Well rehearsals are now broken up for the summer and that means there is time to catch up on the TV that I've missed or postponed in the last few weeks because I've been too damned tired to watch most of it. So with that in mind we've already made a bit of a start on things with Breaking Bad. It's an incredible show to watch alternating between something that is very very bleak and being laugh out loud funny if you have a sick and twisted sense of humour.
In addition to that: we series linked the Silence which was shown on the BBC a couple of weeks ago, we're determined also to catch up on Misfits series one too as we were caught out by a technological malfunction when we first tried to watch it.
The big news is tonight though: Sherlock. Written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat its a modern day retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories and quite simply put I cannot wait. Two of my favourite writers colaborating on something delicious.
There's plenty to be getting on with especially when you look to the shelf and find that my copy of Mad Men seasons one and two have arrived and I'm chomping at the bit to get to grips with Don Draper et al.
I'm also fitting in True Blood as and when as my other half turns his nose up at this. I'm still watching the West Wing when I can as whilst the other half enjoys it, he enjoys an episode now and again whilst I like to inhale discs of it. My rewatch of American Gothic is progressing slowly too but I kind of want to savour it. I love the character Selina Kyle as much as I ever did.
Showing posts with label American Gothic. Show all posts
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Sunday, 25 July 2010
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
You learn something new everyday
It might be a cliche, but it is one for a reason.
I recently did a meme on TV programmes past and present and one of the questions was what was your first TV obsession. Thinking long and hard I had to discard Buffy The Vampire Slayer for that honour and Xena Warrior Princess and I dug further back in my mind and realised that in 1995 American Gothic was my first real obsession with a TV show. I taped every single episode of that show and I watched and re-watched until the tapes wore out. At 16 for me, this show was dark, impossibly sexy and I think for the first time I was actively watching a show, looking for clues making up theories with my friends at school and just plain obsessing about the show. It used symbolism and religion as metaphors and I loved it.
Fast Forward fifteen years and I'm now thirty-one and that tv meme I'd taken part in had given me an itch, the only way I was going to get any relief would be to rewatch the show. So I tracked it down: American Gothic (at amazon) and tonight whilst my chap was at a committee meeting I rewatched the first episode.
As the opening credits rolled and the twangly guitar music played it felt like coming home to something I hadn't experienced in a while. But then I noticed the producer David Eick. And I recognised the name because I'm a huge huge fan of Battlestar Galactica. It gave me a fluttery tummy feeling because he's now involved in three of my favourite shows. Rewatching the first episode was kind of strange, partly because I'd forgotten so much, but also somethings had etched themselves on my brain. Also I love Sarah Paulson, I remember thinking her an awesome actress in this back in 95 and I loved her as Harriet Hayes in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Some of the things in the show have dated badly, others not so scary.
So then the credits and I find out that Sam Raimi was executive producer as was Robert Tapert who both were responsible for Xena Warrior Princess amongst a lot of other things that have really made me squee over the years. When I first watched the show I hadn't been interested in who was writing and producing, but these days very much more so. It really tickled me pink to see people I've grown to have respect for from other later projects really managed to get their claws into me when I was young and impressionable. Also a taste for shows which either the networks don't like or general audiences don't.
I'm not sure there's much else of a point to this other than me geeking out but I wanted to share it with people because it sure as hell made me smile this evening.
Keep Buggering On
I recently did a meme on TV programmes past and present and one of the questions was what was your first TV obsession. Thinking long and hard I had to discard Buffy The Vampire Slayer for that honour and Xena Warrior Princess and I dug further back in my mind and realised that in 1995 American Gothic was my first real obsession with a TV show. I taped every single episode of that show and I watched and re-watched until the tapes wore out. At 16 for me, this show was dark, impossibly sexy and I think for the first time I was actively watching a show, looking for clues making up theories with my friends at school and just plain obsessing about the show. It used symbolism and religion as metaphors and I loved it.
Fast Forward fifteen years and I'm now thirty-one and that tv meme I'd taken part in had given me an itch, the only way I was going to get any relief would be to rewatch the show. So I tracked it down: American Gothic (at amazon) and tonight whilst my chap was at a committee meeting I rewatched the first episode.
As the opening credits rolled and the twangly guitar music played it felt like coming home to something I hadn't experienced in a while. But then I noticed the producer David Eick. And I recognised the name because I'm a huge huge fan of Battlestar Galactica. It gave me a fluttery tummy feeling because he's now involved in three of my favourite shows. Rewatching the first episode was kind of strange, partly because I'd forgotten so much, but also somethings had etched themselves on my brain. Also I love Sarah Paulson, I remember thinking her an awesome actress in this back in 95 and I loved her as Harriet Hayes in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Some of the things in the show have dated badly, others not so scary.
So then the credits and I find out that Sam Raimi was executive producer as was Robert Tapert who both were responsible for Xena Warrior Princess amongst a lot of other things that have really made me squee over the years. When I first watched the show I hadn't been interested in who was writing and producing, but these days very much more so. It really tickled me pink to see people I've grown to have respect for from other later projects really managed to get their claws into me when I was young and impressionable. Also a taste for shows which either the networks don't like or general audiences don't.
I'm not sure there's much else of a point to this other than me geeking out but I wanted to share it with people because it sure as hell made me smile this evening.
Keep Buggering On
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