Television
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I was vaguely aware of the existence of the series of murdery mysteries featuring this Swedish detective, but have never read one. The local PBS network has begun showing the BBC productions based on them, and I watched the first one a couple of nights ago. I say "first" but it's actually the first episode
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Last July 4 when the SyFy Channel was having its Twilight Zone marathon, I recorded a number of episodes, so many that I still haven't watched them all. And now it's almost July 4 again. I don't think I'll record any this year, though I do enjoy most of them. Last night we watched one called
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Probably the best thing I've read about The Wire. And also very astute on the condition of our society. Thanks for the link, Grumpy.
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In one of the first episodes I saw, O'Brien looked in the mirror and said to herself This is not who you are. That struck me as very much out of place for the time, ca. 1914. It's definitely a contemporary American thing, and I suppose a British one, too. I kept noticing things like
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Upstairs Downstairs 2 and Downton Abbey This is sort of a follow-up to that post a few weeks about Upstairs Downstairs. I don't think I mentioned in that one that the reason we were watching the original series was that we had seen the new one which first aired last year. I'd noticed the ads for it
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Sunday Night Journal — December 4, 2011 Perhaps you’ve noticed that for some time now I haven’t said much on the subject of movies. Part of the explanation for that is that watching movies is something my wife and I tend to do together, and she’s now in graduate school and has far less free
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The main reason I haven’t been interested in watching Mad Men is that I was pretty certain it would be impossible for the entertainment industry to produce a tv show set in the late ’50s-early ’60s without including a lot of self-congratulatory stuff about how much more enlightened we are than those pigs. I find it
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Sunday Night Journal — February 8, 2004 The biggest and most ludicrous news story of the past week has been the brief exposure of a pop singer’s breast during a half-time concert at the Super Bowl. I myself did not witness the great event, although I watched most of the game. As probably happened in
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Sunday Night Journal — January 11, 2004 I’ve been watching the eight or ten episodes of The Twilight Zone which I taped from the SciFi channel’s marathon in the days leading up to New Year’s Day. Based on these, it seems to me that this show was surely one of the high-water marks of television,
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