Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes interview I love his thoughts about Highclere Castle’s architectural/political history (nice too how he intertwines the two aspects). On writing characters: “You …build on emotional predicaments you have witnessed.” You take their problem with their mother, whatever it is… It’s only ever a lifting-off point.” On the period chosen for the story: “Both ...
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
It’s not often these days that I find myself eagerly awaiting a film’s release– a few too many hype-amplified disappointments over the years. Part of me is in fact hesitant to invest too much emotionally in the expectation of an hour and half’s spectatorship, regardless ultimately of even liking the film or not– but the truth is, I’m hooked here, folks.
The Unusuals
there’s this odd phenomenon that springs from only watching tv streaming via netflix or hulu or veetle or or or… where you, with great glee and zero fanfare, “discover” shows that have already spent whatever brief heyday they may have enjoyed in live network time and now sit relegated, for marketing or ratings or budgetary reasons, to the sarcofagi of video archiving
Grey’s Anatomy rocks my little heart
The truth is I wish life were as legible and constructed as an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. The emotional order of its scripting and plotting, sailing near (surely, to some, plumb over) the edge of cheeze in pursuit of a fine fiction fraught with artificially induced emotional truths a viewer might temporarily embrace, the release ...
Californication
My better half and I have a difference of opinion regarding our media consumption, one case being Californication– which I’ve gobbled up gluttonously via Netflix and love for its scripted twists and turns and which I suspect he finds smug and smarmy. In all fairness, it is definitively smarmy– slinky, sexy smarminess being its veritable ...
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
I can’t say I ever watched this Fox show while it aired a couple years ago (downsides to being an all-web, no commercial cable or satellite t.v. kind of gal)– in point of fact I think I thought it would be silly. I loved the first Terminator movie, largely because of the Sarah Connor/Kyle Reese ...
netflix hates insomniacs
3 a.m. is the cruellest time to throttle streaming video. they must know it, the sadists. sitting watching the percentage load count up, ever so glacially, leaden seconds ticking on– 1%… 2%… 4%… 5%… 8%…
In which I own my love for the Mighty Boosh
Chris, a tireless and intrepid YouTube explorer and fan of Adult Swim, gets me hooked on all sorts of wacked-out video he digs up online, which I’d likely not tumble to left to my own wits– such as the whole Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace / IT Crowd / Mighty Boosh constellation of actors and writers. The ...