Okay, I always say you have to give a show at least 2 episodes if not 3 to make sure if you like it or not...usually....some are amazing off the bat and some suck but I try to give them all a chance.
HBO's new show camping is annoyingly funny. I am sitting here watching on my computer because the hubs is watching...something. Anyways, I was silently snorting to myself so much he was like "are you okay...? *raised eyebrow*" Turned the screen to show him what I was watching just as a very naked Julia Louis-Dreyfus turned around in all her naked glory.
He was like "She has a landing strip" as I laughed because only I could hear what was happening.
The show is fun. I think (I hope) as it goes on it will compound on the silliness. We all know these people. These are city folks on a weekend camping trip. But its not a bunch of 20 somethings going skinny dipping and shotgunning beers... its all older married (or divorced) couples with kids trying to have fun.
You have your dorky husband/dad, controlling wife/mom, the sister with the reformed (?) deadbeat (?) husband and their angsty teen, the brother and his wife who CLEARLY have issues with controlling lady, and the recently separated friend with his new hippy girlfriend.
I want to love it because I love Jennifer Garner and David Tennant. Seriously, the 1st episode was a hoot. I giggled quite a bit. Hopefully it just gets funnier...and we talk more about her pelvic floor while the others are just annoyed and drink and totally go off schedule because AHAHAHAHA I have a friend like that...I love her but chill chickadee!
Anyways, funny show...reminds me of camping with my boujee friends. There are ALWAYS stories to tell after.
Oh and there's a bear.
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Sunday, October 14, 2018
Monday, April 2, 2018
Just kiss already!!!!!!!
What I seem to be screaming every new episode of Timeless. Wyatt and Lucy are so f**king adorable and I need them to just be...something!
I love this show sooooooooo much. I am so glad it can back for Season 2. I have ZERO faith in NBC doing the right thing and keeping this show. Because they are so f**king stupid when it comes to good shows, with good plots, and a good fanbase. They are like "this show seems to be internet popular...LET'S KILL IT!" F**king @$$holes.
SPOILERS for Episode 3:
And OMG I am watching Season 2 Episode 3 and f**king FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am legit dying over here. Eeeeeeeeee!
They basically just professed their undying love. You saved me...you saved me...when I thought you were dead...I....
Then they are in a room..and....and...are they going to be interrupted...?!?!!? Ahhhhh they are kissing. like good kissing. Like oh...oh this may be more than kissing and I can't deal right now. Yaaaaaaaaassss!!!!!
Okay I am done now. I am smiling like an idiot over two fictional characters FINALLY admitting they are @$$ over tit in love and its amazing. Alright, I'm going finish Episode 3 and squee a little more!
UPDATE: OMG Rufus' reaction! I love love love love it!
UPDATE 2: F**K you writers!!! You can't give me Lyatt or Wucy (I don't know what we call them) and then f**king bring her back. You can't bring the LOVE OF HIS LIFE back! How...why...goddammit!!!! I'm so angry right now!
I love this show sooooooooo much. I am so glad it can back for Season 2. I have ZERO faith in NBC doing the right thing and keeping this show. Because they are so f**king stupid when it comes to good shows, with good plots, and a good fanbase. They are like "this show seems to be internet popular...LET'S KILL IT!" F**king @$$holes.
SPOILERS for Episode 3:
And OMG I am watching Season 2 Episode 3 and f**king FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am legit dying over here. Eeeeeeeeee!
They basically just professed their undying love. You saved me...you saved me...when I thought you were dead...I....
Then they are in a room..and....and...are they going to be interrupted...?!?!!? Ahhhhh they are kissing. like good kissing. Like oh...oh this may be more than kissing and I can't deal right now. Yaaaaaaaaassss!!!!!
Okay I am done now. I am smiling like an idiot over two fictional characters FINALLY admitting they are @$$ over tit in love and its amazing. Alright, I'm going finish Episode 3 and squee a little more!
UPDATE: OMG Rufus' reaction! I love love love love it!
UPDATE 2: F**K you writers!!! You can't give me Lyatt or Wucy (I don't know what we call them) and then f**king bring her back. You can't bring the LOVE OF HIS LIFE back! How...why...goddammit!!!! I'm so angry right now!
Friday, March 16, 2018
What do they feed them in Sweden?!?!
So I got a Netflix "98% match" show. I've seen some adverts for it but didn't know much about it so I started watching it.
Very crazy bloody opening, hmmm interesting. Then the guy who dies is brought back in a new "sleeve". If you don't know what I'm watching, its called "Altered Carbon" and its kind of crazy!
In the way way way way future we have apparently expanded into the stars AND figured out how to be basically immortal. K.... At the ripe age of 1 every person is implanted with a disc that can pretty much be reinstalled into new bodies (sleeves) indefinitely. Well unless the disc is damaged.
Anyways, the bad@$$ ripped Asian that dies in the first few minutes is resleeved into this 6' something blonde Adonis looking mother f**ker. He is butt@$$ nekkid and has the "v". The "V"!!! I was like God Damn, who is this guy?!?!?! Then he walked away and sweet baby Jes...nice @$$!
So I looked him up and apparently he was most recently Robocop in the reboot of Robocop. Have I mentioned he is dead sexy?!?! Joel Kinnaman, is a Swedish actor and was born in 1979. What the hell do they feed them??? Between him and the freaking Skarsgård family we all look like a bunch of wet trash.
Maybe not that bad but you get the idea. Anyways, this show is fascinating! And the lead is not bad to look at. Well he has some weird looks sometimes...kinda goofy but his body helps.
I mean that's not why I'll watch it but its definitely lagniappe.
Side Note - I've seen more dicks flapping around in 1 hour than I can ever recall...
Very crazy bloody opening, hmmm interesting. Then the guy who dies is brought back in a new "sleeve". If you don't know what I'm watching, its called "Altered Carbon" and its kind of crazy!
In the way way way way future we have apparently expanded into the stars AND figured out how to be basically immortal. K.... At the ripe age of 1 every person is implanted with a disc that can pretty much be reinstalled into new bodies (sleeves) indefinitely. Well unless the disc is damaged.
Anyways, the bad@$$ ripped Asian that dies in the first few minutes is resleeved into this 6' something blonde Adonis looking mother f**ker. He is butt@$$ nekkid and has the "v". The "V"!!! I was like God Damn, who is this guy?!?!?! Then he walked away and sweet baby Jes...nice @$$!
So I looked him up and apparently he was most recently Robocop in the reboot of Robocop. Have I mentioned he is dead sexy?!?! Joel Kinnaman, is a Swedish actor and was born in 1979. What the hell do they feed them??? Between him and the freaking Skarsgård family we all look like a bunch of wet trash.
Maybe not that bad but you get the idea. Anyways, this show is fascinating! And the lead is not bad to look at. Well he has some weird looks sometimes...kinda goofy but his body helps.
Side Note - I've seen more dicks flapping around in 1 hour than I can ever recall...
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Dear Mr. M - Herman Koch
What the hell did I just read?!?! Okay sorry in a more elegant tone "my word, this telling tale has successfully frizzled my cerebellum".
What an interesting story. I was frustrated for a bit but only because I couldn't figure out why I needed to have so many points of view. We originally hear from the "weird" upstairs neighbor, then Mr. M the writer, then his wife, then young Herman, then young Laura....then the freaking history teacher. So much going on but how does it all fit. Logically it fits because Mr. M writes a book based on an actual occurrence. Forty years ago a teacher (Landzaat) has an affair with a student (Laura), can't handle when she breaks up with him and then he goes missing. Of course the student and her new boyfriend (Herman) are prime suspects. So we learn early on (this isn't a spoiler) that weird guy is the boyfriend. So all narrators, except M's wife, are parts of this original story and M is the writer. I guess you could call it a different way to do character development.
So we know how the book M writes ends and the narration from the past is what actually happened. Its all jumbled together though. We go from present day 70+ year old M, his wife, and his stalkery neighbor...back 40 years to Herman, Laura, their friends, and the elicit affair. It sounds like it should be confusing but it isn't. M is written to be a jerk. You don't want to like him. He is a pompous has been writer who still thinks he is relevant. His wife (much younger) and daughter are there for show. He probably cares but they are more of a security blanket for an aging man. Weird guy/Herman is disturbing. You keep waiting for him to do something really crazy. Clearly someone who could kill his old teacher, lie about it, and get away with it wouldn't blink at harming the writer who retold the story. Laura is a young girl. She is gorgeous. She can have any boy she wants. She is a good person who made some bad decisions.
All in all it was a great story. Towards the end it is hard to put down (read my random ramblings). You start trying to piece it together. You think you know and then BAM you were totally wrong. I can honestly say I did not see that coming. I thought I had it figured out. Nope, not even close. The mystery stays a mystery until the very end. Not your typical who done it. Give it a try, I don't think you will be disappointed.
SPOILERS
I really honestly thought Herman killed Landzaat. The whole book builds him up to be some loner only child who gets his kicks by being a jerk. He is detached from reality. Every time older Herman was narrating I thought for sure M's wife, child, or M himself was going to be harmed in some way. He is not made to be likeable. Clearly he manipulated Laura into loving him and made sure the competition was removed. I mean what normal kid films a teacher laying dead on the floor. He is grilling M about the details in his book. Why he said this, why he left out a particular person, why didn't he want to interview Laura and Herman. He is unstable. He is detached. He is dangerous. And he is pushing himself into M's life.
Laura liked Herman right off the bat. Something about him but she didn't want to admit it. So she lost him to her friend while on a group vacation. The group stays friends and she in a fit of rebellion seduced her history teacher. Him being of unsound mind falls for it and they begin their affair. She is his side piece...he is married with two kids. She doesn't want to be his side piece so she does something stupid. She leaves an earring at his place for his wife to find...then she breaks up with him to date Herman.
Landzaat had an affair with a student. He is not a good person. The problem isn't just the affair. Its the aftermath of the break up. He can't handle the fact that she left him, a man, for some gangly boy her own age. A boy who isn't a jock, who isn't overly attractive, who isn't him. He becomes obsessed. He stalks her. He shows up when she is on Christmas break with Herman. He plans it all out. He will show up there and win her back. Then it changes, he will show up there and fake a car issue causing them to leave in the snow storm to find help. He will kill himself making it look like the kids did it so he can ruin their lives. What is wrong with him!?!?!
Mr. M was also not likeable but not in the "he's a murderer" type of way. More like he is just an jerk. He is an old man who no longer holds his tongue. He says things that are awful. It is implied that he is racist...I think. He gets into a fight with another writer and gets his butt kicked. His life is falling apart. He figures out in his concussed state that weird guy is Herman but before the big reveal from Herman, M slips away into a vegetative state. Oh no we will never know and Herman just watches as the wife tries to help.
Landzaat is back, wait what? He changed his mind he didn't want to die. He faked it all. He decided to run off just as Herman said. He faked amnesia and will show up again in a few months. He finds out about the book and contacts M. He thinks the writer should know the real story. But M already has his story, the kids killed the teacher. He doesn't want to change it. In a fit of career preservation M kills the teacher. What?!?! The end.
What an interesting story. I was frustrated for a bit but only because I couldn't figure out why I needed to have so many points of view. We originally hear from the "weird" upstairs neighbor, then Mr. M the writer, then his wife, then young Herman, then young Laura....then the freaking history teacher. So much going on but how does it all fit. Logically it fits because Mr. M writes a book based on an actual occurrence. Forty years ago a teacher (Landzaat) has an affair with a student (Laura), can't handle when she breaks up with him and then he goes missing. Of course the student and her new boyfriend (Herman) are prime suspects. So we learn early on (this isn't a spoiler) that weird guy is the boyfriend. So all narrators, except M's wife, are parts of this original story and M is the writer. I guess you could call it a different way to do character development.
So we know how the book M writes ends and the narration from the past is what actually happened. Its all jumbled together though. We go from present day 70+ year old M, his wife, and his stalkery neighbor...back 40 years to Herman, Laura, their friends, and the elicit affair. It sounds like it should be confusing but it isn't. M is written to be a jerk. You don't want to like him. He is a pompous has been writer who still thinks he is relevant. His wife (much younger) and daughter are there for show. He probably cares but they are more of a security blanket for an aging man. Weird guy/Herman is disturbing. You keep waiting for him to do something really crazy. Clearly someone who could kill his old teacher, lie about it, and get away with it wouldn't blink at harming the writer who retold the story. Laura is a young girl. She is gorgeous. She can have any boy she wants. She is a good person who made some bad decisions.
All in all it was a great story. Towards the end it is hard to put down (read my random ramblings). You start trying to piece it together. You think you know and then BAM you were totally wrong. I can honestly say I did not see that coming. I thought I had it figured out. Nope, not even close. The mystery stays a mystery until the very end. Not your typical who done it. Give it a try, I don't think you will be disappointed.
SPOILERS
I really honestly thought Herman killed Landzaat. The whole book builds him up to be some loner only child who gets his kicks by being a jerk. He is detached from reality. Every time older Herman was narrating I thought for sure M's wife, child, or M himself was going to be harmed in some way. He is not made to be likeable. Clearly he manipulated Laura into loving him and made sure the competition was removed. I mean what normal kid films a teacher laying dead on the floor. He is grilling M about the details in his book. Why he said this, why he left out a particular person, why didn't he want to interview Laura and Herman. He is unstable. He is detached. He is dangerous. And he is pushing himself into M's life.
Laura liked Herman right off the bat. Something about him but she didn't want to admit it. So she lost him to her friend while on a group vacation. The group stays friends and she in a fit of rebellion seduced her history teacher. Him being of unsound mind falls for it and they begin their affair. She is his side piece...he is married with two kids. She doesn't want to be his side piece so she does something stupid. She leaves an earring at his place for his wife to find...then she breaks up with him to date Herman.
Landzaat had an affair with a student. He is not a good person. The problem isn't just the affair. Its the aftermath of the break up. He can't handle the fact that she left him, a man, for some gangly boy her own age. A boy who isn't a jock, who isn't overly attractive, who isn't him. He becomes obsessed. He stalks her. He shows up when she is on Christmas break with Herman. He plans it all out. He will show up there and win her back. Then it changes, he will show up there and fake a car issue causing them to leave in the snow storm to find help. He will kill himself making it look like the kids did it so he can ruin their lives. What is wrong with him!?!?!
Mr. M was also not likeable but not in the "he's a murderer" type of way. More like he is just an jerk. He is an old man who no longer holds his tongue. He says things that are awful. It is implied that he is racist...I think. He gets into a fight with another writer and gets his butt kicked. His life is falling apart. He figures out in his concussed state that weird guy is Herman but before the big reveal from Herman, M slips away into a vegetative state. Oh no we will never know and Herman just watches as the wife tries to help.
Landzaat is back, wait what? He changed his mind he didn't want to die. He faked it all. He decided to run off just as Herman said. He faked amnesia and will show up again in a few months. He finds out about the book and contacts M. He thinks the writer should know the real story. But M already has his story, the kids killed the teacher. He doesn't want to change it. In a fit of career preservation M kills the teacher. What?!?! The end.
I got this book for free from Blogging for Books to read and give my honest review.
| page 94 | 23.0% | "Can I just say...the men in this book are awful! Mr M and the neighbor need a swift kick in the groin...." | ||
| 01/25 | page 325 | 81.0% | "I thought this book was about revenge but I'm really not sure. Its all over the place...different points of view. The stories interconnect but I am still not sure what the point is. Its interesting but very odd." | |
| 01/25 | page 334 | 83.0% | "Good lord man she is 16...pull yourself together...she can't be that great in bed....talk about voodoo punani." | |
| 01/25 | page 342 | 85.0% | "So is this like a repeat thing. He stole the younger girl from the older man in HS and will now steal the younger wife from the old dude as an adult....seriously...what is the point of this book....." | |
| 01/25 | page 347 | 86.0% | "So now M knows who he is.........?" | |
| 01/25 | page 362 | 90.0% | "If it turns out the M has been love sick dude this whole time I will throw the book and my coworkers will think I am insane." | |
| 01/25 | page 363 | 90.0% | "What the e actual...this book is so weird!!!!!" | |
| 01/26 | page 396 | 99.0% | "This book is messing with my brain!!!!!" | |
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Is anyone watching Incorporated?
So I was really excited about this show when I first saw the previews. Its a show about a dystopian future where the government collapses and Corporations take over. It had some familiar faces in it from other SyFy shows and sounded intriguing.
With that said I am totally hooked. The first few episodes were a little slow but they have to explain WTF is happening. After that its almost addictive. I say this because the subject came up over the holidays and some family were like "it sucks" and "I am so disappointed". At that point I think 4 Episodes had aired but they had only watched the Pilot and Ep 2. My thing is you always give new shows a few episodes to ramp up. I usually say 4 or 5 because in the first couple they are trying to catch you up to what is going on. Plus how can you connect with characters after 1 or 2 episodes...you don't know them yet. That's why I hate it when shows are canceled after 1 or 2 episodes, or even 5. The network didn't even give it a chance.
Anyways, I binge watched three episodes last night because with the holidays I didn't get to watch them. They were over in a blink. I need more!
Seriously though. There is so much going on in the present but the last two episodes gave us a glimpse into the past. Why Ben is doing what he is doing and why Laura is so scared to go outside the wall. Why Julian is the way he is. The premise of the show is about privileged vs poor but it goes so much deeper than that. How can you decide who should be saved from the suffering?
It really is sobering. You have people living this lavish life. Its the future we all dream of where wealth is prevalent, technology has advanced, and health is priority. But then just a mile or so away, on the other side of a wall people can barely survive. They are on rations which are barely enough to sustain them. They have horrible healthcare (or no healthcare). They police are corrupt. There is basically no way out of the slums (refugee camps). You can't move into the rich people world without becoming a sex slave because you were born on the wrong side of the wall. Unless you are Ben...then you can con your way in.
Its an awful future. But Ben gives us hope. Then you realize its because he wants to save his love from being a corporate call girl. So it isn't to save humanity, its for his own personal gain but maybe...just maybe some snowball effect may occur. Something needs to change! Unfortunately the only thing changing is Ben. He is on thin ice. He is making mistakes. And he is willing to kill to keep his secret (and family) safe. Its sometimes hard to watch.
Personally, I think its a great show. I hope it survives because I think it has lots of potential. SyFy shows are my weakness....
**SPOILERS**
Ben clearly cares for Laura (his corp wife) but he is obsessed with Elena. I know she is his love and he wants to save her but at what cost? Laura isn't a bad corp person. She was just born into it. She actually wants to help those on the outside. She has a good heart. I bet if he told her it wouldn't be bad. I kind of want them to make it. I don't really know much about Elena but I think Laura deserves a chance. Her mom on the other hand, I am not sure about her. She has ulterior motives for everything. Now Julian scared me the first few episodes but after the last episode, I really like him. He is just doing his job. He didn't want to be the corp interrogator...the heartless bad guy. I say good riddance to Caplan...he was awful...that actor seems to always play the bad guy.
With that said I am totally hooked. The first few episodes were a little slow but they have to explain WTF is happening. After that its almost addictive. I say this because the subject came up over the holidays and some family were like "it sucks" and "I am so disappointed". At that point I think 4 Episodes had aired but they had only watched the Pilot and Ep 2. My thing is you always give new shows a few episodes to ramp up. I usually say 4 or 5 because in the first couple they are trying to catch you up to what is going on. Plus how can you connect with characters after 1 or 2 episodes...you don't know them yet. That's why I hate it when shows are canceled after 1 or 2 episodes, or even 5. The network didn't even give it a chance.
Anyways, I binge watched three episodes last night because with the holidays I didn't get to watch them. They were over in a blink. I need more!
Seriously though. There is so much going on in the present but the last two episodes gave us a glimpse into the past. Why Ben is doing what he is doing and why Laura is so scared to go outside the wall. Why Julian is the way he is. The premise of the show is about privileged vs poor but it goes so much deeper than that. How can you decide who should be saved from the suffering?
It really is sobering. You have people living this lavish life. Its the future we all dream of where wealth is prevalent, technology has advanced, and health is priority. But then just a mile or so away, on the other side of a wall people can barely survive. They are on rations which are barely enough to sustain them. They have horrible healthcare (or no healthcare). They police are corrupt. There is basically no way out of the slums (refugee camps). You can't move into the rich people world without becoming a sex slave because you were born on the wrong side of the wall. Unless you are Ben...then you can con your way in.
Its an awful future. But Ben gives us hope. Then you realize its because he wants to save his love from being a corporate call girl. So it isn't to save humanity, its for his own personal gain but maybe...just maybe some snowball effect may occur. Something needs to change! Unfortunately the only thing changing is Ben. He is on thin ice. He is making mistakes. And he is willing to kill to keep his secret (and family) safe. Its sometimes hard to watch.
Personally, I think its a great show. I hope it survives because I think it has lots of potential. SyFy shows are my weakness....
**SPOILERS**
Ben clearly cares for Laura (his corp wife) but he is obsessed with Elena. I know she is his love and he wants to save her but at what cost? Laura isn't a bad corp person. She was just born into it. She actually wants to help those on the outside. She has a good heart. I bet if he told her it wouldn't be bad. I kind of want them to make it. I don't really know much about Elena but I think Laura deserves a chance. Her mom on the other hand, I am not sure about her. She has ulterior motives for everything. Now Julian scared me the first few episodes but after the last episode, I really like him. He is just doing his job. He didn't want to be the corp interrogator...the heartless bad guy. I say good riddance to Caplan...he was awful...that actor seems to always play the bad guy.
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