Wot No Fringe?

I was totally unprepared for the lack of Fringe this week.

Hmph.

Egg and The Great Undead

I'm not really a fan of zombies. I don't watch zombie films, I don't read zombie books. I don't invite zombies round for dinner. Even Charlie Brooker couldn't lure me in with his zombie offering, and that's saying something.

I am also not really a fan of Andrew Lincoln. This is something that you probably can't really appreciate if you aren't from the UK, but he is everywhere. Really. Aside from his televisual and film career, he is an amazingly prolific voice over actor. I can barely go an evening without an advert with good old Egg doing the talking.

These two things in mind, I'm not entirely sure what is attracting me to Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead. I wasn't even aware of the comic before Googling generic-internet-searching the new show.

But there is something there I think. I watched the trailer. It makes me all tingly. I know - you don't like the complicated science talk, but sometimes I can't explain things in any other way. Is this the show I have been looking for? Have I been wasting my time waiting for HBO to come to the rescue? Have AMC been dark horsing around while I assume Mad Men is a one off? Am I going to have to watch Breaking Bad now?

And who knows? Maybe, in adopting a new accent, Andrew Lincoln will find a whole new fan base. I'm referring to myself there, by the way.

BoredWalk Empire

Fine. It's fine. Not spectacular, or awe-inspiring, or inspirational. It's fine.

I've been having trouble getting into the swing of things when it comes to Nucky and friends. It's slick, it's well done, it's expensive. It has a great cast, some good performances. But it just doesn't grab me.

I am rather disappointed. That's my fault for placing too much emphasis on HBO being the saviour of my television world. I'm waiting for something else to reach out and grab me, something that makes me anticipate each week. Maybe it's the genre that's a turn off. Maybe it's lubricated with so much money that it can't hold any interest. I've been wondering if it's more like a long, complicated film rather than a well planned out series. Maybe I'm just feeling down as there was no Fringe last week.

And so....as my next post will show, I've moved on to pastures new, learned no lessons, and simply transferred all of my eggs into a new, zombie shaped basket. This one will perform, right?

Performance Anxiety

So it turns out that the three new pilots I decided to try out are all rubbish. Laughably so. And I will watch all sorts of rubbish.

Hmph.

Which leaves me at a loose end. So I have finally started watching season 4 of Felicity (I move with the times, what can I say?) and am also getting around to all those episodes of Southland that have been sitting on the Sky planner for months. 

So for the next few weeks I will be cherishing the last few Mad Men episodes of the year, and pretending that I'm watching a current JJ show, not one a decade old. At least the future looked good then, eh?