Archive for the 'TV' Category
Catching up on my torrents
I spent a lot of time this past long weekend, relaxing in front of my TV and watching a bunch of this season’s new television shows that I’ve been dowloading.
First off was the set of ten mini “Webisodes” and then the Season 3 premiere double-episode of Battlestar Galactica. The webisodes were cool and low budget and a nice contrast from the slickly produced regular episodes. I was pretty happy with these two episodes, even though not that much happened. I was sure that the Galactica would FTL their asses back to New Caprica sooner than four months. And Lee got really fat. Anyway, I guess they are setting things up for what is sure to be an exciting season!
Next was the second episode of the new show Heroes. I was all over this show from the first episode and the second was great. I’ll be watching episode three tomorrow night or something - I can’t wait. It’s pretty exciting and interesting to see these characters discover their “powers”, and the end of episode 2 definitely convinced me to keep watching.
Probably the most interesting and darkly entertaining of the shows I checked out this weekend was Showtime’s Dexter (sorry, no official site link - Showtime won’t let us Canadians look at them). Dexter is played by Michael C. Hall, and is a role that is sometimes oddly similar to but also contrasts his character on the excellent Six Feet Under. Dexter is a blood splatter forensic whose is also self-employed as a serial killer, but he only hunts down and kills those who “deserve” it.
Jericho came next. The pilot was pretty intense and I was intruiged almost right away by the lead character, Jake (played by Skeet Ulrich - should I know who this guy is?). Mushroom clouds appear from Denver, the closest large city to Jericho, and nobody is certain if other cities have been hit and if this is the work of terrorists. Jake is somehow the master of all trades which makes you, along with the members of his family and small hometown, wonder where he has been for the past few years.
So, that was my weekend of TV. Aside from these shows, I’m also following Lost, The Amazing Race, Prison Break, Supernatural… watching TV could be a full-time job, I’m telling you - and I don’t even have cable.
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