I enjoy watching Rome more for it’s opulence and style than anything. Yes, it’s a good refresher course on the days of Julius Caesar and Pompey, of Antony and Cleopatra, and interesting power plays, bloody fights and sexual games, but more than anything I like to see the make-up rituals, wigs, lewd drawings, strange pagan-seeming sacrifices within the church, etc. Read More
When high school chemistry teacher Walter White learns he has inoperable lung cancer, he decides to provide for his family long after his imminent departure the only way he can think of: Cooking methamphetamine and selling it at an enormous profit. He gets a lot more than he bargained for. This show is more addictive to watch than any other. The way it’s filmed is genius, the acting more than believable and the character development is uncanny. No detail is ever left unaccounted for. Read More
I can’t help it. In the face of an upcoming season of shows that retread long standing sci-fi ratings hits like Heroes, The X-Files and even Firefly, there’s few things with consistency that I want to lock onto. That is, of course, but for the most consistent man in television, the Doctor. Read More
Louis is a show based on comedian Louis CK’s stand-up. Recently an acquaintance told me that he can’t deal with stand-up comedy in New York because it is brutally realistic and dark as well as openly racist and homophobic. I had no idea what he is talking about, because going to see stand-up comedy seems really depressing and I never do it. Read More
Are you familiar with Jason “Jace” Hall?. He’s a monster. A weird mixture of nerd, steroid freak, Hollywood executive and rapper. Read More
TVP Kultura is the first TV theme channel to be run by the Polish public broadcaster TVP. The channel was launched a few years ago and is entirely dedicated to art and culture. Read More
Whilst in the UK, I recently saw the first in a 3 part show, Sherlock, produced by the BBC. It is a contemporary update of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson. Set in London and Cardiff with two pretty good writers behind the project, the show has promise. Read More
In the summer months, when it turns far too hot for exercising outside, I am forced into the gym to run on the treadmill. So how do I pass the monotonous minutes without feeling like a gerbil in a cage? Easy. Foodie TV, of course! Read More
OK well so far this season True Blood sucks as much as the vampires in the show. What happened? Read More
I’ve always had a thing for nature shows, but Isabella Rossellini’s kooky low budget skits on animal sex might be my favorite. The first Green Porno series ran on the Sundance Channel ages ago. The construction paper costumes were perfectly paired with her eager, strange, and accurate demonstrations. The series stuck with me. Actually, I’m a little obsessed with it. I’ve even bought her Green Porno book. The whole thing is one part Michel Gondry and one part Radiolab. I mean, she has this ability to make worm sex sound awesome.
Police Women Of Broward County is like a blend between my favourite ever TV show Cops and modern reality TV. It’s great. Read More
The entire television run of Twin Peaks is included in Paramount’s Definitive Gold Box Edition. Hidden in a eye fucking gold box, the set’s ten discs are individually layered in plastic trays. Read More
Tim Roth as Doctor Lightman, scrutinizing YOUR face for signs of lying. In the series Lie To Me, which I’ve been obsessively watching through Netflix, the Lightman Group works on solving murders, mysteries, and crimes through study and detection of lying through body language and facial ticks, expressions, and involuntary movement while asking personal questions, videotaping reactions and studying everyone VERY closely. I like the premise of this show a lot. Read More
My unholy fixation with animated series continues. I’m obviously watching the new season of Futurama but that’s not news (the episode with the eyephone was great!). Anyway, I’ve just started watching Neighbors from Hell, a satirical American animated sitcom. Read More
I love the MTV Movie Awards. I am not a tween, I have not seen Twilight, I do not wear Uggs or Extreme Couture and I do not own a Miley Cyrus record. But I do believe that the MTV Movie Awards are the greatest awards show on the face of the earth. Read More