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The Handmaid’s Tale was my first Margaret Atwood book. It introduced me to her other writing. I’m a fan. So when I heard last year about this television adaptation, I was prepped and ready to hate it hate it hate it so much that I wasn’t going to even bother wasting my time watching it. And then… First …
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43487416 What possessed me to try this show with The Goddess six years ago? Was it recommended to her and I was humouring her? Was it a weak/apologetic/fawning moment on my part? Was there channel-surfing and we got hooked like I did once upon a Wire? At first I swore to …
By Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21898254 I was looking forward to the week’s viewing when I realised that The Good Wife ended last week. Hard to believe it’s been seven years since housewife Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) stood by her husband, disgraced and jail-bound state’s attorney Peter Florrick (Law & Order alum Chris Noth). …
Ten episodes in and I feel like I’m on a hamster wheel where: our heroine, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) catches her nemesis, Kilgrave (David Tennant); Jones’ Greek chorus of friends, family and/or acquaintances sing, Kill Kilgrave else he will continue to murder people; Jones counterpoints with, No, I must not kill him yet somehow he …
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50741037 … a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues — Saga of the Swamp Thing, 24 May 1984, Roots, Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben Alan Moore‘s description of the Flash has always stuck with me, capturing both the speed at which the …
Last year, we took a gamble and tried out the first season of Forbrydelsen, a Danish police procedural. It’s twenty eps long and some licence is taken with the genre but hey, y’know, it’s European and there’s quite a bit of slack I cut for product from that part of the world. It was a …
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With winter tapping politely on the windows and sliding leaves under the doors, it’s that time of year when the Fortress Mamea’s viewing statistics increase dramatically. We’ve a terrible backlog of films and shows, but we’ve begun scraping away at that mountain. — In Plain Sight Season One is interesting in that it doesn’t really …
With a history of Law & Order and The Shield on my sheet*, one might have safely assumed that I transferred my cop show tastes to CSI, Without a Trace, Cold Case and/or Criminal Minds when the runs of L&O, et al finished. Nuh-uh. The flashwhizzbang-don’t-dare-change-channels style of most of them is not to my …
With The Good Wife ending its first season just like it started (but OMG oh-so-different), the inhabitants of Fortress Mamea have been bracing themselves for the fact that this week is chocker with season finales of Nurse Jackie, Glee and (I’m on my own with this one) Justified. Winter 2010 threatens to be a bleak …
This five-ep series about Brit plods trying to deal with space-time-continuum anomalies, fate v destiny, the possible existence of wormholes, and… oh god I can’t fake any more objectivity: it’s shows like this where cliches come to… make more cliches. “[S]adly,… the show’s complete absence of internal logic (or, if you prefer, its overwhelming silliness) …
