Isn't that supposed to start soon? The last one ever? Thank God, but you realise they will find another way to rehash it and bring it out as something else. Brilliant, just another new reality TV nightmare.
Talking of reality TV, I caught a glimpse of Project Runway today, for the first time ever. It was nowhere near as bad as I imagined. Next Top Model on the other hand...
Anyway, so this week. Not been a big week on the media front, I've been re-watching some old films and so reviews are pretty thin on the ground. Book wise, I'm almost finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Both are novels, I have to admit, I only started because of the fact that they're best sellers, not that that's always a bad thing. But I genuinely barely even read the summaries before borrowing them from the library (Yes, I'm a big borrower. To be honest, when you read as much as I do I'd go bankrupt if I tried to buy everything that even vaguely interested me) and I've been pleasantly surprised. Never Let Me Go is nothing like what I expected (It's a Sci-Fi Novel in Drama clothing) and it reminds me a lot of 1984, Children of Men and, well, basically every dystopia future novel I've read. Also, Repo! The Genetic Opera the film because it some parts it feels actually quite spine-tingling, perhaps because a lot of the novel is looking back at the memories of a child.
We Need To Talk About Kevin is great. I love the letter format, especially when most of the text is focussing hugely on the past because it really makes you feel like the husband; you're the reader, remembering the shared past with the characters. I do feel that since reading Sixteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult (I know, I'm sick of her too now) that the idea of school shooting as the main plot device is extremely overdone. Obviously it's a topic many authors and film makers want to cover as it's hugely important and, unfortunately, is becoming more prevalent in American culture, but it is difficult to find a unique and yet still sensitive perspective on a devastating crime. Shriver has managed to interject something new into the old nature vs. nurture argument however, and this does add to the novel. As Picoult would say, What Would You Do?
DVD wise, It's been a quiet week. I finally bought a copy of Batman: The Dark Knight and watched that for the first time on DVD. I still maintain that film has around three endings and is much too long but the performances are outstanding and I'm hoping that there are plans for another. I did get a little free comic in the DVD as well though, which was nice.
New things I've watched this week...mostly I've been catching up on Survivors Season Two. I loved Season One but managed to miss all of Two on TV and on BBC IPlayer so had to rent it. Not as thrilling as number One but still with some great cliffhangers and once again leaving me yelling "NOOOOO!" at the Computer screen as episode six (the finale) finished. Why, I ask you, can the BBC not make a series longer that about thirteen episodes? Just because it goes on longer than a few weeks doesn't mean we'll all lose interest. American shows goes on for much too long (*cough* 24) yet they still drag in the ratings. Please give us a show we can really get invested in. It takes you at least three episodes to get into a show and then a good while after that to actually begin to care about the characters. I promise that if the BBC produce a decent drama/sci fi show lasting for more than a week, I will stick with it for at least seven episodes, just to prove a point.
So quick little update over. Hopefully, I will have a media filled week and will have much more to say next week. Also, I promise a big old review of In Treatment (I'm on episode 40, we're almost there!) and hopefully, a look at some more recent books.
Until next week.
