Finished
Penny Dreadful. I’d summarize the whole thing as good but somewhat indulgent in our willingness to suspend disbelief. Eva Green and Timothy Dalton steal the whole show. Josh Harkness does wonders with his character. I am somewhat impressed with Dr. Frankenstein’s actor’s ability. Actually, There’s no shortage of acting talent on the show, but the characters are not given even handling. Billie Piper’s character starts off looking like a main character, but is nearly immediately reduced to a bedridden and tragic lump which mysteriously motivates Harkness’ character. Frankenstein’s Monster, after a fantastic introduction, fluctuates wildly between a sensitive but socially clumsy theater geek to a kind of absurdly murderous intrusion into any scene where his creator is even mildly happy, a lethal version of Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition. I am, however, committed to seeing season 2 each week as it comes out. Pretty awesome.
Started
Z Nation, and am kind of interested. It’s by The Asylum, who are known for releasing mockbusters such as
Transmorphers,
The Day the Earth Stopped, and
Snakes on a Train. It has the level of quality you’d expect from them. The only known actor on the show is Horrold Perennium, a who played 2nd tier characters on
Lost and the
Matrix sequels. Any shot which
can be composited together from various other shots, is. Nothing makes any sense, and the show embraces it. It’s fun, nonsensical, and even whimsical in its use of visceral violence. I’ll watch a few more.
This isn’t real, but I’d watch it:
Felicia Day just showed up on Supernatural
i dunno.... i dunno.
Enh. I like her.
Supernatural producers know their target demo pretty well. Without having seen it, it is lame for me to say this, but it was probably a well-calculated move.
