Unofficial Tex Murphy

Wanted to like it...couldn't. Don't like the main characters being so young, and ineffectual actors. Neat premise, but the little area of electricity appearing around the pendant stretches all willful suspension of disbelief. Giancarlo Esposito's nuanced and affecting performance Of Gus is nowhere to be seen here. He's either not blinking in menace, or chewing his lines like bubble gum.

Pass.
Holding out for Dexter and Homeland in a week.
And for Dexter fans...I strongly suggest the books (aside from #3.) They are funny, quick and quirky. They are a delightful aside to the series, and toss "canon" out the window, the show and books take separate paths, but both worth the trip. Please please please don't jumpah the sharka Dex!

I caught the first episode the other day while at a friend's house. I still claim JJ Abrams can't make decent television.

One of the things I keep wondering about is how the hell is everything so damn GLOSSY! Everything is SHINY. Even the dirt covering something looks fake. The actors are too smooth. Their clothes can't pass for being over a decade old. Why is their hair flawless?

I wish he'd try linear storytelling some time. Because he sure as **** can't create coherency in his flasbacks, flashforwards and flashsideways and flashupwards and flashinwards and flashabouts.

Sure, Giancarlo Esposito is a great actor, but he wasn't given much to work with, it seemed. And then all these talentless human puppets walk on stage with vapid stares and halfhearted deliveries of their lines and it's all just... No. No no no. No.

No.

I'm with Jen. Looking forward to the next season of Dexter. Which, I read, will be the penultimate season. They're doing this season, and then one more which will be the last season of Dexter ever. And apparently they all know how things'll end, too. So there's that.

And then there's always the latter half of the last season of Breaking Bad to look forward to. And Sons of Anarchy just started up again. Doctor Who is still trucking. And Game of Thrones kicks off with a third season some time in march.

Am I missing anything?

-Fred

We have very different tastes Fred. We agree on Dexter. and I'm beginning to find Revolution a bit taxing to watch, but I'm not with you on Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, Game of Thrones, and especially Dr. Who (which I actively detest).

Give me Fringe, Mentalist, Almighty Johnsons, Warehouse 13, and Dexter of course. I only wish the shows I like wouldn't keep getting cancelled after a season or 2.

You don't like Sons of Anarchy or Breaking Bad? I can live with that. Tastes run different, after all.

But c'mon, you gotta admit they are quality television.

-Fred

I really can't comment on the quality. If you like them, then great. I just can't watch shows that 'glorify' the seamy side of life; things like the Mob, gangsters, bikers, and drug dealers. I much prefer shows that explore upside possibilities. Dexter is a odd exception. While it 'glorifies' a serial killer, he's a most unusual one, so somehow he gets exempted.

Chandler wrote:I really can't comment on the quality. If you like them, then great. I just can't watch shows that 'glorify' the seamy side of life; things like the Mob, gangsters, bikers, and drug dealers.

Have you watched the show? Seriously. Here's 2 minutes to show you how "glorified" it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzULZKyec-0

To me a show that glorifies crime would show the characters doing bad stuff and not facing consequences and having a ball about it. Jesse Pinkman and Mr White face consequences and pain, and boy do they ever.

Shows like The Sopranos, The Shield, and Breaking Bad don't glorify crime. At least in my opinion.

Is my definition of glorify accurate?

I do not think it means, what you think it means.

Dexter is the only show I know where something seamy is glorified. Compulsive serial killings made cool because they're vigilante style. Two wrongs and no rights? Meanwhile, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, Sopranos, the rest of those shows, they do not in any way glorify what you would call the seamy side of life.

In fact I would say Breaking Bad does quite the opposite.

-Fred

Yeah I guess I made an oops there. My bad. What is the correct definition of glorified?

Xander...you're fine. Fred was going all Princess Bride on us.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk

Oh! Sorry, Xander. That particular torpedo was aimed at Chandler, not you.

Although in my defense, your names sound kinda similar. (Not as good as the Chewbacca defense, but I'll take what I can get at this point.)

-Fred

the Chewbacca defense will strangely get you out of a lot of stuff.

"Now that just don't make any sense? Does that makes sense? No! It doesn't make ANY sense"

It's cool, Fred. I never heard of the Chewbacca defense. What is it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdba9C2G14

The best use of the Chewbacca defense

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKi92j6eLE

One day I will use the Chewbacca defense in court. I will then probably lose my law license, but I think it's a fair trade.