TV Slut is Tired.
Jan. 1st, 2014 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI think I've over-dosed on tv today. So far watched:
* The Pick-Up Artist - 1987 movie by James Toback, starring Robert Downy Jr, Molly Ringwald, Dennis Hopper, Harvey Kietel, Danny Aiello, Victoria Jackson, and Christine Baranski of all people. The cast is better than the film. And they are all so young. Downy Jr is almost too pretty - at the age of 21. It was his first real movie role. Off-beat story.
It's about an elementary school teacher who keeps attempting to pick up women in NYC, and falls for a young woman who is attempting to save her father from mobsters.
* Sleepy Hollow - two episodes today, three more to go. Rather hilarious in places.
Favorite bit was Abby and her boss disillusioning poor Icabod regarding his buddy Thomas Jefferson, while they are laying a trap to catch the headless horseman. Apparently there's DNA evidence backing their claim that Jefferson fathered several children with Sally Hemmings, his slave, and to make matters even worse? He took credit for Icabode's line about journalists. Icabode's response? "You really don't know people, do you?" LOL!
* The Tomorrow People - they really need to dump the stupid love triangle, its not working. Other than that I found it entertaining. Rather like the characters of John, Russell, Astrid and Jediah. Cara, I'd like to smack upside the head. And Stephen is a bit dull except when he's with Astrid, Jed, and John.
During these shows - I tell the tv, oh please don't kill off that character, silly writers, I like that character, kill off that other one instead. (Any one else miss the days when you knew with an absolute certainity that they were not going to kill off your favorite supporting characters?? The leads tend to be safe (well except in Game of Thrones, Dexter, Breaking Bad, Once Upon a Time, and oh dear, I've lost count.) OF course in some of these shows, people don't exactly stay dead.)
* The Arrow - In the Arrow, no one stays dead for long, so it's hard to get upset when they kill folks off. They really need to stop using the plot-twist that the villain isn't really dead like Oliver thought - it's getting old. Right now my favorite villain is Rah As Gul, the head of the league of assassins, who has yet to be seen. Except wasn't he a Batman villain? And the Flash, who was introduced as a possible Felicity love interest, strikes me as a tad young.
* Marvel Agents of Shield - attempted to watch the Bridge...got bored, gave up. It didn't hold up well against the others. Lacks good quippy dialogue - which is a big surprise in a Whedon series. Because you know, that's what Whedon is good at.
Now, I burned out and not making it very far into Almost Human.And more shows are premiering soon. Too many to keep track of. Or decide between.
Of the new ones? The following caught my interest:
* Tricia Helfer (Six from BSG) on Killer Women.
* Helix - a Syfy channel horror sci-fi series about an outbreak in a drug lab at the Artic Circle. Ron Moore is producing. It references Alien and is supposed to be scary.
* Strain - the vampire series based on Guillermo Del Toro's novel about a vampire breakout (vampirism as a disease).
* Intelligence - Josh Holloway as a cyberman.
* Outlander - based on Diana Galabadan's time traveling series - premieres on Starz.
* The 100 - about the 100 teens sent to Earth
* Death Comes to Pemberly - PBS
* True Detective on HBO - starring Woody Harrleson and Mathew McConaughy - and it's an anthology series, so each arc is about 10-13 episodes, with a whole new cast for the next one, like American Horror Story.
* The Leftovers - based on the fictional story about those left behind after the rapture, for HBO (not to be confused with the Christian series The Left Behind).
* Turn - AMC - starring Jaime Bell, about Washington's spies during the Revolutionary War
* Resurrection - ABC -which appears to be an US remake of the French series The Returned. (Wish they would just show The Returned - want to see that one.)
Here's a listing : http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/2014-film-movies-tv-preview
Gave me a headache. Golden Age of Television my foot - more like Pop Culture Went Crazy or Exploded.
* The Pick-Up Artist - 1987 movie by James Toback, starring Robert Downy Jr, Molly Ringwald, Dennis Hopper, Harvey Kietel, Danny Aiello, Victoria Jackson, and Christine Baranski of all people. The cast is better than the film. And they are all so young. Downy Jr is almost too pretty - at the age of 21. It was his first real movie role. Off-beat story.
It's about an elementary school teacher who keeps attempting to pick up women in NYC, and falls for a young woman who is attempting to save her father from mobsters.
* Sleepy Hollow - two episodes today, three more to go. Rather hilarious in places.
Favorite bit was Abby and her boss disillusioning poor Icabod regarding his buddy Thomas Jefferson, while they are laying a trap to catch the headless horseman. Apparently there's DNA evidence backing their claim that Jefferson fathered several children with Sally Hemmings, his slave, and to make matters even worse? He took credit for Icabode's line about journalists. Icabode's response? "You really don't know people, do you?" LOL!
* The Tomorrow People - they really need to dump the stupid love triangle, its not working. Other than that I found it entertaining. Rather like the characters of John, Russell, Astrid and Jediah. Cara, I'd like to smack upside the head. And Stephen is a bit dull except when he's with Astrid, Jed, and John.
During these shows - I tell the tv, oh please don't kill off that character, silly writers, I like that character, kill off that other one instead. (Any one else miss the days when you knew with an absolute certainity that they were not going to kill off your favorite supporting characters?? The leads tend to be safe (well except in Game of Thrones, Dexter, Breaking Bad, Once Upon a Time, and oh dear, I've lost count.) OF course in some of these shows, people don't exactly stay dead.)
* The Arrow - In the Arrow, no one stays dead for long, so it's hard to get upset when they kill folks off. They really need to stop using the plot-twist that the villain isn't really dead like Oliver thought - it's getting old. Right now my favorite villain is Rah As Gul, the head of the league of assassins, who has yet to be seen. Except wasn't he a Batman villain? And the Flash, who was introduced as a possible Felicity love interest, strikes me as a tad young.
* Marvel Agents of Shield - attempted to watch the Bridge...got bored, gave up. It didn't hold up well against the others. Lacks good quippy dialogue - which is a big surprise in a Whedon series. Because you know, that's what Whedon is good at.
Now, I burned out and not making it very far into Almost Human.And more shows are premiering soon. Too many to keep track of. Or decide between.
Of the new ones? The following caught my interest:
* Tricia Helfer (Six from BSG) on Killer Women.
* Helix - a Syfy channel horror sci-fi series about an outbreak in a drug lab at the Artic Circle. Ron Moore is producing. It references Alien and is supposed to be scary.
* Strain - the vampire series based on Guillermo Del Toro's novel about a vampire breakout (vampirism as a disease).
* Intelligence - Josh Holloway as a cyberman.
* Outlander - based on Diana Galabadan's time traveling series - premieres on Starz.
* The 100 - about the 100 teens sent to Earth
* Death Comes to Pemberly - PBS
* True Detective on HBO - starring Woody Harrleson and Mathew McConaughy - and it's an anthology series, so each arc is about 10-13 episodes, with a whole new cast for the next one, like American Horror Story.
* The Leftovers - based on the fictional story about those left behind after the rapture, for HBO (not to be confused with the Christian series The Left Behind).
* Turn - AMC - starring Jaime Bell, about Washington's spies during the Revolutionary War
* Resurrection - ABC -which appears to be an US remake of the French series The Returned. (Wish they would just show The Returned - want to see that one.)
Here's a listing : http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/2014-film-movies-tv-preview
Gave me a headache. Golden Age of Television my foot - more like Pop Culture Went Crazy or Exploded.