TV Shows

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 As sort of a souvenir, because it seemed so weird and different from what we have in Germany, I took home an out-of-date issue of the TV Guide.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 […]

29 July 2007

Dexter

Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to Dexter Morgan, who works as a forensics blood expert with the Miami Police Department. He loves his job, and not only does he help his coworkers a lot with his analyzing of the blood splatter on crime scenes, his instincts about killers are always dead on. Why is that? Because he moonlights as a serial killer himself and is a true perfectionist at his little ‘projects’. But he doesn’t just kill randomly – he only kills those who deserve it, people who have killed other people without reason. In their final minutes […]

21 June 2007

Doomsdaylight: Heroes

Yesterday I finished watching Heroes. It’s been a long journey. Sorry for this geeky post. I started watching this show exactly a week ago, and since then I’ve been consuming it like a zombie with the result that I now feel like someone ate my brain. It sure is a lot to absorb, but at the same time it’s relieving to be at the end of the journey. That’s the impact a simple TV show can have on you ?! This definitely isn’t the easy Friday night entertainment you’d expect it to be. On top of that it’s quite graphic […]