Little Drummer Girl - Review and other stuff..

1. Finished Little Drummer Girl -- the BBC limited series that aired on AMC this past fall. Apparently AMC has a deal with British Television and is airing various British television series. Poor PBS, they are no longer the only channel that gets rights to this stuff. Actually the more interesting stuff is ending up on AMC and BBC America. PBS is just doing a lot of historical costume dramas and staid mysteries. PBS needs to up its game.

Anyhow, it's good, but - the spy plot works better than the dual passionate romances. I went to sleep during one of the love scenes -- which was with Kalim.
The description in Wiki and Rotten Tomatoes is misleading. Charlie (the protagonist) doesn't fall in love with Gadi Berker (Alexander Skaarsgard) and Marty Kurtz (Michael Sheen) but with Gadi and Kalim, which made more sense. Although -- I bought the Gadi romance, I did not buy the Kalim romance. I didn't in the book or movie either...so that may just be the fault of Le Carr.
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2. Sleepy Sunday. Pretty day if a little warm. No vertigo headache -- so yay. Am going off salt as much as possible -- because that apparently helps cause it. The last time I had them -- when I scaled back on salt that helped tremendously.
Also lots of antihistimines. I think it's the mold in the air.

Could be anything really. I'm pretty much allergic to everything.

3. Frustrated with the novel I'm reading -- I want the family confrontations. But instead I'm getting boring and somewhat improbable sex scenes. ( Read more... )

"What we do in the Shadows.." and other things

1. In response to co-worker's continuous pestering, I decided to watch "What We Do in the Shadows" via "On Demand", it's not really available elsewhere. And only the last five episodes are available -- which is good, because I tried first two and was somewhat bored.

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ETA: I finished it. The guest stars pop up in episode 10. It has some funny laugh out loud moments, and the characters grow on you...sort of like mildew. (Just joking). But I'm not sure the plot works. Also they are clearly parodying a lot of vampire movies. They tried to get Kiefer Sutherland for a guest appearance, but apparently he turned them down, and the others were impossible. I really wish Tom Cruise took them up on it. That would have been hilarious.

It's very campy, but there are some really funny bits in there...so overall, worth a look. But only the last five episodes are available on demand, unfortunately.

The set-up is a bunch of Slavic vampires hiding out on Staten Island, which may be funnier if you are a New Yorker and familiar with Staten Island.

2. The Good Fight -- is not as good as The Good Wife, or maybe I don't find political satire entertaining when I'm living in a political satire?

3. Has Humanity Reached Peak Intelligence?

I hope not. We're still rather dumb in some respects -- actually a lot of respects.


But hey, we've created IQ tests. Shame we haven't created accurate ones ...but that's not what the article is about. That's me snarking about the article.
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So basically Nethandrals were smart? I guess they'd have to be to survive against the predators back then.

4. Manhattan's West Side had a Power Outtage Saturday night
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5. Nutritional Psychiatry is the Future of Mental Health Treatment

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6. Half of FB is still convinced the sky is falling, and posts about it constantly -- every horrible thing they can come up with. The other half is posting cat vids and personal stuff. So I liked and started following comics pages and joined a GH fandom...just to make it more interesting. One gets tired of "crazy cat video", "my great vacation", "oh no the world is going to end"...after a bit.