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Star Trek |
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Can we get something straight? Trekkies are not all thirty-year-old computer programmers. We are not all incapable of getting a date. Many have never been to a convention or spoken Klingon. Some of us are even (fairly) normal members of society. I’m a trekkie. Any comments? Take ‘em outside! :) |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
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Since it started seven seasons ago I’ve only missed two episodes of Buffy. So I guess you could say it’s important to me. The writers have put me through the mill, killing off my favourite character, replacing her with a badly written one with no charisma, making the storylines as depressing as humanly possible, losing in completely a couple of times...On the other hand, this is the show that brought the world Spike. Life won’t be quite the same without it. |
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Gormenghast |
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Mini-series time now. This amazing drama based on Mervyn Peake’s trilogy of books much have cost the BBC an absolute fortune. The costumes are gorgeous, it stars many well-known actors and I still haven’t worked out how they did some of the sets. It’s a shame then that in Britain, ratings were poor and it was dubbed ‘Gormenghastly’ by reviewers. They were all mad. Let’s hope the Beeb made back the money selling it abroad… As I said, there’s much acting muscle on display here with Ian Richardson, Richard Griffiths and Zoë Wanamaker featuring among others. However, the star of the show is unquestionably Jonathan Rhys Meyers who puts in a gloriously over the top performance as the devious and damaged Steerpike. |
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| I also like: The West Wing Six Feet Under Auf Wiedershein, Pet Farscape Brideshead Revisited The Simpsons Malcolm in the Middle |
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Perfect Strangers |
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It’s hard to explain how a drama about a family reunion can be as engrossing and moving as this Steven Poliakoff directed programme is. The main focus is on Daniel who attends the reunion with his parents. During the following weekend he meets the beautiful Rebecca and her brother Charles (what is it with me and characters called Charles?!) and become wound up in their own family drama. At the same time we see glimpses of stories from the lives of other guests at the party, and discover that every family keeps secrets. The programme contains many wonderful performances, especially from Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon. |