Comments | tersa: Media review day: The Prisoner, Black Books, Hemlock, Orange is the New Black, Pandemic (board game)

tersa

Media review day: The Prisoner, Black Books, Hemlock, Orange is the New Black, Pandemic (board game)

Aug 22, 2013 09:13

Round-up post of sorts--I haven't much felt like posting stuff individually, but shotgun? Sure. Time for a media review post!

( The Prisoner (1967) )

tv:orange is the new black, board game reviews, tv reviews

Comments 5

skellington1 August 22 2013, 17:13:11 UTC

I really enjoy Black Books, though I don't think it stands up well to marathoning. Some kinds of comedy are better a bit spaced out.

I also went to see Dylan Moran's stand up in seattle a month or two ago, based mostly on the show. :D

tersa August 22 2013, 17:30:06 UTC

Eeeee, that's awesome. :D How was it?

skellington1 August 22 2013, 17:41:11 UTC

Really fun! Full of generally misanthropic joy. :P

tavella August 22 2013, 17:28:46 UTC

I really like the prison side of OitNB, and Red's flashbacks have been interesting, but oh my god the parts with Chapman's boyfriend and her flashbacks are so so dull. I can understand why they might want to spend more time with her background, even though all I needed to hear was "overprivileged NYC yuppie, makes fancy soap" to know all I needed to know about the contrast in her life. But if you are going to spend so much time on it, you need to do something more with it than "her life and all her friends were two inches deep, at max".

Also, her flashbacks tend to be filled with titillatory lesbianism. Ie, the prisoner who is hitting on her during the movie -- that felt that a genuine interaction there as part of character, while the stuff with her drugdealing girlfriend feels like "guys! I know it's all chicks, but we need you to watch to for the ratings!"

I don't mind continuing to watch, as I hear they spend less and less time with her and more with the other prisoners, but I'm not in love yet.

arysani September 4 2013, 22:40:57 UTC

THERE IS A SHIRT ABOUT THE BEES. <3333

This is the only BB icon I have left, I think. Dear Bernard Black, ILU.

I do still wish I had an icon of the children's book day where Bernard made Manny dress up as a bookworm. Manny's "Bernard, it's hot in the worm" pops into my head whenever anyone talks about bookworms, worms, or hot costumes in general.

(Or when they write a children's book. Which is amazing.)