Let’s talk tv.

[MichelleHW101]

I watched the Taking of Pelham 123 and have to say that while James Gandolfini wasn’t bad in the role of the mayor of new york, I still perfer him the Sopranos. 

[MichelleHW101]

I am wondering if they are going to release Animal Rescue.  It’s in post-production now but it is the last movie James Gandolfini worked on (or will work on depending on your point of view.)  I’m going to assume they will to try and cash in on it being the last project Gandolfini worked on.  I don’t know how much they will cash in because sometimes it works (as in Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight) and sometimes it doesn’t (like Whitney Houston in Sparkle.)

[MichelleHW101]

Can’t picture the Incredible Burt Wonderstone making a lot of money now that it’s on dvd (not that it made a considerable amount in the movie house) dispite the fact that James Gandolfini as a role in it.  Gandolfini plays Doug Munny, a billionaire owner of the Bally’s Casino where Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) perform.  Gandolfini went to Las Vegas to reserch his role and spoke to magicians Criss Angel and Nathan Burton.  He also spoke with The Mirage casino president Felix Rapaport and Kenny Epstein.  What he wanted was to prepear for his role by getting insight in the enteranment world and the world of magic.  I have to personally say he got it and nails the role.  (He’s actually the best thing about the movie.)

[MichelleHW101]

I miss the 80’s shows.  Back then there was a lightheartedness to television.  Even the most ‘intense’ dramas weren’t so intense that they were relaxing.  One could come home from a stressed day and flip on the tv.  Now it’s thank God for cable because even the comedies that are on tv are so serious that if one comes home stressed they get even more stressed watching tv.   

[MichelleHW101]

I was watching Arrow and finally in episode 22 it hit me why Paul Blackthorne (playing Detective Quentin Lance) looked so familiar.  Apart from playing Dr. Matt Slingerland in Presidio Med back in 2002-2003, I watched every episode of the Dresden Files from 2007-2008.  I loved that show and am sooo kicking myself for not recognizing him sooner.

[MichelleHW101]

I hope the Arrow works out because Paul Blackthorne doesn’t seem to have any luck with tv shows.  From Peak Practice (as Liam McGregor), Holby City (as Guy Morton), Presidio Med (as Dr. Matt Slingerland), The Dresden Files (as Harry Dresden), Lipstick Jungle (as Shane Healy) The Gates (as Christian Harper), the River (as Clark Quietly) etc. he racks up only one or two seasons at max.  Here’s hoping Arrow can make it at least three.

[MichelleHW101]

I have to say I didn’t see Fox’s The Following going more than one season given the plot so I guess they had to end it the way they did (introduce mysterious woman Molly who stabs Kevin Bacon’s Ryan Hardy, her former lover, claiming that Joe Carroll promised her Hardy’s death by her hand alone) so that it could go to season two.  I don’t know if I’ll continue to watch it though because it was really  James Purefoy as Joe Carroll that made me watch it.  They said it was a confirmed dental records match and that he is dead.  (Unless they through some weird twist into season two and Joe’s occult followers rigged the records to make everyone think he was dead.)

[timvolley]

I agree that it should be rated r I started watching it but missed a few shows so I gave up on it.

[MichelleHW101]

I’ve been watching Arrow since it’s first episode and I hope by the end of the season it comes full circle in that they explain what the list McQueen/Arrow/Hood follows has to do with the island and that mercinary group that was there.

[MichelleHW101]

I watched 666 Park Avenue since the beginning and I even was upset they were cancelled and waited for this summer for the last episodes to air.  What is my reward?  It turns out Gavin is actually Jane’s father and Jane becomes ‘evil’ leaving the granddaughter, another child of the drake, alone pinning up newspaper clippings in that small cubby-hole room.  There’s only one episode left and I really am pissed that evil so far has won at every turn.  I can’t stand occult movies for that reason.  Why?  Why does evil always have to win?  With what they did to the next to the last episode, I have lost hope of Jane taking down The Drake and all the evil with it.   

[sdecaro558]

Some of what's allowed on TV these days surprises me.  The rules are becoming more and more lax.

[MichelleHW101]

I finished watching the pilot to Charlie Jade and while I had to finish the episode I didn’t want to watch any more.  I was disappointed and understand why it only ran one season back in 2005.

[MichelleHW101]

I am really enjoying Quick Draw on Hulu and watched every episode however I get disappointed that some of them are left unfinished.  Like the pilot ends with him getting shot and he’s bleeding on the coroner’s table being told he will probably die but the next episode he’s walking around like it never happened.  Or the third episode Mail Order Bride where Sheriff Hoyle’s deputy Eli finds his bride gruesomely killed and thinks the Indians did it so contaminates a blanket with small pox then gets himself infected.  The episode ends with the town totally infected with small pox, Eli giving Hoyle the small pox and Eli and Hoyle running from the family that likes to chop up people then sew the body part onto different people (like Frankenstein only not bringing them back to life).  The very next episode is an entirely different story line.  I wish they didn't do that.  If they want to end in a cliffhanger then the next episode should be the conclusion.     

[MichelleHW101]

I’ve watched The Awesomes since it first aired on Hulu and while it is an adult cartoon (given the sex references and bad language from time to time) I find it not only entertaining but one of the smartest cartoons out their currently. 

[MichelleHW101]

I hope it doesn’t turn out on The Mentalist that Bret Stiles, the leader of the Visualize cult and played wonderfully by Malcolm McDowell isn’t Red John.  I mean everything points to him being Red John but the fact that everything does should mean he’s not because it’s almost never (except in the case of a bad script writer) the most obvious suspect.