Showing posts with label Merlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merlin. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 November 2011

First World Problems

Me and my chap, have a fairly busy week with rehearsals and because of that we record a lot of television on the Sky+ (other DVRs are available) so much so we've lost some of the things we've not got around to watching. This weekend a concerted effort was made to do some catching up. So we caught up on Dexter season 5 with a few gaps in but they were early enough in the season for it not to matter.

I've also finished the 3rd season of Nurse Jackie which is an incredible watch and so funny, I've really enjoyed seeing where she's ending up. I also really love the peripheral characters like Thor, Mrs Akolitus and Zoey

In addition I finished off watching Spartacus Gods of the Arena which was really good.

That leaves Six feet under - we are 15 weeks behind schedule that is shown on sky atlantic so I think that's out next focus. 

The DVR box now has 25% free and we're going to try and keep up a bit more.

Currently recording: The Ringer, the walking dead, misfits, treme and the big bang theory. Only connect and Merlin. 

We're operating a strict watch then delete procedure.

Also we've received the wire season 2 disc one and the Closer season 1 disc two from Love film… we've got a lot to be getting on with.

We finished watching the first season of the Wire last weekend.  Its something I really enjoyed, it's such a deep show and like Battlestar Galactica before it for the first time we need to only watch two episodes in a sitting else we break our brain.  The plotting is so rich and intricate that it makes it difficult to cope with too much of it in one go.


Tuesday, 2 November 2010

A little bit of magic

I know I've not been the most prolific recently. I've had a fair amount going on in real life which has impeded my tv watching so I've not had a whole lot to say.

In an insane move I've also signed myself up to do NaNoWriMo this year and after years of procrastination I've given myself an ultimatum to write the novel I've been thinking about forever.

How this will impact what I can find to say about TV I don't know so I shall have to wait and see what happens. But to quote Granny Weatherwax. I aten't Dead.

I appear to have picked up a few readers! Which is awesome and I think some of you I don't even know irl. Which is even better I'm finding an audience somewhere  which is good. Please feel free to comment, I live for the knowledge that someone other than me is interested in my blatherings.

While I'm here I kind of wanted to talk about the BBC show Merlin.  Its shown on BBC One on a Saturday night in what I call the Doctor Who slot. It stars Colin Morgan as a young Merlin with Bradley James as Arthur.  There is Morgana and Gwen played by Katie McGrath and Angel Coulby.  Not to mention the best bit Tony Head (giles!) as King Uther and Richard Wilson as Gaius Merlin's teacher.  There are loads of great cameos in the show, episodes veer between funny and dark with plenty of monsters.  Having said that this series has been much darker in tone.  And whilst the show can feel a little bit repetative at times the calibre of guests the show attracts more than makes up for it.

Great Saturday night tea time fayre.


Oh and John Hurt is the voice of the dragon :D