'm frankly only intending to watch to see how badly they crash and burn -- train-wreck ( Read more... )