As the great warrior poet, Ice Cube said…
And then books and wind and walking.
…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.
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.
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.).
We’ve all been there: sucked into a conversation we want no part of with no means of escape, casting for something, anything else to talk about.
(Happy NBC picked Southland up for a new, full season. This one’s got legs and a great cast that doesn’t chew the scenery too much.)
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.
um.
“The Return of Jezebel James” is… not good. Parker Posey? Funny. Lauren Ambrose? Funny. Mid-90s sitcom style + laugh track? Bad touch.
Amish tweens figured that shit out the minute KITT turned on his little whchoo whchoo heartlight, come on.
Sars annoyed with the new “Knight Rider” taking 20 minutes to get to and explain KITT’s name. Hee!
“whchoo whchoo” is hysterically accurate. (nb: I haven’t watched the new “Knight Rider” and I won’t need to having read Sars’ review.)
