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WTF of the week – The Good Wife

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Dear ladies and gents,

another good WTF of the week.

To be honest – I’ve been watching the Good Wife out of habit. And not because I find the storylines particularly interesting. The cases were meh at best and Alicia – Will – Peter love triangle has been boring me to tears. Yes, I know the Good Wife is all about the nuance and whathaveyou, but come on!

Also (and this is just my opinion) – in their pragmatism all of them were getting a bit predictable. Of course Alicia was going to take the partnership when it was offered to her. And of course she was going to ditch Cary and the other associates and any and all plans to start a new firm. And of course she was going to smile, shake hands and thank the other partners for the opportunity. Of course. And that is expected in real life. But this is a freaking TV show! Shake things up a little bit for crying out loud!

And finally (FINALLY!) – in the season finale it happened. A total game changer. FINALLY!

Alicia decides to leave Lockhart/Gardner and start a new firm with Cary.

If the writers go through with it (if being the operative word, because it wouldn’t be the first time the writers have pulled the old bait and switch – think House), the landscape of the series will change so drastically, it should be fun and interesting to watch, no?

Am I the only one who is excited by the prospect?

Good vs Bad

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Dear ladies and gents,

new series I’ve checked out this week.

THE BAD

Do No Harm

Oh gawd, don’t even know where to begin with this one. It is a twist on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. To say it fails to deliver I think is an understatement. It is a story about a brilliant neurosurgeon Jason Cole (played by Steven Pasquale – you might remember him from Rescue Me), who has a dark secret – he has an evil alter Ian Price. This alter of his shows up every day at the same time. Cole manages to keep him in check with some type of experimental drug but after prolonged use, it doesn’t work anymore. So Ian shows up once again to wreck havoc with Cole’s life.

The premise, I mean, I guess it could work. The dialogue however is so horribly clunky, it’s just painful to watch at times. Pasquale meanwhile… the doctor dude is so earnest, it’s just… the alter on the other hand… well when he turns into his alter, he looks like he might be constipated. Or have something stuck between his teeth, can’t decide which. And I don’t think I’m the only one who didn’t like it (not that the ratings mean much). I hate to sound harsh, but don’t bother, it’s just one giant facepalm (as demonstrated by Mr. Humphries below).

THE GOOD

House of Cards

Ok I’ll try not to gripe about House of Cards being an adaptation of an UK series by the same name (also book written by Michael Dobbs), because frankly that only gives me indigestion.

Anyhow House of Cards is a Netflix production (and for what it is worth – David Fincher is on board as an executive producer). It is about a House Majority Whip and Democratic candidate Frank Underwood (played by Kevin Spacey). He gets screwed over for the position of the Secretary of State and as Cabbagepatch so eloquently puts it in Star Trek – Frank has come to have his vengeance. And make no mistake he will have his vengeance one way or another. The cast is quite good (Robin Wright stars as Frank’s wife Claire), the writing is top notch, there is intrigue, Machiavellian machinations and whathaveyou to keep you occupied. My only (minor) gripe is that is a tad bit too slow. Not slow as any AMC show, but a bit slow nonetheless.

Anyhow thumbs up from me.

So dear ladies and gents – tell me, how you seen anything particularly good of late? Or something atrociously bad?

Leverage canceled

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Dear ladies and gents,

first let me wish all of you happy holidays! I hope you had a lovely time. Or rather peaceful and cozy time? (yes family gatherings can be a bit erm overwhelming at times). And I also hope you have invested in a quality pair of stretchy pants. That one is self explanatory. Be as it may – it’s nice to have you back!

Now unfortunately for a bit of bad news – as I was munching on some cake, I saw the news Leverage got canceled. And I almost choked on a bit of walnut.

First I was all like

And this

With a bit of this

Then I got a bit angry

Just a tiny bit

While I understand that five seasons is an excellent run for a cable show, this comes after the news that Leverage has been nominated for People’s Choice Awards as favorite cable drama (as it happens you can vote for the show at this link)

And that kinda makes it worse and made me do this

If it is not obvious – I am 12. Mr. Devlin however is a much more gracious person then I will ever be

(Snape approves of the letter mind you, not of the cancellation).

You know, it’s lucky there is so much cake around at the moment otherwise I don’t know what I might do.

Tell me dear ladies and gents, will you miss Leverage?

Stephen King’s Under the Dome to air as TV series

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Dear ladies and gents,

I do like me some Stephen King. Like loads. And even though I will always be partial to his collections of short stories (how can you not like Different Seasons or Skeleton Crew?), his novels have always been my jam. Apropos of nothing I’ve read through Tommyknockers, The Stand, It and Under the Dome this summer. Don’t ask why.

Also don’t ask why I like books that can do double-duty as door stoppers (just last week I bought P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves omnibus. Why did I go with that particular book? Because it is Jeeves. And it is over 700 pages long. Ahem.)

But I digress.

The point of this post is news that Under the Dome will be made into a TV series by CBS. Which, at least to me, makes sense. That book is long. Really looong. It has tons of characters. Tons of stuff happening at the same time. But it is important to point that that a) the book will be used as a launching pad for the series and b) it will be a series, not a mini-series (do you remember Tommyknockers? Yes, that was kinda bad).

I like watching Haven and it originated as a similar concept. Plus Brian K. Vaughan (who was a writer on Lost) is doing the script.

So I think we can be cautiously optimistic Under the Dome might turn out to be good after all. On a side note – I am dying to see how the series is going to be like visually. I mean, come on, it is a huge ass dome with shit sticking to it like crazy, aren’t you a little bit curious?

Anyhow dear ladies and gents – Under the Dome? Excited? Or apprehensive?

Source: EW