Telly stuff - reviews etc
Jan. 15th, 2013 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightHello again. A very quick post about telly stuff, which includes mention of several shows, such as Ripper Street, Utopia (which, no, I haven't watched), Homeland and JM's guest spot in The Wedding Band.
No real spoilers for any of them.
Re: Homeland, I agree entirely with this reaction in today's Guardian to the show winning best TV drama at the Golden Globes. Homeland is a pile of racist s**t. I'm just glad the plot has now got so preposterous that it's unlikely people will take it seriously for much longer.
I didn't like this Sunday's ep of Ripper Street as much as the first two. Torture scenes are a big turn off for me (and I'm sure I'm not the only one), especially when torture is shown as being effective. See that Guardian article again. I will still keep watching the show, though.
The first episode of Channel 4's new genre drama series Utopia is on tonight. I would probably have watched this if it weren't for every critic and article I've seen about it so far mentioning the very graphic torture scene in ep 1. Shall probably give it a miss.
Finally, I just watched the episode of The Wedding Band with JM guest starring (as a (mostly) washed up old rock star). I wasn't really expecting to, but I enjoyed it enormously. JM was great (the character was pretty much Spike-as-a-rock-star, but still..), and I quite liked the other characters too. The only teeth-grittingly awful false note was the other Brit character (really a Brit, I think) guessing that JM's character was a Scouser and being told he'd guessed right. The Beatles (remember them?) were Scousers. Does JM-doing-a-Brit-accent sound like the Beatles? No, he does not.
The stuff with the awful little dog was hilarious, though.
No real spoilers for any of them.
Re: Homeland, I agree entirely with this reaction in today's Guardian to the show winning best TV drama at the Golden Globes. Homeland is a pile of racist s**t. I'm just glad the plot has now got so preposterous that it's unlikely people will take it seriously for much longer.
I didn't like this Sunday's ep of Ripper Street as much as the first two. Torture scenes are a big turn off for me (and I'm sure I'm not the only one), especially when torture is shown as being effective. See that Guardian article again. I will still keep watching the show, though.
The first episode of Channel 4's new genre drama series Utopia is on tonight. I would probably have watched this if it weren't for every critic and article I've seen about it so far mentioning the very graphic torture scene in ep 1. Shall probably give it a miss.
Finally, I just watched the episode of The Wedding Band with JM guest starring (as a (mostly) washed up old rock star). I wasn't really expecting to, but I enjoyed it enormously. JM was great (the character was pretty much Spike-as-a-rock-star, but still..), and I quite liked the other characters too. The only teeth-grittingly awful false note was the other Brit character (really a Brit, I think) guessing that JM's character was a Scouser and being told he'd guessed right. The Beatles (remember them?) were Scousers. Does JM-doing-a-Brit-accent sound like the Beatles? No, he does not.
The stuff with the awful little dog was hilarious, though.
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Date: 2013-01-16 01:44 pm (UTC)It always astonishes me how many people can get to adulthood without having thought through issues like torture, the death penalty, abortion etc. They then wander around expounding their half-baked morality and working it out in public - usually very slowly and rudely - and generally annoying the populace. Surely one of the few advantages of locking teenagers up together in schools for their formative years is it gives them time to work all this stuff out where they can't annoy other people while they do it?
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Date: 2013-01-16 01:59 pm (UTC)The rest of it is probably interesting enough, but this scene goes on for four whole minutes, apparently. I just don't see how that can be justified. Actually, I think I might complain to Channel 4, though I'm always reluctant to complain when I haven't watched/read the thing I want to complain about.
It always astonishes me how many people can get to adulthood without having thought through issues like torture, the death penalty, abortion etc. They then wander around expounding their half-baked morality and working it out in public - usually very slowly and rudely.
Most of the people I've had rows with have had very definite views in actual fact. I've just found them horrific and indefensible.