Honestly, who isn’t? The sixth and final season of Lost, one of the best series ever created, just started and we are sure spending more time talking, reading and thinking about it than watching it. Well, from what we read some mysteries won’t be answered (the real meaning of the numbers, anyone?), but if there's something we've learned from accompanying Locke’s island friends (and enemies) is that the travel is always more enjoyable than the actual place it’s taking you to. Well, not if the smoke monster is trying to kill you.
February 08, 2010
Burn Notice is a USA Network series about a spy who got burned - which they remind you of in every scene. Although following the
basic style of American television, the series will catch all you dudes out there (sorry, girls won't like this) who like watching things explode in the most diverse ways. And like any good spy show, it teaches you how to make homemade bombs with boring things (a modern version of MacGyver). Plus Bruce Campbell is a lead character. And he's looking all Morrissey like.
basic style of American television, the series will catch all you dudes out there (sorry, girls won't like this) who like watching things explode in the most diverse ways. And like any good spy show, it teaches you how to make homemade bombs with boring things (a modern version of MacGyver). Plus Bruce Campbell is a lead character. And he's looking all Morrissey like.
October 13, 2009
Highschool '84: Ray Drecker is king. Girls want to do him, boys want to be him – he’s popular, a sports star and destined for bigger things. Fast forward to today and he's a history teacher and basketball coach at the same school who's house has just burned down and who's wife has left him for a shorter but more successful man. He ain't got no prospects or money. But he's still super hot…and has a big ol’ penis. This is the premise of HBO's Hung. We're reluctant to term the delicate biz Ray Drecker gets into as prostitution, but with the help of a former pity shag, he gingerly decides to capitalise on his, ahem, asset.
August 14, 2009
Instead of another series that explores the lives of yet more doctors, Nurse Jackie depicts instead, the life of it's namesake, a nurse by the name of, well, Jackie. Played brilliantly by the one and only Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie brings a whole other meaning to the term 'leading a double life', seperating her home life and her professional one with a wall bigger than the one in China. It's a scenario that prompts questions about the definitions of what's generally termed as right and wrong in one's everyday life - all the while being 100% sympathetic to the often ethically questionable, yet undeniably noble modus operandus of Nurse Jackie. It's made us realise that we would be the worst nurses, because simply, it would break our stony cold hearts to be that nice to people.
July 08, 2009
With equal parts of drama and humor starts the fifth season of the Showtime series Weeds. By now you should be familiar with Nancy Botwin (as played by the wonderful Mary-Louise Parker) who started selling Weed after her husband died and left her with two teenagers, a useless brother-in-law and some complicated friends. In season four, Nancy chose to work with the DEA to try to stop the narc-traffic around the Mexican borders. Now though, she's going to have to pay after the Mexican drug ring managed to find out this tiny little detail. The only thing that can save her is if she delivers a healthy baby boy that also happens to be the son of the Mexican Drug Lord who's trying to kill her...
June 17, 2009
When we heard first heard that there was going to be a US version of The Office, we frowned in dismay at the mockery that we thought was going to be made of the British institution. How dare they try and bastardise the inescapably English humor, and moreover the inimitable Ricky Gervais with an American edition? Surely it wouldn’t work. It couldn’t. It shouldn’t – but you know what? Against all odds, it did. Steve Carell is as genius as his British counterpart as the head of the Scranton branch of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, and the slew of office off-siders are equally brilliant in this straight faced parody, that can be, at moments, just as touching as it is hilarious.
May 25, 2009
Mad Men is a series based around the advertising business in 1960. The show’s commitment to an accurate portrayal of the era is impressive. The story centres around the charismatic, enigmatic Creative Director of ad firm Starling Cooper: the tall dark and handsome Don Draper, as well as his colleagues, women and work. It’s a peek into the general life and times for both men and women in 1960 as processed through a contemporary vision. Thoroughly entertaining and also humours you into making you feel smarter after having watched it. Nice.
May 05, 2009
United States of Tara is a breath of fresh air. Superbly set and written by Diablo Cody, Tara is a suburban mother of two teenagers, married to the most adorable, supportive husband EVER whilst running an interior art business – as well as managing at least three other personalities. ‘Oh say can you see // By the dawn’s early light’ is exactly how we went through this series – from dusk til dawn. Riveting.
April 22, 2009
Since I set eyes on it´s first season, I’ve been a fan of the HBO’s Flight of the Conchords. The series is about the adventures of an innocent yet fun kiwi duo through the (not so) musical scene of New York with the help of the off-siders Murray Hewitt, Mel and Dave. Unfortunately the series just aired its last episode on the 22nd of March… Never forget Jemaine and Bret!
April 08, 2009
Is True Blood the best tv show of all time? The answer is probably not but don't we all wish we were fang-bangers just to have a taste of the gorgeous vampire Bill? Damn you Sookie Stackhouse!
March 23, 2009
