I Need A Hero I really liked the first season of True Detective. It was a wild and magical story with a lot of mumbo jumbo and talk about Time being a Flat Circle. It was also pretty clear who the two main stars of the show were. Lots of people came and went, but our two detectives were the stars. I have no idea who the hell’s supposed to be the main character in HBO’s True Detective Season 2. With a dozen or so people sharing screen time, and four people who seem to be sort-of main characters, the…
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You Don’t Know Jack
Barry Levinson’s made for HBO movie is about the completely eccentric retired Doctor Jack Kevorkian, who believes that it is his duty to put people out of their misery. With the help of his sister and his only friend in the world, who happens to run a medical supply business-Doctor Death starts to help people who no longer want to live, kill themselves. Each death has a small number showing how many people died with Dr Kevorkian’s assistance. We end around 130. The cast of You Don’t Know Jack is impressive. Al Pacino, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, and blast from…
The Inner Circle
T. C. Boyle’s The Inner Circle is the story of Professor Kinsey and his obsession with all things sexual. In the book we find that Prok, as Kinsey is known to his associates, is a pansexual pervert who loves all manner of deviant behavior. Part and parcel of his personal philosophy, of course, is that there is no such thing as perversion or deviant behavior-all human animals want all manner of sexual contact. The story is told from the perspective of John Milk, one of Prok’s many students/sex partners/researchers. Prok has sex with anything that moves, and so to, does…
Cemetery Junction
The story of a group of desperate young Brits who want more out of life than their parents got. We follow around three losers in their early twenties who still enjoying getting drunk, starting fights, and painting obscene graffiti. One of the young hoods decides that he doesn’t want to work in The Factory, but wants to make something of himself. So he becomes a door to door salesman. Cemetery Junction is set in 1973. There is still open racism, women are ment to stay at home and fetch things for their men, and men are meant to work until…
The Humans Are Dead
Flight of the Conchords is a wonderfully stupid show about a couple of wanna be digi-folk stars from New Zealand and their really bad Manager. They are a luckless pair who lack such things as a fan base, a budget, or much talent to speak of. Like most HBO shows this one is a little on the quirky side, but I like it. Part of the shows charm is that we get to hear the Conchords sing their latest terrible song. My favorite Conchord song is The Humans Are Dead. It’s a short little ditty about how robots took over…