Heroes Volume Five (season 4) trailer
“Redemption” looks promising (T-Bag’s preaching notwithstanding; which is creepy more so than a red flag); maybe that title hints at the writers’ contrition for Volume Four. One hopes.
Side-stepping, a study: “Legend of Korra”: The “Avatar” creators on the new spin-off.
What did you guys think of the live-action version of “The Last Airbender”?
Konietzko: We’re just really focused on this new show right now, and kind of taking this off in its own direction and not concerning ourselves with that right now.
So you didn’t follow the casting controversy about the movie version of “The Last Airbender”?
Konietzko: We didn’t head up that film. We’re just happy to be back generating the original content in this mythology, which is what we do.
Would you like to bring a cartoon version of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” to the big screen?
Konietzko: We would love to. I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the “Avatar” world. We would be really excited.
Awesome.
Everything about Southland is well-done. The everyday, the dealing-with-shit, even chasing bad guys, none of it is tarted up, we’re not told what to think of it. It shows, it doesn’t tell.
The way they cleared that house this week? Kudos to them! It was slow, deliberate, and very quiet.
And Michael Cudlitz’s Cooper cracks me up. “I’m not an addict. I’m not one of these people like your mother’s friends up in Beverly Hills with their ennui, and their Vicodin, and their white wine.”
Ennui! White w(h)ine! So. Good.
…the stark raving existential pain of learning that the world has broken.
Jacob’s review of this week’s “True Blood” (“Time Bomb”). TWoP isn’t what it used to be, but Jacob is great at this (nb: read the recap after you’ve watched the episode).
My thoughts about “Time Bomb” are recursively this: the entire series and this episode each make the other worth the investment.
Yes.
Classic baddie error (Ford Fiesta road test)
The end is pie.
The final 3 episodes of “Pushing Daisies” are running on ABC, Saturday nights. Did you miss the first one last week, too? Sniff.
Also: hey! the WB is useful? Full episodes from the first season of PD if you’re unfamiliar with it (which you shouldn’t be because it is fantastic, even if ABC’s programming department doesn’t. get. it.).
Keely Hawes and James McAvoy pulled off respectable Macbeths. Their respective transitions from shrew to hysteric and big bark to serious bite were slow and metered and, well, fantastic.
(Also the music? Creep. Tastic.)
CSI:NY, Season 3, Episode 1 (Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” is an enabler.)
…clearly Jack Bauer walks the Earth to take on the world’s sins, to thwart what he can, avenge what he cannot and suffer because he must.
That might be a smidge over-the-top, but it’s well-structured and metered and I’m not the sort who can resist that.
Vincent Kartheiser’s scenes were particularly well written and well acted. In contrast to Don Draper –- who gains complexity through the tidbits we learn about his past –- Pete Campbell almost entirely develops in the show’s present.
“Mad Men: Flight 1”, Sarah Rogers, Show Tracker
I haven’t yet watched the 2nd episode of this season, but I love that observation.
