On the tv front
May. 7th, 2011 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniHawaii Five-0 is boring !!!!!!!!!!
Sure Daniel Dae Kim is still pretty but I keep yawning. Also I never realised that Grace Park was that tall, probably because most of her scenes on BSG were with Tahmoh Penikett ! Anyway it's a shame that such a good actress is on a show that hardly requires good acting...
That silly show makes me I miss Magnum P.I. I need my Tom Selleck fix ! Two weeks before the next Jesse Stone movie!!!
As for my Internet shows, I enjoyed The Good Wife (could Eli be more adorable?!!!) and I loved the finale of Justified. A good ending for a fantastic second season.
Lots of things that happened weren't very surprising, but the series is that good that it doesn't matter, or rather it doesn't let you linger on second thought about it, it makes you want to be fooled nonetheless, to believe in every scene's tension and thrill along, to embrace the adrenaline-pumping moments even though you should know that some things just can't happen and won't.
The false parlay was great and I'm glad that Johnny survived (he and Tim have potential and have been underused so far). Mags final moments were a swan song for an actress who has delivered terrific perfomances this season. The symetry with the first episode was perhaps a bit too neat, but it was a good end for Mags. She had lost all her children in one way or another which left her little matriarchal kingdom pointless. She could only be a mother in death. And her death was poetic because of its reflection of the murder of Loretta's father, while Raylan couldn't see it that way.
"Bloody Harlan" was very different from "Bulletville", no big showdown between Raylan and Mags, they actually worked together so Loretta would have the chance that none of the Harlan characters had (neither Coover, Doyle, Dickie, Ava, Boyd nor Raylan himself despite his leaving and joining the Marshalls), a chance to change, to get away from that bloody Harlan's life. It's too late for Raylan and I don't think that fatherhood would do the trick either so it's unlikely that he and winona are heading for Glynko after this; as for Boyd he already acknowledged that changing was a delusion. In Greek tragedy gods and the forces of Fate are stronger than men, in Justified it's Bloody Harlan and the Harlan blood that runs in those people's veins, which is their background/youth, that is stronger at the end of the day.
You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive as the song says...
I don't think that Ava will die, but I bet that Boyd has not forgotten his revenge plans and Dickie will pay. Also I wonder whether Ava will carry on the strong woman thing, now that both Helen and Mags are dead.
Oh and I found this interview with Walton Coggins ! I share his hopes for the next season.
Anyway, Olyphant, Martindale and Goggins deserve all an Emmy for their work this season.
I truly adore that show for its characters and its great dialogues. It's going to be a long wait until season 3. These days nobody wears jeans and tee-shirts and denim jacket like Timothy Olyphant! It's like he's invented a new sort of machismo. And Boyd is a new Spike, sort of, the big romantic figure of the show.
Fortunately I have mind-blowing Deadwood to watch (in which Olyphant was quite skinny), and I'll have Breaking Bad during the Summer.
As for the FRINGE finale, it was enjoyable but uneven and I'm worried about season 4. The show surely can provide more brilliant stand-alone episodes but it doesn't always master the twists it comes up with and here it created many problems to itself, so I'm afraid it's going to screw up its own mythology the same way it happened with LOST.
Sure Daniel Dae Kim is still pretty but I keep yawning. Also I never realised that Grace Park was that tall, probably because most of her scenes on BSG were with Tahmoh Penikett ! Anyway it's a shame that such a good actress is on a show that hardly requires good acting...
That silly show makes me I miss Magnum P.I. I need my Tom Selleck fix ! Two weeks before the next Jesse Stone movie!!!
As for my Internet shows, I enjoyed The Good Wife (could Eli be more adorable?!!!) and I loved the finale of Justified. A good ending for a fantastic second season.
Lots of things that happened weren't very surprising, but the series is that good that it doesn't matter, or rather it doesn't let you linger on second thought about it, it makes you want to be fooled nonetheless, to believe in every scene's tension and thrill along, to embrace the adrenaline-pumping moments even though you should know that some things just can't happen and won't.
The false parlay was great and I'm glad that Johnny survived (he and Tim have potential and have been underused so far). Mags final moments were a swan song for an actress who has delivered terrific perfomances this season. The symetry with the first episode was perhaps a bit too neat, but it was a good end for Mags. She had lost all her children in one way or another which left her little matriarchal kingdom pointless. She could only be a mother in death. And her death was poetic because of its reflection of the murder of Loretta's father, while Raylan couldn't see it that way.
"Bloody Harlan" was very different from "Bulletville", no big showdown between Raylan and Mags, they actually worked together so Loretta would have the chance that none of the Harlan characters had (neither Coover, Doyle, Dickie, Ava, Boyd nor Raylan himself despite his leaving and joining the Marshalls), a chance to change, to get away from that bloody Harlan's life. It's too late for Raylan and I don't think that fatherhood would do the trick either so it's unlikely that he and winona are heading for Glynko after this; as for Boyd he already acknowledged that changing was a delusion. In Greek tragedy gods and the forces of Fate are stronger than men, in Justified it's Bloody Harlan and the Harlan blood that runs in those people's veins, which is their background/youth, that is stronger at the end of the day.
You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive as the song says...
I don't think that Ava will die, but I bet that Boyd has not forgotten his revenge plans and Dickie will pay. Also I wonder whether Ava will carry on the strong woman thing, now that both Helen and Mags are dead.
Oh and I found this interview with Walton Coggins ! I share his hopes for the next season.
Anyway, Olyphant, Martindale and Goggins deserve all an Emmy for their work this season.
I truly adore that show for its characters and its great dialogues. It's going to be a long wait until season 3. These days nobody wears jeans and tee-shirts and denim jacket like Timothy Olyphant! It's like he's invented a new sort of machismo. And Boyd is a new Spike, sort of, the big romantic figure of the show.
Fortunately I have mind-blowing Deadwood to watch (in which Olyphant was quite skinny), and I'll have Breaking Bad during the Summer.
As for the FRINGE finale, it was enjoyable but uneven and I'm worried about season 4. The show surely can provide more brilliant stand-alone episodes but it doesn't always master the twists it comes up with and here it created many problems to itself, so I'm afraid it's going to screw up its own mythology the same way it happened with LOST.