HBO Year Ender 2011
For someone without HBO, I’ve really enjoyed most of this year’s programmes and am looking forward to 2012, especially The News Room, so this advert was right up my street.
(Source: thecelebritycafe.com)
Talking Funny
Louis CK, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld and Ricky Gervais
First Ever Watch of Supernatural: Live-Blogged
I’ve never seen Supernatual before, but Murray ‘Ozone’ Owens insisted I started. He told me to watch latest episode (S06E15) first. So my only knowledge of narrative and character is coming from the “Previously On..” bit.
Below I will leave my observations for Ozone.
- Okay so it’s like Buffy.
- Why is Gordon Ramsay in it?
- Okay so it’s like True Blood.
- This is quite an aggressive start, I don’t know what the hell’s going on but a lot of people are getting stabbed.
- Okay so it’s Saturday night in Glasgow.
- Weather is really loud in Supernatural.
- Just realised that any time Ozone talked about Supernatural, I thought he was talking about Charmed.
- Wait. This isn’t real. No idea what’s going on.
- Holy shit, Noah Vanderhoff is in some amazing old man make up. No wait, he’s just old as shit.
- Ah right so this is a meta- episode. Fourth wall being broken. This could easily be bad. Does this sort of craziness happen all the time on this show?
- This is sortof reminding me of last week’s The Office episode: writers being over-indulgent, but in a good way.
- People are stealing stuff from Heaven in this show?
- Okay so it’s like Dogma?
- Twitter joke. Wonder if the usernames are real IRL. Not gonna check.
- Zoolander reference. But in a way which means that they watch Zoolander in their scary Supernatural world.
- Ok yeah the DOOL bit is kinda funny.
- I wonder if the two actors weren’t talking IRL. Not gonna check.
- Ruby actress is kinda like a smoking Lea Michelle.
- I don’t like alpaca jokes. Everyone thinks they are hip after Napoleon Dynamite but I’m not buying it.
- How were those two main guys overpowered by a few guys from the tv crew? Are they ot meant to be pretty tough?
- Tssss burn. Insider network jokes! Don’t get it. But, still.
- Okay I jumped at the back seat bit, was expecting it as he was spelling it out, but still jumped.
- I wonder what this show is like when they’re not doing this.
- I wonder if the two main guys sound as gruff and Batman-y in REAL real life.
- This show might look nice in HD. I’m thinking about getting a Blu Ray player. JUST SAYING.
- This show is nothing like Charmed.
- Are they acting kind of corny because it is a special episode?
- The complete first season of Supernatural is £8 on Amazon. Tempting. Should get through more Alias first.. Or should I?
- Remember when Gary Shandling played Mulder in a similar meta-fourth-wall episode of X-Files. That was kinda good.
- Did this episode just come back to where it started? Cos if it did, that’s a good way to postpone a big episode, like a season finale. Especially if you showed it right before the finale. Make a night of it. A television event. There should be more television events. Simul-cast it round the globe.
- And wee joke and END CREDITS.
- No idea what’s going on, really.
Yeah I might start watching this.
Texas Forever: Friday Night Lights Articles and Essays
Friday Night Lights ended over a week ago and I keep meaning to post some links to the main articles I have run in to.
TVGuide: Friday Night Lights Comes to An End: Producers and Cast Remember Building Dillon
TVGuide: Friday Night Lights Comes to an End: The Cast on Series-Saving Fans, Graduation, Panther Hate
BlackBook: As ‘Friday Night Lights’ Comes to a Close, What Will Its Cast Do Next?
USA Today: Andrew M.’s lessons from ‘Friday Night Lights’
Chris Littmam: Reflecting on five years of ‘Friday Night Lights’
Hitfix: ‘Friday Night Lights’: A look back at its greatness and its greatest moments
The paraphernalia that I have left over? I think I’ve maybe got two blue hats and four or five red and black ones. Also, here’s something I’ll say, finally: I never liked that Panther blue. At all. When we got red, I thought, “Well, the red is cool, but on camera, it’s too much. Why can’t we just have black?” I started scheming, trying to find a way to get the Lions to use black shirts instead. Finally, we did. Now you tell me: Did it not look great?
— Kyle Chandler on ditching the Panthers blue entirely (via kylechandler)
(Source: tvguide.com, via fridaynightlights)
FRANGRY: Liveblogging My First Time Watching Glee
- Is this coach person supposed to be a woman?
- Lea Michelle is fucking god damn disgusting.
- Is it possible that the blonde chick from 40 Year Old Virgin is the only saving grace of this show?
- Wait, the people in the show are also in the commercials? I thought I would get a break from this…
(Source: frangry)
The Politics of FNL
The underlying theme [of Friday Night Lights] is, we need each other. Everyone, even a teenager, is part of a web of dependence. You could see the show, from the right, as an example of how the best social programs are a job, a family and self-discipline; you could see it, from the left, as an argument for the crucial importance of an underfunded government institution, the public school. You would be right both ways. (via Time)
It’s funny: as a lefty, I always consider FNL to be a righty show.
