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Still in Marking Hell. 21 History papers to go and then I'll have left only 30 Geography papers (quicker to mark as it was just a test not essays).

If the sore throat is any clue, I'm coming down with a cold. Not really surprising given how tired I've been feeling lately. I must have worn a red sign to all the viruses and bugs around saying "welcome guys!".

I watched the finale of Homeland yesterday in the evening, and was torn about it for there are things that I loved and others that were just hugely convenient, contrived and clichesque plot devices. Might post about it later, when I have time...maybe next week.

I got warm and fuzzy feelings from reading this interview with Aaron Paul, especially when he said about Jesse and Walter: "I’m sad seeing it from the character’s point of view, because you know they both have love for each other. But they don’t trust one another sometimes, and they really should".

I haven't been to the cinema for a couple of weeks (M. and I were supposed to go and see J. Edgar last week but it fell through)so despite feeling like I could spend the rest of the day in bed, I'm going to see The Descendants.

Speaking of movies, looks like John Hawkes stroke again in Sundance Festival with The Surrogate. And I have yet to see playing that cult leader in Martha Marcy May Marlene -- that will be released at the end of February over here--, in which everybody says he's also excellent to the point that he should have been nominated again for best supporting role (btw he totally should have won last year for his work as Teardrop in Winter's Bone).

Leaving both Michael Fassbender and John Hawkes out of a nomination list, these days is a just ridiculous, period.

Breaking Bad is a brilliantly written and beautifully acted series, but it is also a very visual tv show, a work of art, providing stunning photography and creative angles.

One of his trademarks is the POV shots, usually from inanimate objects (frying pan, toilet, wood floor, dryer, shovel, sidewalk, parking lot, clipboard, roomba, pizza, bathtub, refrigerator, pool, vent, cleaning brush, etc). Someone collected most of those shots and made a montage. Some are classics, a few are déjà-vu in other works (the inside-the-fridge cam for instance)but others are very refreshing and typical BrBa:

This post is to balance my previous testosterone-filled entry!

I saw many positive reactions on my flist yesterday, and I agree with everyone, that was a very good episode. I still have  a soft spot for "A Study In Pink", probably because it was the first time we saw the updated version but that "Reichenbach Fall" was definitely excellent!

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Take Shelter is a very good film that manages to be about mental illness, the current crisis in America and the end of the world, all at once!

In other words, it's about fear and vulnerability in a middle class family in Midwest, and the tall Michael Shannon is terrific at embodying that paranoid America.

This daring film seems to mix genres, borrowing from Hitchcock and Stephen King, somewhere between the psychological thriller, the social study, the mystical parable, the intimate drama and the disaster movie; it could be a mess, but it's a success. Jeff Nicols masters his subject, the mise-en-scène is flawless, the slow-burn pace is perfect and the photography is beautiful.

It's happeneing again. I can't leave comments on LJ. It doesn't seem to be the same problem as before though, I can type message and even click on the button but my comment is not sent and I got an error message.

I'm using this post to reply to a comment on a previous entry.

So here's my response to your last comment on Justified, trésor:

( For Lij's eyes )

But FRINGE is coming back on Friday and next week, HE will be back (he being Olyphantastic aka Raylan Givens of the Justified fame of course!!!!), in the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky...

I forgot to mention that I watched the last episode of The Good Wife and it was the best episode of this season. Episodes like this are the reason I like that show! Loved it. And Diane rocks.

Also, concerning my BSG re-watchage, I watched "33" and "Water" last week but didn't find the time to post about it, and I'm afraid that now my poor head is too empty to make a proper review.

Here are some thoughts though...

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"Leviathan Smiles " and "Amateur Night" (which Zack Whedon co-wrote) are possibly my favourite episodes of season 3 so far. I loved them to bits.

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It's funny, because I would never say that Seth Bullock had sex-appeal or was even attractive, but Raylan Givens is hot as hell!!!!!

It's all about the character.