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just a few minutes into a new series on pivot (??) called fortitude. its taking the bleak environs crime drama to the extremes of the arctic circle (filmed in iceland). great scenery if nothing else and apparently there is something else.
Recommending Backstrom
Watching some old Columbo on n-flix. A couple of things stand out ... The music. Holy cow, they really put some effort into that. Also the class distinction. I'm several episodes in, and every criminal is wealthy. Estates, yachts, expensive cars. Mercedes, Jaguar, Bentley. Brought down by the man in the wrinkled coat.
Just one more thing. It just doesn't sit right with me. There he is in sunny LA, with a convertible, and the top is almost always up. Now, why would that be?
very long thread on the avclub about favorite simpsons quotes. appreciated this one.
The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong delta. An overheated private removed his flack jacket, revealing a T-shirt with an ironed-on sporting the MAD slogan "Up with Mini-skirts!". Well, we all had a good laugh, even though I didn't quite understand it. But our momentary lapse of concentration allowed "Charlie" to get the drop on us. I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right!
Broad City returns to Comedy Central tonight, and everything about the new season of the show is bigger: It has more swagger, more jokes, more risks. Its creators are allowing their world to freely expand, filling the space of the raised expectations for the new season like a noble gas. The stakes feel higher, the production is more crisp and polished than ever before, and the farcical universe of the show has opened up to include a brand-new cast of characters, both human and animal alike.
If you like Jim Jefferies, you will like Legit.
Binge watched and very much enjoyed season 1 of Transparent An amazon original, the pilot is free and if you sign up for the free one month trial of their prime service, so are the other episodes.