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Yo Gabba Gabba. Dani loves the bright colours and all the singing and dancing, especially when I sing and dance along with the show for her.
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I'm glad "Justified" started up again. Not the best thing in the world, but better than most.
Speaking of cops in hats, I've been catching up with "Prime Suspect" in Demand and I like it a lot - it's too bad people were so turned off by Maria Bello's ladyballs. (I don't know what it is, but it seems they promoted it all wrong - who knows?)
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Watched "A Serious Man" last night. Still thinking about it, mulling over the "difficult" ending. Not sure if the movie was successful or not, but there were some great individual scenes.
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Somebody at work recommended the cartoon Archer: a parody of Sixties spy epics. I could only get clips (no cable or satellite), but it does look pretty amusing.
Also caught what I think is the last episode of Bob's Burgers. It reminds me of why I never followed my Mom into the restaurant biz.
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I just finished watching the first episode of the new NBC show "Smash." It does have every making-of-a-musical cliche, but this kind of story has been neglected in TV and movies for so long, that it feels fresh, or at the very least like an old friend one hasn't seen for a while. And I thought it was well-written and well-cast -- my favorite is Katherine McPhee as the small-town girl with dreams of stardom.
I empathized with both actresses up for the role, and had to dab a tear for both of them last night. Also touched by the final scene at the adoption meeting and Anjelica's joy at not losing her director.
I love everything about SMASH, but I did spend some time in the theatre world in the 90s so that's not a big surprise to me.
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I'm waiting until the weekend to watch the next episode of "Smash" so I can savor it and so I won't be tired from staying up late. After reading Lash's review, I'm even more excited about it.
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Just watched episodes 3 and 4 of SMASH... yeah, there's a lot of "cliche" kinda stuff going on here... jealousies, diva-ness, cheating, etc. and I am *LOVING* every minute of it. Let's face it, this is what happens in theatre.
Much more realistic to me than GLEE ever could hope to be.
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The last couple episodes of "Game of Thrones" just to review. April 1st can't get here too soon.
Also "Young Justice" and "Green Lantern" with my boy. They're basically fulfilling my superhero fix these days.
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I highly recommend Archer--fall off the couch hilarious! The humor is abbrasive that it's engrossing.
Drake, I also like Justified quite a bit. We've always kind of liked the same shows.
For example, I've been rewatching all 7 seasons of the Shield, which is the best cop show ever IMO, and one of the best TV shows ever. Just finished the finale of season 5 this past weekend--whew, I forgot how tough the show is on it's viewers. I've got my wife totally hooked, and shes been a trooper handling the rough subject matter. The show amazingly contains what I consider the greatest performances ever by both Glen Close and Forrest Whitaker.
Also, a show I think is really funny is New Girl.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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I just watched a British film that I really enjoyed, called, "Exam".
The premise is this:
There are eight final candidates competing for an extremely prestigious position within a corporation.
Having reached the final selection stage, they are brought into an exam room with a single piece of paper sitting on their desk and are told they have 80 minutes to answer a single question to determine who gets the job.
They are given a block of instruction containing a few key points which will result in their disqualification, namely - They may not spoil their paper in any way, they may not leave the room for any reason, and they may not attempt to communicate with the armed guard at the door.
The timer begins, they flip their papers over... and they are completely blank.
Thus begins a nice 80 minute suspenseful puzzler of a film that completely held my interest throughout. It is basically a character study piece of the candidates themselves, where each minute escalates the tension between this group, and the lengths that each will go to ensure that they are the only one to answer correctly.
I did find the ending a little less than what I had hoped, but the journey there was quite engaging.
Recommended.
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