“Those people in Manhattan? They are better than us. They want things they haven’t seen.”

[proggrrl]

Still digging BIONIC WOMAN. Yup. Now we have Jamie hacking herself maybe? Ha. And apparently Katims is running the writers room now? Well that's GOT TO BE a good thing. Nice script, Eick.

About PRIVATE PRACTICE: I haven't watched last night's yet, but can I say this show brought me to tears for 2 weeks in a row?! 1.1 during the mall-emergency scene (finding out what happened to her son), and 1.2 during the baby swapping scene (oh mommies!)...if they pull this off again...whoa.

I'm still slightly gleeful about last Saturday's SNL muppets sketch. *g* Maya Rudolph makes an awesome Janice!

Gods I'm gonna miss MAD MEN, which ends next week...Last week's ep was just incredible. Peggy's new assignment...Joan doing Roger's makeup...Betty doing the laundry (!!!)...Peggy's date (today's subject line quotes that wonderful scene)...and THE BOX.


Can't stop typing without bringing you today's braindump...

• Fandom gets to vote on the US DVD cover for TORCHWOOD S1 starting 10/15! Cool.
  

• Seth Green is coming to GREY’S ANATOMY. Me likey.
  

• Iconbrilliance for THE SHINING, ALIEN & MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and DARJEELING LTD.
  

• More reasons why Geeks Make The Best Lovers.
  

• Interesting factoid: did you know that “the median income of women age 21 to 30 in New York who are employed full time was 17 percent higher than that of comparable men”?
  

• 101 Cookbooks turned me on to these great links: the person who runs the cookbook section of the NY Public Library has a blog, and there is a great new site selling works of art for $20.
  

• Can we talk for a sec about how James McAvoy is looking on this Esquire cover? *long sigh*

• HBO has decided to respond to fandom’s collective AARRRRGGGGHHH over what DEADWOOD actors Ian McShane and W. Earl Brown have said publicly RE the dismantling of the DEADWOOD sets and the unlikelyhood of the TV movies ever being made. BigscreenLittlescreen collects up all the important links for us. A misguided ray of hope, or spin control?
  

• This sucks - but I have no doubt it is related to the WGA talks. Hopefully it will be worked out soon. Blargh.
  

• I suppose some of you have heard about this Warner Brothers scandal. (Yes, SCANDAL.  If it's true, not out of context, and not a joke.)  I'm on the fence - Nikki Finke is a bit of a shit-stirrer.  Yet it is quite compelling if three separate producers pointed it out independently of each other, and if Robinov wasn't joking.  Frustrating news, with a bizarre upside that it's causing a lot of great discussion about the bigger issue: women and their place as filmmakers and audience.
  

 

Comments

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I dunno about BW. I think the episodes are getting slowly better and better (due in no small part to Katie's great acting, of course); but I also think they do a lot of stupid things that haven't been very well thought-out.

The part with her "shorting out" her tracking implant, by concentrating really hard? I mean, I'll accept the pseudo-science of the bionic nanotechnology, because it's within the believable grasp of near-future tech. But it makes no sense for her to be able to affect wetware implants that have no internal control mechanism, just by thinking about it (thinking about what, by the way?)

They also STILL haven't fixed that silly leg-pinwheeling thing she does when she jumps through the air. AHHHH!

Other than that though, the acting is good and the plot seems to have some idea where it's going.