‘Arrow’ 4x03 promo
He throws playing cards? WTF?
‘Z: Nation’ season 2 promo
WTF?
‘Brooklyn’ TV spot
No.
‘Fargo’ season 2 promo
No.
‘Liar, Liar, Vampire’ promo
I hate to admit it, but I am intrigued.
I will review ‘The Lazarus Effect’ and ‘In A Handful Of Dust’.
‘Natural World - Prairie Dogs: Talk Of The Town’ was okay.
No’ Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ sequel? Boo!
‘The Musketeers’ series 3 sounds iffy.
Caleb Temple from ‘American Gothic’ is all grown up on ‘NCIS: New Orleans’.
I want to see ‘The Witch’ in 2016.
I won’t review ‘Once Upon A Time’ 4x20 ‘Lily’ or 4x21 ‘Mother’.
I never liked White Musk perfume.
Extra fine milk chocolate with hazelnuts - okay.
Reese’s Sticks - okay.
Dear houseguests: you went out for a fancy dinner and conspicuously didn’t invite me. I will remember that insult - oh yes I will. Stop trying to change how we do things in our home. Also staying up till dawn drinking is rude.
‘The Irish Times’ Quotes:
“Contradictions and complexities.”
“They like to light bonfires in the middle of the night.”
“A negative mood out there.”
“Creating a truth on stage, where the actor inhabits the character, and the character inhabits the actor.”
“Cockish bridge-walking is the first test.”
“Disgustingly ambitious.”
“Calculated reasonableness.”
“Coolly efficient.”
“Totalitarian reflections.”
“Impressively savage.”
“Tyranny of coupledom.”
“Inconvenient fact.”
“Preventative detention.”
“Pastiche of pettiness.”
‘Irish Daily Mail’ Quotes:
“Moved home 50 times in the past decade.”
“Staying up drinking until four in the morning and fighting.”
“Completely estranged from him.”
“I’d memorably just punched Harold Pinter’s lights out.”
“He could smell a booze-up at a thousand paces.”
“This next bit’s good. Bit heavy going don’t you think.”
“They’d just slap it down on a table - if they could find one that hadn’t been smashed.”
“He gleefully told me he had spent the night in the cells after a wild pub fight.”
“Trying to stop all the buses, while covered from head to toe in his own sick.”
“Wine dregs smell.”
“The smell of a mouldy Afghan coat dumped in a damp flat.”
“I have never seen a more untalented human being.”
“Breaking glasses, pouring wine over the table.”
“I am ashamed of you as an artist.”
“You’re either off your face, angry or violent.”
“Realised I was being sworn at.”
“Taxi drivers and tourists stared.”
“He never did, nor I him.”
“Looking as though he’d been dragged through a hedge backwards.”
“Clutch their misery to their chests.”
“He has no compassion for me.”
“Resist societal pressures to work.”
“Make him feel cared for.”
“I feel cherished.”
‘FTWeekend’ Quotes:
“Absolutely unharrowing.”
“Theatre images.”
“Normality personified.”
“Gazing from a brothel window in his underpants.”
“Enhance interactivity.”
“Two mutually uncomprehending worlds.”
“Gazes at her sensitively.”
“Deluded young men.”
“Abyssal eyes.”
“Helpless blankness.”
“Strangely understated.”
“Hates funding unproductive adults.”
“A moral duty.”
“He was litigious and endlessly combative.”
“Morality in the media.”
“Questionable morals.”
“The lifestyle and values of the young people I saw there weren’t close to mine. It was sick hedonism: consumerism, entertainment. Everything was very vulgar.”
‘Daughter Of The Blood’ Quotes:
“They were the ones she wasn’t safe from.”
“They, the ones who should have kept her safe, were her enemies.”
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On ‘Hollyoaks’: Mercedes has no morals. Jason informs on Robbie. Suspended John-Paul has nearly had his life ruined, again. Nancy and Ste don’t care. Harry lies and threatens Ste and Ste still wants him, he must be reminded of Brendan Brady. Mercedes wears a bandage dress. John-Paul has terrible judgment. Mercedes is orange. Ste won’t man up. Ste took John-Paul’s name and finally recalls he is married. Joe is still paralysed. Mercedes goes from the McQueen house to the Roscoe house in one scene. Sienna flattens Ashley after she kidnaps Sienna and Nico. Ste is a jackass. Ben is rabid. Lindsey takes off her tacky pink ring. Jason and Robbie fight.
It’s pride day. Ste and Harry gurn at each other. Hypnotoad tries to run off with Joe’s pregnant galpal. He is inherently awful. Grace plots against Trevor again. Joe is upset. What about Scott poisoning Diane? Where is Tegan? Ste has no morals. People wear skimpy fancy dress in October. Trevor menaces Robbie. Nancy is a horrible person. Grace is awful. Robbie attacks Jason again. Hypnotoad tells Robbie to come to Spain with him and the latest of Joe’s galpals that he stole. Grace runs off with Curtis. Trevor gets a gun. Hypnotoad never apologises. Ashley wakes up and is promptly killed by the Gloved Hand Killer. Someone wears a shark hat. People wear Tony masks. Poor John-Paul reveals Ste and Harry’s hook-up to the world.
Best Lines:
“I don’t do long term.”
“We’ll go to prison!”
“You nicked his fiancée!”
“She’s got petrol!”
“They call me the slapper of the family?”
“I’m having our mistake!”
“It’s lying in 2B.”
“Coma. I did that.”
“You, pretending to be a doctor.”
“Dr Fraud.”
“Wanted to start playing with my GI Joe’s for all the wrong reasons.”
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Cleared out a tape from 2001. It began with a ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ ep ‘The Ring’ in which Xena and Gabrielle go looking for something. There are more Wagner mangling flashbacks to Xena as a valkyrie and their tinfoil armour. There is bad acting and a tree monster lumbers. There are a lot of overreactions, amnesia and someone becomes a living flame. Then came a ‘Nash Bridges’ ep ‘The Messenger’ in which Cassidy is a cop and this lacks stagecraft.
Then came an ‘Andromeda’ ep 'The Honey Offering' in which Dylan tries to broker a peace. This looks low budget. Tyr wears a string vest. People are confrontational and egotistical. This was not hugely significant and is a rip-off of a ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ ep.
Best Lines:
“Why is he alive?”
“A do-nothing.”
“Allowing yourself to be betrayed proves your inferiority.”
Then came a ‘Charmed’ ep ‘Sleuthing With The Enemy’ in which Phoebe is blonde and coated in bronzer. Cole’s true nature is revealed. It is un-stateable how boring this is.
Best Line:
“You really shouldn’t be here.”