TV Shows

TV Shows that I watched and related topics.

6 September 2010

Eureka!

from Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heurēka, “I have found”) I have found my affection for the TV show Eureka only recently. When I first borrowed the DVD, I had no idea what to expect, because “a town full of geniuses” is a pretty vague description. But I was positively surprised when, while watching, I discovered that this is fully-fledged fun-to-watch Science Fiction. Eureka is best described as a mixture of Torchwood, Doctor Who and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The lead character is Sheriff Jack Carter, an average guy who accidentally stumbles upon this sleepy Oregon town and ends up being the […]

19 August 2010

Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes

I have only ever read one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books – The Hound of the Baskervilles, a long long time ago. Before even thinking about reviewing stuff that has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, I should probably read all the other books. But currently I’ve been stuck on one book for months because I’m so busy and the weather is too good to hide out in café’s in my lunch break (anything that doesn’t involve rain and temperatures below 5°C is too good). I’ll review this stuff anyway, maybe someone will feel inspired to watch it […]

8 March 2010

History: Contains Spoilers for Rome and The Tudors.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the TV shows Rome and The Tudors! Cesar is stabbed! Anne Boleyn loses her head! So what is the point in watching those shows, you say? Well, when not written by a dull and dry textbook author, history can be very exciting (and much more cruel than any splatter film you can think of). Rome was a truly epic TV show – so epic, that the producers couldn’t afford to do more than two seasons of it – and we’re talking about HBO and the BBC here. Which is quite sad, because towards the […]

5 February 2010

For a little while (Dollhouse)

Regarding Joss Whedon’s show Dollhouse, for the past three years there has been much ado about… nothing? The fans were ambitious when they first learned about Whedon’s latest project, then they were upset about what FOX tried to turn it into. Later on they were glad that it got renewed for a second season, and eventually sad-but-not-surprised that it got canceled. All those facts contributed to what Dollhouse is now: a nice show, but nothing more. Whedon has proven many times in Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Firefly that he can do so much more. Make us roll on the […]

17 January 2009

Mars. vs. Mars or Is there life in 1973?

Is there life in 1973? Is there life on mars? Is there life after the Doctor? Three perfect questions. As briefly mentioned in my 2008 wrap-up post, I got completely and utterly lost in the Whoniverse toward the end of last year. I kept hearing and reading from all sides how amazing the TV shows Doctor Who (2005) and Torchwood were, that I became more and more anxious to watch them. And then I did, and though I at first thought “Well, ´tis a bit trashy.”, I quickly learned to ignore the trashy bits and was completely blown away by […]

10 December 2008

The Interior Design Of A Spaceship

When I was watching Serenity the other night, I was wondering why spaceships in the movies and on TV always have such a cold and unfriendly interior design. I’m not much of a Sci-Fi geek, but I have been watching an awful lot of Sci-Fi lately. And I keep noticing the same thing: depressingly gray rooms made of metal and concrete, grills in the floors and zero comfort. How exactly does River Tam handle being barefoot in that thing all the time? And why do spaceships hardly ever have wooden floors, or carpets, or tapestries? Though the Serenity, a Firefly, […]

20 June 2008

She saved the world a lot: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The first time I heard about Buffy Summers must have been some time in 98 or 99, through a TV commercial. In the following 4-5 years, I occasionally watched her and her friends on TV, twice even had my aunt tape me a couple of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel episodes from US TV. But I never really had the chance or the enthusiasm to watch the whole thing from the beginning, as I should have. Plus it was airing so late and full of scary demons, so that I was either too tired or too scared to watch […]

29 May 2008

International Cinema I: Argentina to South Africa

I watch a lot of movies. The movies I’ve been watching since about a year are mostly Hollywood classics and foreign films. Next to working my way through the remaining 65 movies I haven’t seen from this list, I currently also try to work my way through the world, so to speak. That is, I want to watch at least one movie per country, more wherever possible. That is of course a very time-consuming hobby, but time is not the only barrier in the completion of this task. It’s very hard to find decent foreign movies. Browsing amazon.de can result […]

4 April 2008

Got myself a gun: The Sopranos

The Sopranos first caught my attention in December 1999. I had just turned 15, young and innocent as I was I visited my family in New Jersey and New York to celebrate the 99/00 thing. As sort of a souvenir, because it seemed so weird and different from what we have in Germany, I took home an out-of-date issue of the TV Guide. It had The Sopranos on the cover, advertising the upcoming Season 2. I’m not sure whether I ever read the accompanying article, but I probably never fully grasped (or just didn’t care) that the show was about […]