Category Archives: Television
2011 on Screen
IMF
The latest Mission: Impossible instalment is around the corner and I’m kinda interested, kinda excited, though not because I’m a fan of either the franchise or Tom Cruise hisself – it’s for the directors who’ve gamely signed on (and the first one doesn’t count because Nobody knew)*: – M:I-2 by a post-Killer, pre-Paycheck John [...]
The Wire Alignment Chart
Make ‘Em Care
See What You Like
The first sex scene does not begin until twenty minutes into the episode. Its a lesbian scene, and it only lasts one minute and ten seconds. The next sex scene happens some minutes later. Its a boy/girl scene and it lasts two minutes. Both sex scenes are shot and edited like an action scene from [...]
Box Watch Update
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 [...]
How We Got Here
The latest abridged script‘s opening made me laugh out loud: EXT. LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES is getting ASS-FUCKED by ALIENS. VARIOUS MARINES IN HELICOPTERS (shouting) OO-RAH! LET’S GO GET THOSE ALIENS! AUDIENCE Yay, they’re getting directly into the action! Maybe this will do that good-movie thing of jumping right in and cleverly filling us in [...]
Homegrown Drama
Sitting down to watch homegrown drama is fraught with the negative reinforcement of many earlier disappointments and – let’s be honest – more than a smidgen still of cultural cringe, all of this tempered by the hope that a) the show’s maybe even half as good as our favourite, and b) we can enjoy it [...]
Box Watch: Suspect Behaviour
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 [...]
