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[chrryblssmninja]

Roundup for the first three months of 2014:
I wrote reviews of Boardwalk Empire season 4, Dhalgren, Navidad & Matanza, and True Detective season 1.

The top two movies I watched happened to be from India: The Lunchbox (Dabba) (2013) and Pyaasa (1957).

As for books, my favorites were Bernardo Axtaga's Obabakoak and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names. Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries was pretty exciting to read for the first 700 pages, like a more clear-eyed version of Victorian multi-character melodrama, but after that the fated-luck-astrology themes were a bit much, even if the book was structured around them. The story's  good overall, though, so if the TV miniseries version actually gets made, I might give it a try. The opening six-story run in John Ajvide Lundqvist's Let the Old Dreams Die is great; after that the quality goes up and down until the solid novella sort-of-sequel to Let the Right One In. I also started reading the brilliant Moomin comic strips, and appreciated Joseph McElroy's experimental A Smuggler's Bible as a whole..


1) Aqua Teen Hunger Force - 4.2 - “Boost Mobile” - Cartoon Network
2) Sherlock - 3.1 - “The Empty Hearse” - stream
3) Elementary - 2.12 - “The Diabolical Kind” - CBS
4) Sherlock - 3.2 - “The Sign of Three” - stream
5) Elementary - 2.13 - “All in the Family” - CBS
6) Sherlock - 3.3 - “His Last Vow” - stream
7) True Detective - 1.1 - “The Long Bright Dark” - stream
Not sure how I feel about these credits - gorgeous but all the butts
Lol different de-aging materials. They have similar profiles tho
Whut is this Hannibal
Did his wife leave him? I’m not surprised
Woody Harrelson’s character is bemused and so not amused at the same time
“I don’t sleep. I just dream.”
Aha Michelle Monaghan’s chara wants to ask him about her husband’s job I see
8) Adventure Time -5.44 - “Apple Wedding” - Cartoon Network
9) Samurai Flamenco - 1.2 - “My Umbrella is Missing” - Hulu
10) Samurai Flamenco - 1.3 - “Flamenco vs. Fake Flamenco” - Hulu
11) Adventure Time - 5.45 - “Blades of Grass” - Cartoon Network
12) Powerpuff Girls (new) - “Dance Pantsed” - Cartoon Network
13) Adventure Time - 5.46 - “Rattleballs” - stream
14) Elementary - 2.14 - “Dead Clade Walking” - CBS
15) True Detective - 1.2 - “Seeing Things” - stream
16) True Detective - 1.3 - “The Locked Room” - stream
17) I kveld med Ylvis - 1.14 - dl
18) Samurai Flamenco - 1.4 - “Idol Devastation” - Hulu
19) Inside No. 9 - 1.1 - “Sardines” - dl
20) Elementary - 2.15 - “Corpse de Ballet” - CBS
Pretty good episode. Joan had a storyline of her own and also had more backstory.
21) True Detective - 1.4 - “Who Goes There” - stream
22) I kveld med Ylvis - 1.15 - dl
23) Adventure Time - 5.47 - “The Red Throne” - OnDemand
24) Inside No. 9 - 1.2 - “A Quiet Night In” - dl
25) True Detective - 1.5 - “The Secret Fate of All Things” - stream
They are so not telling the truth
26) Inside No. 9 - “Tom and Gerri” - stream
27) I kveld med Ylvis - 3.16 - “Doomsday Special” - dl
28) True Detective -1.6 - “Haunted Houses” - stream
29) American Experience - “The Rise and Fall of Penn Station” - OnDemand
30) Adventure Time - 5.47 - “Betty” - Cartoon Network
31) Inside No. 9 - 1.4 - “Last Gasp” - stream
32) Brooklyn 99 - 1.4 - OnDemand
33) Elementary - 2.16 - “The One Percent Solution” - CBS
34) Samurai Flamenco - 1.5 - “The Meaning of Justice” - Hulu
35) Hannibal - 2.1 - “Kaiseki” - NBC
35) Samurai Flamenco - 1.6 - “Capture Samumenco!” - Hulu
“No need to fear office supplies!”
36) True Detective - 1.7 - “After You’ve Gone” - stream
37) Adventure Time - 5.48 - “Bad Timing” - Cartoon Network
38) Samurai Flamenco - 1.7 - “Change the World” - Hulu
oh wow that was a great episode until the entire show jumped the shark in the last five minutes
39) Inside No. 9 - 1.5 - “The Understudy” - dl
40 - 42) Brooklyn 99 - 1.5-7 - OnDemand
43) Kollektivet - 6.1 - sumo.tv2.no
44) Brooklyn 99 - 1.8 - OnDemand
45-6) Broad City - 1.1-2 - OnDemand
47) Elementary - 2.17 - “Ears to You” - CBS
48) Kollektivet - 6.1 - sumo.tv2.no
49 - 51) Broad City - 1.3-5 - OnDemand
51) Brooklyn 99 - 1.9 - “Sal’s Pizza” - OnDemand
52) Hannibal - 2.2 - “Sakizuki” - NBC
53-4) Broad City - 1.6-7 - OnDemand
55-7) Brooklyn 99 - 1.10-12 - OnDemand
58) True Detective - 1.8 - “Form and Void” - stream
SPOILERS FOR TRUE DETECTIVE FINALE
While I’m more ok with a positive ending and showing the tail end of corruption (the stereotypes were odd, but that accent scene)
http://io9.com/what-the-hell-kind-of-ending-was-that-true-detective-1540629251
“We also never truly find out how many members of the Tuttle/Childress clan are involved in the child sacrifice rituals. When Rust frets about this in the hospital after he and Marty have caught and killed Errol, Marty basically tells him to shut up. Of course the evil men in power weren't caught, he says to Rust. ‘That ain't what kind of world it is,’ he continues. ‘But we got ours.’”
Tuttle escaped. Though Errol Childress himself was also abused, probably chosen due to his size and outsider status to become the latest incarnation of the Yellow King or some sort of priest who violates the sacrifices. The network probably started to disband in 1995, but he continued to abduct people
Cohle wonders what would have happened if he had recognized the man on the lawnmower
END OF SPOILERS FOR TRUE DETECTIVE FINALE
59-60) Lemonhope Pt. 1 and 2 - 5.49-50 - Cartoon Network
61-65) Brooklyn 99 - 1.13-18 - OnDemand
66) Brooklyn 99 - 1.19 - “Tactical Village” - Fox.com
67) Brooklyn 99 - 1.20 - ‘Fancy Brugdom” - FOX
68) Inside No. 9 - 1.6 - “The Harrowing” - stream
69) Broad City - 1.8 - “Destination: Wedding” - Comedy Central
70) Elementary - 2.18 - “The Hound of the Cancer Cells” - CBS
Pretty good
71) Kollektivet - 6.3 - sumo.tv2.no
72) Hannibal - 2.3 - ‘Hassun” - NBC
73) Adventure Time - “Billy’s Bucket List” - Cartoon Network
74) Brooklyn 99 - 1.21 - “Unsolvable” - FOX
75) Broad City - 1.9 - “Apartment Hunters” - Comedy Central
76) I kveld med Ylvis - 1.16 - dl
77) Kollektivet - 6.4 - sumo.tv2.no
78) Hannibal - 2.4 - “Takiawase” - NBC
79) Brooklyn 99 -1.22 - “Charges and Specs” - FOX
80) Broad City - 1.10 - “The Last Supper” - stream
81) Kollektivet - 6.5 - sumo.tv2.no
82) Hannibal - 2.5 - “Mukozuke” - NBC
83) I kveld med Ylvis - 1.17 - dl

Comments

[whomp.livejournal.com]

WAT THERE IS A NEW PPG

WHY DON'T I HAVE CABLE TO KNOW THESE THINGS

samurai flamenco looks interesting

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

There was a one-time special. Many people didn't like it, for the different art style and other aspects, but I thought it was ok if not perfect. Craig McCracken wasn't involved.

Samurai Flamenco was interesting, but then there's a plot change at the end of episode 7 that comes out of nowhere and I didn't want to go past it.

[whomp.livejournal.com]

ps - finally finished true detective

meh overall

(only good ep was the fight between rusty and marty)

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

I thought it was ok but overhyped. My favorite episode was episode 5 but the worst episode to me was episode 6.

[whomp.livejournal.com]

aww that was my favorite one actually. what didn't you like about it?

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

just how they made the former child prostitute just come on to Marty like that. Yeah it called back to Rust's "down payment" line but I think the same basic plot things could have happened while still writing her as a character and not just a plot device. Also I really like Maggie and I understand her going to Rust but how it panned out... the whole infidelity plot was tiring to me even when I saw hints of it in the first episode.

did you see this new Bruce Timm Batman short (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IFwOS2R9o_8)? I think it's ok but it does follow the spirit of the '30's story that inspired it

[whomp.livejournal.com]

for me, i just appreciated the conflict between rusty and marty. it felt like they were just around each other before. sure marty couldn't stand rusty at times but i felt no real attraction or repulsion or chemistry between them. the fight finally brought out some passion between them, in a nonshippy way.

i liked the style of the batman short. looks like bruce timm took that overly sharp look he's had for a while starting with the later b:tas series and the superman series and dialed it back down to the softer look the earlier b:tas series had.

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

That's true. Bros for life.
I liked the memes that came out of the show too, like this:
http://truedetectiveconversations.tumblr.com/


Yeah it has a great look. I wonder if this was a one-time thing for Batman's anniversary. I heard he did a short for Superman too but I'd have to look it up.

[malinowy.livejournal.com]

I really need to read We Need New Names but I'm not sure if the library has more than one copy. Hopefully. And I should try Let The Old Dreams die again. Or maybe I'll just read the Let The Right One In sequel and be done.

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

We Need New Names ends at an unusual point, but I thought it felt truer to the immigrant situation than similar books.

Yeah, if you're not into some of the stories in Let the Old Dreams Die, you won't miss much by skipping them.