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2010 in Film and Television

Television

    Better Off Ted – Season 2
    Breaking Bad – Seasons 1-3
    Defying Gravity – Season 1 (a pox on whoever described it as “Greys Anatomy in space”)
    The Good Wife – Seasons 1-2
    Glee – Season 1
    Justified – Season 1
    Little Dorrit (fedora-tip to The Big A for putting us onto this)
    Modern Family – Seasons 1-2
    Nurse Jackie – Season 2
    The Unusuals – Season 1 (fedora-tip to MC Ash for the ah, tip)
    The Walking Dead – Season 1

A toast to Better Off Ted, Defying Gravity and The Unusuals, all cancelled, and all sorely missed.

Breakout television for 2010? Zombies, natch.

Film

    The American
    Boy
    District 9
    Green Zone
    I Love You Phillip Morris
    Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    Kenny
    Let the Right One In
    The Men Who Stare at Goats
    Once Upon a Time in the West
    The Road
    Sherlock Holmes     (2009)
    A Single Man
    Star Trek     (2009)

Film of the year? Boy. God damn your eyes, Waititi.

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Vacuum

In the vacuum left by the season finale of Mad Men, the Fortress Mamea inhabitants have been at a bit of a loose end. We enjoyed a fling with Better Off Ted, had our injections with Nurse Jackie, but they too have gone the way of Mad Men.

I’m at a similar place with my slate. Having reached my writing objectives for the year, I’m now trying to raise my film and TV viewing stats (59 finishes and 33 walk-/turn-offs to date, compared to 2008’s 94 and 19, respectively), as well as my reading stats (there’s a gaping hole from July to September that I don’t think I can make up for). I’ve completed Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (snore) and Close Combat: First to Fight (grin)* but… surely I could be doing something more useful?

We’re chortling through Glee. The Banana Boat writing group is ending the year with a bit of a bash. Only 24 sleeps until Avatar.

And after a few weeks of staring at my development file for the next project and not being inspired… I’ve just had a brilliant idea for my next project, totally out of the blue**.

Suh-weet.

* Not that you asked, but I’m currently chugging through Aliens vs Predators 2 and finding it rather tedious – I think I might join Monty and the boys in their North African campaign sooner rather than later.

** “Out of the blue”. What a crock. It was a fortuitous intersection of: people I know and want to work with; an achievable production budget; and a perfick location.

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