Television
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If you haven't seen either or both of these, you've no doubt heard of them. They attracted a lot of attention because they represent something new in the TV world, shows produced by a company that made its name by renting DVDs to millions of people. Apparently they decided that producing their own "content," as
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There are probably going to be a number of these brief reviews of mostly old movies over the next month or so. We are about to cancel our "cable" TV service (actually over the phone lines–AT&T's TV+Internet service). It's crazy for us to keep it, since we almost never watch anything but PBS, TCM, and
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So I finally watched the series that has been creating such a stir for several years now. It's very good. It's extremely good, in fact, in every technical sense: well-written, well-plotted, well-acted, well-photographed. And it's extremely gripping. I know at least three people who have watched a few of the roughly 60 one-hour episodes and
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Probably. If you like the series at all, you should see this one. It's one of the better ones. It's called "Intellligent Design," and one of the characters is an advocate of that theory. Nothing much is made of that in the story, so it seems an odd thing to throw in, but the phrase
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I just watched the first of a new Inspector Lewis series on PBS. Lewis, as you may know, was Chief Inspector Morse's sergeant in the old series based on the Colin Dexter novels. That much-loved series having ended some years ago, and John Thaw, the actor who played Morse, having died, the milieu has been recreated
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Smartphones, of course, are not the only crazy-making technology we have to contend with. One day last week I ate lunch at a sports bar of which one whole two-story wall was filled with TV screens, two huge and eight very large. That's a total of ten video screens, which were playing a total of
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I expect most people who read this blog and would be interested in this BBC TV show have already seen it. But in case you haven't: it's really good. I had seen a few very favorable references to it here and there, but it really didn't sound like my cup of tea. Then a few
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As you may know, the University of Alabama (Roll Tide!) won the national championship in football last night (Roll Tide!!). And you may have heard that one of the announcers for the game, Brent Musburger (who is by no means young), raised eyebrows with some remarks about Bama quarterback A.J. McCarron's girlfriend. If you've ever
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Bah. Psycho Christian death cult. Obviously I'm prejudiced, but I didn't think it was a very good story even apart from the annoying specifics. The episode is called "Before the Frost," and is based on a novel of the same name. Aside from compliments to the actors and photographers, I really have only one good
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I watched the second episode of season 3, The Dogs of Riga, a couple of nights ago. I think I liked the first one a little better. This one shared the atmosphere of the other, but is more gruesome and has more action and suspense–several people are tortured and murdered in a rather horrible way,
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