Tag Archives: TV
Sons Of Anarchy is perfect background TV
Let me state right away that Sons Of Anarchy isn’t terrible, just flawed. Partly it’s a victim of heightened expectations, which explain why I tried it to begin with. I saw it regularly mentioned alongside the gold standard of television … Continue reading
Posted in TV
Tagged Baltimore, Basil Exposition, Better Call Saul, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan and Danny Dyer in the same paragraph!, Breaking Bad, California, Covid, Danny Dyer, FBI, Gus Fring, IRA, Katey Sagal, Mad Men, Married With Children, MC, Michael K Williams, Mommie Dearest, Netflix, Omar Little, Roger Sterling, Ron Pearlman, Shakespearian delivery, Shampoo, Sons Of Anarchy, Stockholm Syndrome, The Sopranos, The Wire, TV, Warren Beaty
Leave a comment
Dark may be dark, but its journey is also a lot of fun
During series two of Dark I had, let’s call it, an episode. Who the fuck is that badly burnt fella that’s just appeared on the screen? And what’s he on about? Thankfully Dark’s moments of disorienting opacity are fleeting. This … Continue reading
Posted in TV
Tagged Adam and Eve, Back to the Future, Claudia, German, I want to believe, Jonas, kitsch fandoms, Meticulous, Mulder and Scully, Netflix, nuclear catastrophe, post-apocalyptic, pre-Covid perspective, Prometheus, Rust Cohle, Se7en, Silence of the Lambs, Stranger Things, The Cave, The Lost Boys, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, Threads, Time travel, TV, Winden
Leave a comment
Too Old To Die Young is boring, but worse yet, cynical
When’s the last time you watched something that surprised you? In a good or a bad way? For movies it would be The Skin I Live In. Deadwood was the last TV show, and that débuted nearly fifteen years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in TV
Tagged Amazon Prime, Boring, Cynicism, David Lynch, Deadwood, Dystopian, eccentric Hollywood producer, Ed Brubaker, Jena Malone, John Hawkes, luvvie fashionistas, Lynchian, Martin Jones, Mexicans, Miles Teller, Mulholland Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn, Nihilistic, Orbus Terrarum, paedophile killing operation, Patrick Bateman, Pretty Like Elvis, Taste, The Orb, The Skin I Live In, TV, wanky art-school voyeurs, William Baldwin
Leave a comment
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
Posted in TV
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
Leave a comment
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
Posted in TV
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
Leave a comment
Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
You must be logged in to post a comment.