My sister is one of the most important students at NTNU’s Department of Nordistics (or whatever) and Literature, primarily through her role as founder of the departemental body responsible for arranging events related to the relevant field of study (primarily Nordic linguistics and literature, as well as literature in general). Yesterday, she had arrange a [...]
Posts filed in Television stuff
A description for this category?
I thought it was self-explanatory. Oh well, if you’re so daft, I guess I’ll have to spell it out for you: A post tagged “Television stuff” is a post containing some mention of the apparatus we refer to as “television”. Be it TV-series, films on TV, other kinds of shows, or just about anything that’s in some way related to television.
I still don’t quite believe my own eyes…
Because of the extensive coverage of the American presidential election in the last couple of weeks, I’ve suddenly found myself wanting to see the complete West Wing series — of which I’ve seen the occasional season, but never the whole shebang. Subsequently, I go to Amazon.co.uk, search for “west wing”, and get this as one [...]
A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!
In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about!
One of the things you might not know [...]
Angelic Revelation
One of the reasons why I haven’t been much active online lately, is that I spend most of my evenings watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with one or more of my flatmates. We started about a year ago, when one of them asked me to show him a really fun Buffy episode. I chose “Hush”, [...]
Doctor Who, “season 2″ (Tennant’s first)
So. How long did that take me? Seven months, you say? Man, I’m slow.
I guess I ought to write a kind of review of this, but the truth is, I don’t dare. It’s simply been too long since I watched the first four or five episodes, so I’ll limit myself to mentioning a few of [...]
Oh. My. Fucking. Gods.
I just found out that there exists a British television show from 1990 where Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry plays the parts of P.G. Wodehouse’s Wooster and Jeeves. Naturally, all my viewing plans and schedules have been postponed until I’ve downloaded and watched all four seasons.
Not that that means much — I’ve hardly watched any [...]
Wee!
I just found out that episode 11 of Heroes’s season 2 wasn’t the only episode to pass me by; I also missed episode 10!
Veronica Mars, season 3 ep. 9…
Spoilers inside.
Valentine
Heh, one of my flatmates and I just spent the last couple of hours taking cheap shots at Valentine, a rather silly slasher movie from 2001.
A bunch of snotty girls have picked on a nerd all through elementary school, until they in 9th grade get the kid sent away to a mental institution by claiming [...]
Burn Notice, season 1
A couple of months ago, one of my flatmates tipsed me of a TV show called Burn Notice, which he claimed to be some of the best stuff he has seen in years. As this is a guy whose tastes I respect, and who spends most of the day watching TV shows, I thought I’d [...]
Deadwood, season 1
Incredible.
At times I thought it lacked a bit more obvious season plot arc, and I’d liked to see Bullock being more active, rather than just reactive, but those are just about the only objections I have to the show.
Amazing setting, mindblowing characters, spiffy dialogue, and a delightfully rancid humour. One of the best shows I’ve [...]
Moonlight, eps. 1 and 2
It’s as good as the first couple of episodes of Angel, possibly better, with some interesting characters (Jason Dohring’s Josef Konstantin’s a favourite), a sound mythology (excepting a bit of inconsistency what concerns shadows and reflections and the like), and a few moral semi-ambiguities. It’s more pure noir, though, and the dialogue isn’t as sharp [...]
Scrubs 6×15 (or 16)
I converted to the Norse religion a few years back. It just made sense.
— The Janitor.
Scrubs, season 5
Yeah, yeah, I know: they’re occasionally repeating the same jokes, and the whole concept might be getting a tad tired.
But I still love it. I still think it’s fun to watch the Janitor torment JD, I still laugh when Turk tries to stand up to Carla, I still pity JD one moment only to hate [...]
Ugly Betty, season 1
What a nice little show!
Or, perhaps, what a nice, bug (edit: this is obviously supposed to be “big”, but I think the typo’s amusing enough to be spard correction) show, as it’s a 23 episodes long season, with 42-minutes long episodes.
Well, no matter its size, the fact remains that its a nice one.
The characters were [...]
Bionic Woman — another first impression
This series has gotten a bit of hype in SFX in the last months, so I’d thought I’d give it a go. And the pilot looked good. Here’s what I thought of it.
Jaime Sommers is a college drop-out, who’s working in a bar and dating Will Anthros, a surgeon-professor-guy-thing. One night after a date, the [...]
Journeyman — a first impression
I caught the first episode of this show the other day, as one of my flat-mates recommended it to me, and he usually has top-drawer tastes. He might be onto something this time, too, although I remain sceptical.
Because basically, this reminds me of a rip-off of the show “Early Edition”, only instead of getting the [...]
Movies Galore: A Summary
It’s nearly two months since my last movie review — a review, I might add, where I was unreasonably hard on the reviewed movie, as the fact that I’m in a foul mood shouldn’t really count against it. Anyway, since then I’ve watched a lot of movies: excellent movies, great movies, good movies, mediocre movies, [...]
Doctor Who 2006 2×03 School Reunion
Tony Head as a reptile-bat alien disguised as a headmaster.
Awesome.
Firefly
I’m currently watching “FireflY” again, for the first time since December 2005, and thought I’d scratch down a couple of thoughts I’ve had this far.
First of all, “Firefly” was the first Whedon show I watched. Or to be more precise, it was the first Whedon show I like to think I came to know. [...]
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