time for my yearly blog entry
Does this thing still work?
Excited that Party Down got picked up for a new season. It's the funniest thing going right now.
Excited that Party Down got picked up for a new season. It's the funniest thing going right now.
Posted by stacie | Wednesday, May 13, 2009
4 comments
It works just fine and it's still just as pleasing to the eye. I have no idea what Party Down is — it sounds dreadful — but I'm pleased to see that your opinions are back online. On numerous occasions I was able to stumble through conversations at the market or in waiting rooms using nothing but your reviews. It was so much easier than explaining the unexplainable — that I don't watch TV. I subscribe to your RSS feed, by the way, so I was notified when you posted. I also hear little tidbits about you from you know who every so often. I was thinking that if you made semi-annual posts, and then quarterly posts, before long you'd be writing every time something good (or something really bad) came along. I look forward to it. And that's not an elaborate lie.
Where is your face book account, Stacie? Start one up and tag me as a friend!
helen harrington
ps how are you doing?
Party Down is next up on my To Watch list. I may have to give it a while yet, though, because I bet anything I watch in the wake of Breaking Bad's second season will suffer in comparison. The first season of BB is excellent stuff, but it doesn't even come remotely close to the brilliance of the second season.
I also think I prefer it to The Wire, as premature as that opinion is. While The Wire is undoubtedly more ambitious and enlightening, BB creates even stronger characters and puts them through the wringer in truly unpredictable, perversely insightful ways. It is as transcendent, and often even more so, than the likes of even Deadwood, certain seasons of The Sopranos, and The Wire. If that doesn't sell you, its creator and head writer is one of the main people behind The X-Files.
Mom has it right now, and apparently hasn't gotten past a certain button-pushing incident in the second or third episode of the first season. Ironically, when I had rented the first disc of Breaking Bad, that particular scene was so good it made me take the disc out of the player, return it to the video store, and run immediately to Best Buy to buy it.
Seriously, these days all I've been doing is spreading the gospel of Breaking Bad. It was dangerously close to getting a shoehorned reference in my best man speech last week (I'm sadly only half-kidding on that, since Dennis would have probably appreciated it).
Also, to reiterate, Up is phenomenal and only improves on repeat viewings. Another surprise: Drag Me to Hell, despite being a PG-13 horror movie, is absolutely fantastic. It demands to be seen in a packed theater with people whooping and hollering at all the crazy shit that goes down. What's in the water this week? All this year, I've been bitching about the lack of quality TV and movies, and suddenly this week, everything is kicking ass.
See you on Facebook Helen!
Joe - I now have the first disc of Breaking Bad. Can't wait to start it. Right after I finally finish The Wire. I'm almost done, Snoop and Omar just got got. I love Party Down - it's great. All my favorite Veronica Mars people. And Adam Scott is a cutie, so there's that. Skins is very good too. The BBC can do no wrong.
Up was incredible. The Hangover cracked me up big time. I think the Dan Band at the end was my favorite part. I liked the taser sequence too.
BB reference in a best man speech? :)
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