The ending of last night's episode really twisted a knife in my heart.
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Feb. 3rd, 2021 08:19 pmFifteen minutes into Coroner tonight, and already the waterworks almost started twice.
Shocked that they managed to keep Nicholas Campbell in the cast for at least this episode.
Surreal and funereal.
More as it goes...
Shocked that they managed to keep Nicholas Campbell in the cast for at least this episode.
Surreal and funereal.
More as it goes...
Yeah, so that last five minutes broke me.
TV: Batwoman, Recast?
May. 19th, 2020 07:28 pmYes, I just saw the reports on Variety and THR, and some discussion on TrekBBS.
Perhaps this isn't the surprise that I first thought.
Between the spinal injuries on the set, the allergic reactions to costume-related make-up, the similar and more permanent injury of a production assistant on location, the constant abuse from toxic "fans" that she's certainly been dealing with, whether the abuse is because she's "out" or because her character is...and then, there's the simple fact of the "60-80 hour work weeks 9 months a year in the Vancouver rain" before any of the rest of that gets factored in.
Whatever the reasons for her choice, I hope Ruby Rose has a good life, that she lives long and prospers with peace of mind and heart through it all. Thank you for your performances. You brought joy and wonder, danger and excitement, and a set of ideals behind it all. Thank you for taking this chance.
To whoever's next up to wear that cape and wig and ride those motorcycles: whoever you are, I look forward to seeing you do your best with the people around you on both sides of the camera. I hope you find your own joy and wonder in this work in progress, and that it will keep you around for the long term. And I thank you for taking this chance.
Perhaps this isn't the surprise that I first thought.
Between the spinal injuries on the set, the allergic reactions to costume-related make-up, the similar and more permanent injury of a production assistant on location, the constant abuse from toxic "fans" that she's certainly been dealing with, whether the abuse is because she's "out" or because her character is...and then, there's the simple fact of the "60-80 hour work weeks 9 months a year in the Vancouver rain" before any of the rest of that gets factored in.
Whatever the reasons for her choice, I hope Ruby Rose has a good life, that she lives long and prospers with peace of mind and heart through it all. Thank you for your performances. You brought joy and wonder, danger and excitement, and a set of ideals behind it all. Thank you for taking this chance.
To whoever's next up to wear that cape and wig and ride those motorcycles: whoever you are, I look forward to seeing you do your best with the people around you on both sides of the camera. I hope you find your own joy and wonder in this work in progress, and that it will keep you around for the long term. And I thank you for taking this chance.
Go have a peek if you've already watched "The Flipside" on Monday:
https://www.thetvjunkies.com/coroner-seneca-aaron-talk-the-flipside/
https://www.thetvjunkies.com/coroner-seneca-aaron-talk-the-flipside/
TV: Coroner: "One Drum" Linkage (Spoilers)
Feb. 4th, 2020 03:23 pmThere's an interview with the writer and director of this week's episode that might be worth some time and attention. There are spoilers for Seasons 1 and 2 of Coroner, so be warned of that.
https://www.thetvjunkies.com/coroner-shannon-masters-charles-officer-talk-one-drum/
https://www.thetvjunkies.com/coroner-shannon-masters-charles-officer-talk-one-drum/
CANCON/TV: Coroner Season 2
Jan. 10th, 2020 01:25 pmWhich just started this week on CBC. It's as much a soap opera as crime/mystery and horror show, and that last is in my thinking a very quiet, subtle and slow-building horror when it shows up. Never mind the fake burnt corpse built for a post-arson investigation, it's what shows up in people's behaviour. Including the protagonist, Jenny Cooper MD as portrayed by Serinda Swan...and Marvel's loss is definitely CBC's gain here with Swan's work on this show.
https://www.tv-eh.com/2020/01/10/coroner-serinda-swan-on-jennys-season-2-journey-and-the-joys-of-creative-freedom/
https://www.tv-eh.com/2020/01/10/coroner-serinda-swan-on-jennys-season-2-journey-and-the-joys-of-creative-freedom/
Street Legal: the Disappointment
Apr. 7th, 2019 02:37 pmI've got the whole six episodes of the new run on the household PVR awaiting viewing. I've seen and enjoyed the first episode. Planning to watch the rest ASAP. And yesterday, CBC announced that they won't be going any further with it.
I am disappointed.
I am disappointed.
CanConTV: Street Legal
Mar. 17th, 2019 10:09 pmI finally watched the first episode of the new Street Legal series. Looks okay. I admit to not being very clear on the mythology of the original series, but it looks like a good beginning to a new chapter. Six episodes to start.
Let's see how it goes.
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sabotabby, fair warning if you decide to watch: I don't think you are going to like Olivia Novak as a character very much.
Let's see how it goes.
sabotabby, fair warning if you decide to watch: I don't think you are going to like Olivia Novak as a character very much.
MOVIES: The Death of Stalin
Mar. 24th, 2018 10:57 pmJust got home from seeing The Death of Stalin. The Bytowne was packed, audience-wise. The film was a weirdly effective mix of comedy, drama and documentary.
The line that made me laugh? Khrushchev commenting that "now we can turn the corner".
Sad, angry laughter.
Oh, and I find out at the end that this is adapted from a French graphic novel!
The line that made me laugh? Khrushchev commenting that "now we can turn the corner".
Sad, angry laughter.
Oh, and I find out at the end that this is adapted from a French graphic novel!
So I'm finding myself reading this retrospective/interview with Hugo Weaving on his career to date. Some comic book movie-watchers pay attention to a particular item re: The First Avenger.
Much respect to Mr. Weaving, and the Skull's first apparant MCU demise did seem ambiguously staged by design.
But maybe it's all the comebacks and "last stands" his character's comics counterpart has made over the decades since being revived in the 1960's, particularly the one in the latter group staged by J.M. deMatteis, Paul Neary and company in the 1980's. Frankly, I am feeling increasingly cheated by every revival of the Skull in the comics. The latest "How would the Skull take the "what would you do about Hitler if you could time-travel to his childhood" question and turn it on its head?" plotline now running in Steve Rogers: Captain America...even more disturbing in its way.
Anyway. I think I'd prefer to leave Weaving's performance in The First Avenger stand as its own thing.
Just a thought.
Much respect to Mr. Weaving, and the Skull's first apparant MCU demise did seem ambiguously staged by design.
But maybe it's all the comebacks and "last stands" his character's comics counterpart has made over the decades since being revived in the 1960's, particularly the one in the latter group staged by J.M. deMatteis, Paul Neary and company in the 1980's. Frankly, I am feeling increasingly cheated by every revival of the Skull in the comics. The latest "How would the Skull take the "what would you do about Hitler if you could time-travel to his childhood" question and turn it on its head?" plotline now running in Steve Rogers: Captain America...even more disturbing in its way.
Anyway. I think I'd prefer to leave Weaving's performance in The First Avenger stand as its own thing.
Just a thought.
A Top 25 for Canadian TV
Nov. 14th, 2010 02:23 pmThanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tartysuz for pointing this item out to me!
A new list confirming/reaffirming some long-held suspicions about homegrown TV shows just got announced recently.
Lest our TV network bosses try to avoid remembering this...yet again.
tartysuz for pointing this item out to me!A new list confirming/reaffirming some long-held suspicions about homegrown TV shows just got announced recently.
Lest our TV network bosses try to avoid remembering this...yet again.
RIP: Stephen J. Cannell
Oct. 2nd, 2010 09:43 amBy way of short-hand explanation:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2010/10/01/obit-cannell-stephen-tv.html
This guy built a large chunk of my TV fun in younger days.black13 wrote what I consider a very good obituary for him. I recommend that you go read it here.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2010/10/01/obit-cannell-stephen-tv.html
This guy built a large chunk of my TV fun in younger days.
black13 wrote what I consider a very good obituary for him. I recommend that you go read it here.
I watched the second half of The Trojan Horse tonight. Heck of a number Gross pulled off, I think. Not sure that there's much room for a sequel unless Paul Gross and Martha Burns think that Mrs. Burns can carry a mini-series on her own.
And as of tonight, I'm curious to find out.
And as of tonight, I'm curious to find out.
I hope that Chris Haddock is wrong...
Dec. 4th, 2007 07:20 am...about at least one of his theories because I'm a fan of his TV series Intelligence. It's a damn good crime/espionage drama, and the first season's about to go retail on DVD. If you're fans of Queen & Country for example, I think it's a TV show worth your time.
I want to see it get a third, fourth, and fifth season. At minimum.
You will want to judge his latest comments for yourselves, though...and considering that the second half of next week's installments is entitled "We Were Here, Now We Disappear"...I'm more than a little worried.
I want to see it get a third, fourth, and fifth season. At minimum.
You will want to judge his latest comments for yourselves, though...and considering that the second half of next week's installments is entitled "We Were Here, Now We Disappear"...I'm more than a little worried.
I just read the latest off of CBC Web News re: the Canadian Television Fund(CTF):
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2007/01/25/ctf-funding-response.html
As a Canadian citizen and a regular viewer of Canadian drama content on TV, I want you to cease and desist in this behaviour. You have responsibilities to the rest of us in this country as part of your licenses, and I expect you to honour them.
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canadiantv)
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2007/01/25/ctf-funding-response.html
As a Canadian citizen and a regular viewer of Canadian drama content on TV, I want you to cease and desist in this behaviour. You have responsibilities to the rest of us in this country as part of your licenses, and I expect you to honour them.
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canadiantv)
What I Like on TV - October 2006
Oct. 18th, 2006 05:18 pmHere's a partial list of series I'm currently watching regularly:
- Intelligence - CBC
- Rick Mercer Report - CBC
- Battlestar Galactica - Space Channel
- Doctor Who - CBC
- Hockey Night in Canada - CBC
- Law & Order - CTV/NBC
Prairie Giants and Suchlike
Mar. 14th, 2006 09:42 pmIf you ever get a chance to see Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story, do it. It's four hours of your life that'll be well spent.
I spent the last two nights watching this thing, a story of a man who was -- is -- venerated by many across Canada in general, and my birth province of Saskatchewan in particular, for a great many thoughts and deeds, medicare chief but nowhere near alone among them. It suffers from the usual problems of docudramas that try to cover decades in as short a span as two to four hours. But it gets the broad strokes, and does it well enough to suit me.
The last half-hour did not leave me with a dry eye, I'll admit that right off. The story of a man who didn't have to become Prime Minister to win his battles.
Update: I've learned from Antonia Zerbisias' blog at the Toronto Star that the first installment got 950,000 viewers, with 750,000 coming back the next night for part 2. Not bad at all.
I spent the last two nights watching this thing, a story of a man who was -- is -- venerated by many across Canada in general, and my birth province of Saskatchewan in particular, for a great many thoughts and deeds, medicare chief but nowhere near alone among them. It suffers from the usual problems of docudramas that try to cover decades in as short a span as two to four hours. But it gets the broad strokes, and does it well enough to suit me.
The last half-hour did not leave me with a dry eye, I'll admit that right off. The story of a man who didn't have to become Prime Minister to win his battles.
Update: I've learned from Antonia Zerbisias' blog at the Toronto Star that the first installment got 950,000 viewers, with 750,000 coming back the next night for part 2. Not bad at all.
