I think we’re approaching the 8 year anniversary of the first time I used the phrase “I’m superhero movie’d-out”. Its around the 6 year anniversary of the first time I used the phrase “I’m apocalypsed-out”.

I’m reminded of US networks’ coverage of the Olympics. Every athlete interview they have to wring out a pathetic sob story about a sick mother or dead pet or something. Its ratings gold if they can get them to cry on-camera. Its so over-the-top that pathos turns into bathos.

Funny how every aging Hollywood actor seems to have been either a serial rapist, a male prostitute or a drug dealer in his past life.

Is there anything approaching a ‘narrative arc’ to this series or is it just a perpetual groundhog day of zombie headshot porn and humans brutalizing other humans?

There’s a pleasant Taiwanese series currently being aired named ‘The Ex Man’. The pilot involves the ex-high school boyfriend of a 30 year old woman appearing to her as a ghost after the ex drowns*, and just as she’s about to marry someone else. It’s only up to episode 8 so we’ll have to see which one she decides to…

Steel-core bullets are steel, though. DoD pushed for elimination of lead core bullets a good five years ago with work on the project going back to 1995.

There’s a news story just today that *Russian foreign Service disinformation sites* are reactivating and spreading this very message. ‘Democratic incivility’ is a fabricate talking point being pushed by the same folks who pushed ‘Obama born in Kenya’ and ‘Clinton Muslim Brotherhood spy’, along with three dozen other…

This weekend I’m at a loss. I finished the book I was reading, all of my favorite (Korean) TV shows have wrapped up.

You’re WAAAAAAY overthinking this.

The CW is famous for having decent shows with crappy names. Did anyone besides me watch ‘No Tomorrow’? It was better than you imagine. I’ve lost track of the number of well-meaning feminists who refused to watch ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ based solely on the title. The Vulture website recently crowned ‘Jane the Virgin’ the…

I located the trailer with subtitles.

I’ve got another ‘Best Of’ Korean series for you to look at. Its named ‘Misty’ (the English word). A super-stylish mystery drama about a middle-aged TV news anchor fighting to keep her job and fend off a growing scandal. The lead performance of then-46 year old Kin Nam-joon is just mesmerizing. Her return to TV after…

Is there anything more anathema to the original Star Trek Utopian humanist worldview than this amoral sadist film maker? I got over Tarantino’s shtick a long time ago.

The Good Place has the fault, though, of being overloaded with *exposition*. Instead of the actors showing us how a character feels they stand frame-center and TELL us, sometimes at length. Its a good concept that cleverly written but it doesn’t use all the tools at its disposal. An example of a series that…

Continuing my lobbying for this series. Here’s a brief clip (without subtitles) to show just how intense the series could get.

Go outside the (American) box to find the *best TV* so far of 2018.

Whenever I see a Blackhawk copter and fancy weapons in a film my first thought is “the Department of Defense is in-part funding and supporting this project”. And what sort of film would the DOD finance in the Trump era? A lurid fever dream about murderous Mexicans assaulting the Texas border of course! What a piece of…

I’m again reminded of ‘Sherlock’, which threw increasingly convoluted BS at us each episode, apparently for the sole purpose of generating post-mortem recap theorizing. When the viewers finally caught on that we were being played for fools, that the assembled puzzle picture was just nonsense, we became angry.

“...crafting his characters primarily as symbols. At least they think of themselves that way”. That’s the uneasy feeling I get from this. The series seems to be branding itself as a genre of right wing fantasy porn. Middle-aged guys with guns wearing cowboy hats.

The problem with sticking your nose up somebody’s butt is they’re liable to shit on you.