Film, Television, Radio, and Gaming
Following Game of Thrones over the years has been like watching second-tier Bake-Off contestants start really strong on a technical challenge, get confused by the incomplete recipe, run out of time at the end, and ultimately serve up half-baked sludge just so they can get credit for the attempt.
You tried, Weiss & Benioff, but it’s more than a bit claggy, and I really can’t see the layers.
Fare thee well, Peggy. Your squad was mod, your pie and coffee damn fine, and your daughter the prettiest woman in Pawnee.
RIP Ms. Lipton.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The Idiot has this on her homework list.
Homework she’s behind on because she’s watching too much RuPaul’s Drag Race.
I swear, the things I put up with…
Interesting question. I wouldn’t say just Buffy… SMG was cute as a button in Simply Irresistible, for example. Hell, I watched every episode of The Crazy Ones, so I must be at least a little fond of her.
But Buffy-the-show will always be special to me, and Buffy-the-character will always be more than the actor who portrayed her.
Mad Men – S06E01
…wherein Fat Betty proves she’s also Fun Betty.
I’ve decided Brit Marling is a genius. I had my suspicions after watching Another Earth many years ago, where she took both a well-worn premise and the dubious charisma of William Mapother and from them built a beautifully small movie about the biggest of events. But after watching The OA Part 2, I’m convinced she’s the real deal.
She’s out there making feminine —and feminist, I suppose, but more than that— sci-fi, something that very seldom reaches the mainstream, and she’s doing it fearlessly. And for a show that was never really meant to be an ongoing thing, Part 2 does an impressive job of ex post facto world building.
Watch it. It’s weird, but in a wonderful way.
Okay, first, how can this song be 18 years old? An entire generation has grown up in that time… way to make me feel old, guys.
Second, I don’t think we really appreciated how much the low resolution and color bleeding of CRT televisions helped make the visual effects of the era effective… the face-changing thing from this video looked a little less goofy when you couldn’t make out the details.
Either Ian McShane was hard up for cash, or he’s having the time of his life… Deadwood, John Wick 3, and Hellboy, all in one year.
P.S. I still miss my avatar and header image.
“You ever think, Bullock, of not goin’ straight at a thing?”
“No.”
I am unreasonably excited.
