‘Lewis’ promo
Mmmm.
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ promo
Oh yes.
‘Clean Break’ promo
No.
Best Line:
“I had to leave them there. Tied to a tree.”
‘The Leftovers’ season 2 promo
No.
Best Line:
“There are no miracles in miracle.”
‘The Last King of Scotland’ (2006) promo
Nope, an illusion of tension.
‘Nick of Time’ (1995) promo
No.
Dark orange choc - yum.
Lemonade - good.
Choc with nibs - yum.
I slept through the supermoon!
RIP Log Lady.
Poor Kaley Cuoco and her horrible upside down wedding cake.
‘West Side Story’ (1961) is not a good film.
I will review ‘The Second Lady’, ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E’ season 1, ‘The Cry’, ‘The Sudden Departure of the Frasers’, ‘Rich Deceiver’, ‘Magic and Loss’, ‘We Will All Go Down Together’, ‘Forces From Beyond’, ‘Failure of Moonlight’, ‘Child of Two Worlds’ and ‘The Bog’.
Remember Penguin bars? Or when scrunch curls were a thing?
‘The Guardian’ Quote:
“A fetid turd.”
‘Right Hand Magic’ Quotes:
“Allow me to befoul myself with delight.”
“Genuinely surprised that someone might take offence at his hurling balls of molten death in public.”
“Steer clear of the maze. Humans were never meant to navigate it.”
“Is it dangerous?”
“It can be, if it has a mind to.”
“What a he-ho. I hope you burned the sheets.”
‘Better Off Dead’ Quotes:
“Mellow off.”
“I think it would be entirely beneficial if you were to re-enter the sociological mainstream by re-engaging in the ritual act of dating members of the opposite sex.”
“You gotta have pride and class in this business.”
“I’m real sorry your mom blew up.”
‘Due South’ Quote:
“It might be love; then again it might be worms.”
‘The Big Bang Theory’ Quote:
”My breath smells like fly!”
‘The Irish Times’ Quote:
“A rogue sac of pus deep in his pelvis. Then his ankle becomes infected, and the reader winces as a surgeon slices open the inflamed joint. The pus Gerrard informs us forensically, took eight minutes to drain.”
‘Kingdom of Heaven’ Quotes:
“Would I had fought you when you were still capable of making bastards.”
“I knew your mother when she was making hers. Fortunately, you’re too old to be one of mine.”
“I once fought for two days with an arrow through my testicle.”
‘Dr Phil’ Quotes:
“Never been included.”
“Make fiascos that were needless.”
“Tickling time.”
“Did you fake a heart attack?”
‘The Affair of the Poisons’ Quote:
”They had to be fully dressed, bejewelled, tight-laced into their bodices, ready to travel to Flanders or further...to be cheerful and good company, move about, seem not to notice heat or cold or draughts or dust, and all punctual to the moment, giving no trouble of any kind...As for the needs of nature they could not be mentioned...To feel sick was an unforgivable crime.”
‘The Sunday Times’ Quotes:
“Cold and unimportant little island.”
“Live mainly on herrings and potatoes.”
“Previously unimaginable.”
“So implausible as to be downright risible.”
“Was smelly and unhygienic.”
“His private life was just too rackety for him to be a proper spy.”
“Establishment insouciance.”
“Prodigiously promiscuous.”
“A little too conventionally structured to convey the absolute weirdness of its subject.”
“Unhappy and enforced Russian exile.”
“Rather tragically sought out British visitors who might bring him English delicacies.”
“Perky, half-baked longing somehow to be someone.”
“Depressingly sad story.”
“Apparently simple chancers.”
“Something that was never intended for you.”
“Hilarity and mirth.”
“Natural disappointment.”
“No one cares for him.”
“The rewards look slight.”
“Miserable beginnings.”
“Act as a permanent reproach.”
“A slothful, barren place with no art, science or material comforts.”
“The tormenting question.”
“Pretentious rehash.”
“Turned being broke into a competitive sport.”
“Glacial garrets.”
“Damp breeding groups of E Coli and gonorrhoea.”
“A pretty unspectacular place.”
“Appalling, hellish, pitiful misery.”
“Nameless fatigue and sated horror.”
“That bloke came at me with a brick. I took it off him and hit him with it.”
“An intimacy and engagement.”
“Transpose tenderness with horror.”
“Incensed by the inactivity.”
“I’m very lucky as to be able to change what I have on the walls according to my shirt colours.”
“It is an abyss.”
“Surrounded by her own owls.”
“Famous and fated.”
“Spent much of the past 8 ½ years in his bedroom.”
“Slow, dirty, grinding one.”
“The transition from feudalism to the modern state took three centuries.”
“Highlight a moment.”
“Drunk whiskey all the way through.”
“N0x.”
“My 1970s haircut.”
“Well-intentioned and harmless.”
“Put a one-bedroom flat in the front of its jets for those too posh to slum it in first class.”
“Fetch goat’s milk for a guest’s bath.”
“Located zebra milk.”
“As long as its legal and moral.”
“Fantasise about the day they’ll be asked to bake a birthday cake from scratch for a gluten-intolerant guest at 40,000 ft.”
“Does one look in Sir’s toiletry case? Only if one has requested Sir’s permission to do so.”
“Apply 10 second fold.”
“Stack, than wrap.”
“Oddly impossible.”
“Give minimalism a bad name.”
“Blowtorch oysters by the front door.”
“Nu-perm.”
“Oiled and exposed in a desperate bid to sell lycra.”
“A tasselled crevice full of anorexic snobs.”
“Look like a condom filled with dogmeat.”
“Home counties sass.”
“Obsequiously deferential.”
“Falling out of nightclubs.”
“Damnable backstory.”
“Notoriously disruptive.”
“Painfully intimidating.”
“Least sentimental accounts.”
“Excuse his own behaviour morally.”
“Disproportionate pleasure.”
“Controlled anger.”
“Emotionally stifling.”
“Leering, overweight, greasy, geezer.”
“Extraordinarily difficult to offer a compliment.”
“The drunken homeless woman clutching a bottle of meths at the exit to the underpass. “You dirty bastard! I’m calling the police,” she bellowed as I passed.”
“Boldly and without prison.”
“Unlie.”
“Ritualised space.”
“The status quo can’t hold.”
“Dog foul.”
“Companionable silence.”
“Women going off to the Cotswolds to have a nervous breakdown over a man.”
“Sweet stories about sweet people, sweetly told.”
“Slavering relish.”
“All those phallic cacti.”
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On ‘Hollyoaks’: Ziggy tells Leela he wishes she was dead and is then mistaken for a gay prostitute. Leela messes up. Tegan smugs. Ste lies and he and Harry are caught in a toilet stall. The Ste/Harry plot is nonsensical. My interest is non existent in the errant manchild Ste.
On ‘Neighbours’: Brad fawns over Lauren as they plot against Terese. A schoolboy yobbo injuries Amber’s unborn child.