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First off, a very happy birthday to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gillo !
Also, it's getting cold, although we're still above 0° C in Paris and haven't had snow yet. I'm better than last week. Antibiocs seem to have worked, triggering something that looks a little bit like an exorcism actually, as I've had a running nose since Sunday. Thedevil sickness is leaving my body.
Work is hectic and when I have a couple of spare hours I try to catch up on my thesis so my Internet life suffers.
I still managed to squeeze some streaming time, here and there in Marking Hell, to watch my tv shows:
TWD mid season's finale was okay (flawed yet "entertaining" enough to turn a blind eye on the plot holes) but really frustrating when it comes to a certain character who reminds me of The First Slayer!
Dexter is awful again, writing wise, with no redeeming qualities anymore...The writing improved at the beginning of the season and Ray Stevenson's fantastic performance made it watchable afterwards, but now that he's gone the show has reversed to poor quality. Damn they even managed to waste Jim fucking Beaver!
I think that The Good Wife has jumped the shark and Homeland is very close to do so. *sigh*
But Boardwalk Empire remains. The show provided a satisfying season's finale, both for the mind and the heart. Nothing really surprising but everything really well done. By the way, there's an excellent review by Noel Murray on the AV Club.
The episode was less stellar than the previous one, or rather it didn't give Buscemi the same great material, but I'm left caring for Nucky again – who has gone from a big change since the moment he killed Jimmy to the moment he made up his mind about going full gangster now –. I really liked the character study here, and how this season was Nucky's last temptation for a half-gangster life (his relationship with Billie stressed it out), and Richard's storyline, which has looked so peripheral until now, did echo that...until his final rampage that left his whole face covered in the blood of other people. No longer half-monster and half-man, but a killer who couldn't hide behind a mask.
Richard Harrow's final decision to give up any hope of a normal life with Julia and to remain in the shadows was the perfect counterpoint to Nucky's. Both men resolved to accept what they are: a gangster in Nucky's case and a monster (killer) in Richard's, but it led Nucky to seek out Margaret while Richard, a romantic at heart, ran from Julia.
I also care for the Thomson brothers. The relationship between Nucky and Eli is much more interesting than the Nucky/Margaret storyline, although I don't get the Margaret hate so many viewers express.
As Murray pointed out, the Gyp/Gillian scene was very significant and well done.
And even though Nucky apparently outsmarted Arnold Rothstein at the end, I loved how Arnold was sipping his tea while having fun watching his puppets dance in the scene with Luciano and Masseria. And my favourite dialogue of the episode was:
Doyle: Am I disturbing you?
Rothstein: Yes.
I now have read the chapters about OZ, The Wire and Deadwood in Sepinwall's book (I skipped the one about The Sopranos which I have never watched!).
gillo !Also, it's getting cold, although we're still above 0° C in Paris and haven't had snow yet. I'm better than last week. Antibiocs seem to have worked, triggering something that looks a little bit like an exorcism actually, as I've had a running nose since Sunday. The
Work is hectic and when I have a couple of spare hours I try to catch up on my thesis so my Internet life suffers.
I still managed to squeeze some streaming time, here and there in Marking Hell, to watch my tv shows:
TWD mid season's finale was okay (flawed yet "entertaining" enough to turn a blind eye on the plot holes) but really frustrating when it comes to a certain character who reminds me of The First Slayer!
Dexter is awful again, writing wise, with no redeeming qualities anymore...The writing improved at the beginning of the season and Ray Stevenson's fantastic performance made it watchable afterwards, but now that he's gone the show has reversed to poor quality. Damn they even managed to waste Jim fucking Beaver!
I think that The Good Wife has jumped the shark and Homeland is very close to do so. *sigh*
But Boardwalk Empire remains. The show provided a satisfying season's finale, both for the mind and the heart. Nothing really surprising but everything really well done. By the way, there's an excellent review by Noel Murray on the AV Club.
The episode was less stellar than the previous one, or rather it didn't give Buscemi the same great material, but I'm left caring for Nucky again – who has gone from a big change since the moment he killed Jimmy to the moment he made up his mind about going full gangster now –. I really liked the character study here, and how this season was Nucky's last temptation for a half-gangster life (his relationship with Billie stressed it out), and Richard's storyline, which has looked so peripheral until now, did echo that...until his final rampage that left his whole face covered in the blood of other people. No longer half-monster and half-man, but a killer who couldn't hide behind a mask.
Richard Harrow's final decision to give up any hope of a normal life with Julia and to remain in the shadows was the perfect counterpoint to Nucky's. Both men resolved to accept what they are: a gangster in Nucky's case and a monster (killer) in Richard's, but it led Nucky to seek out Margaret while Richard, a romantic at heart, ran from Julia.
I also care for the Thomson brothers. The relationship between Nucky and Eli is much more interesting than the Nucky/Margaret storyline, although I don't get the Margaret hate so many viewers express.
As Murray pointed out, the Gyp/Gillian scene was very significant and well done.
And even though Nucky apparently outsmarted Arnold Rothstein at the end, I loved how Arnold was sipping his tea while having fun watching his puppets dance in the scene with Luciano and Masseria. And my favourite dialogue of the episode was:
Doyle: Am I disturbing you?
Rothstein: Yes.
I now have read the chapters about OZ, The Wire and Deadwood in Sepinwall's book (I skipped the one about The Sopranos which I have never watched!).