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May 31, 2010 21:30

So I finished watching jPod this week, the Douglas Coupland's TV adaptation of his own book about a team of freakish genius video-game programmers assigned to the same team by computer error because their last names all started with "J." The show also focuses much more than the book on Ethan Jarlewski's freakish family, who are essentially the ( Read more... )

canadian culture, elsa gidlow, roswell george mills, douglas coupland, tv reviews, lgbt history

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lux_apollo June 1 2010, 03:37:35 UTC
History blog update!

And yeah, now I'm disappointed. I'd heard good things about Jpod... not sure if I want to bother to give it time now, though. Sigh. Though, if the series had a bunch of straight guys rushing to jump into bed with gay men, I think it would start to look more like gay porn than anything else. ;-)

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felis_ultharus June 8 2010, 09:09:30 UTC
It's very, very good otherwise. The lesbian thing comes up in only a couple of episodes - it's heavily concentrated - and grates on my nerves when it does. Otherwise, the series is brilliant, and well worth watching.

(Sorry for taking so long to get back - I somehow missed this on my LJ updates in my e-mail.)

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