Category Archives: TV
How HBO’s Chernobyl successfully mixes dramatisation and science.
Representing a non-fiction period piece set in the Soviet Union with English dialogue seems ridiculous. In fact, it is. The question is whether the narrative and performance is capable of sufficiently wrestling your attention away from the elephant’s ginormous arse. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Shcherbyna, bromance, Chernobyl, Emma Watson, English dialogue, HBO, Hiroshima, Jared Harris, KGB, Moscow, Pete Tong, Radiation, self-styled champagne socialist millennial professional types earning 60k a year, Soviet Union, Stalinist, Stellan Skarsgard, TV, Twitter, Ulana Khomyuk is a composite, Valery Legasov
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Binging on Billions
I’m usually not one to judge, but binge watching TV shows is fucking sad, no matter how good they are. You automatically picture someone sitting at home, alone, in their underwear, lights dimmed, eating a takeaway or fattening snacks, watching … Continue reading
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Tagged All That Jazz, Axe Cap, Bill 'Dollar' Stern, Billions, Binging, Bobby Axelrod, Chuck Rhoades, Damain Lewis, Doing Esctacy and Ket like Shaun Ryder, Domination fetish with Domino's pizzas?, Gingerness, Gordon Gekko spliced with Einstein, Harmless Hedonism, Joe Gideon, Jordan Peterson, Machiavellianism, MacOS is incredulous, Mariana Trench, Non-binary pronouns, Paul Giamatti, Robespierre, Roy Schneider smoked himself to death, Showtime, Trumpian court jester, TV, Wags, Wendy Rhoades
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The Handmaid’s Tale – emotive torture porn
In the epilogue to Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale a group of intellectuals argue whether Offred’s account of Gilead’s brutal theocracy was reliable. There is no ambiguity in the television adaptation – so far. The viewer is given full omniscience, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aunt Lydia, Brexit, Can we be trusted?, Elizabeth Moss is boss, Fascism, Fred and Serena, Gestapo, Gilead, June Osborne, Margaret Atwood, Misogyny, Moderates are negligent, Nazi Germany, North Korea, Offred, Orwellianesque, Putin, Saudi Arabia, Sophie’s Choice, Stalinism, Stasi, Theocracy, Torture porn, Totalitarian, Trumpian alt-right wet dream, Trumpian wet dream, Wall's built, Westboro Baptist Church, What does Vegas look like in Gilead
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Mindhunter – intellectual pulp.
We all find serial killers fascinating, and the odder their motivations and crimes are, the better. A quote from Fight Club, a film principally about psychosis induced by immersing one’s self in a materialistic life, explains this intrigue, ‘only when … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Bill, Deviant behaviour, Edmund Kemper, FBI Profiling, Fight Club, Flat tops, Holden, Intellectual Pulp, It's always something to do with the mum, Lecter-lite, Materialism, Mindhunter, Necrophilia in the Trailer Park Boys, Netflix, Psychology, Pulp, Serial Killers, TV, Wendy
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Stranger Things – The X-Files meets the Goonies
Everyone’s experienced that specific frustration – an embittered envy that occurs when someone else has thought of something that should’ve been obvious to you before the fact. Take any ubiquitous modern technology; say Smartphones, they’re so practical and indispensable to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beetlejuice, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Edward Scissorhands, Escapism, Fandoms, Fox Mulder, Heathers, Homages, I want to believe, Joy Division, Matthew Modine, Monotonprodukt 07, Netflix, Nostalgia, Stranger Things, The Bunker brothers are bastards for thinking of this first, The Clash, The Evil Dead, The Goonies, The Smiths, TV, Winona Ryder's terrible wig, X-Files
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