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In Poor Taste
Dec. 9th, 2013 08:23 pmHaving been impressed by House of Cards, I decided to give another Netflix original series a shot and threw Hemlock Grove onto my queue. Seeing Eli Roth's name gave me a little pause (I'm not much into torture porn), but four episodes in, I'm enjoying this. It has its share of gore and nudity, both probably gratuitous. Characters and plot aren't especially original. But it's entertaining, and I don't ask for much more than that out of my occasional viewing binges.
Since I'm not gaming tonight (at the end of a three-day weekend), I'm going to be able to catch Almost Human. It's a cyberpunk cop drama with Karl Urban. He's a veteran cop paired with an android partner. It has good Total Recall 2070 vibes going, and while the production design isn't as breathtaking as, say, Blade Runner's, the future city looks suitably futuristic. Enjoyable stuff.
With Almost Human on Monday night and the better-than-it-should-be Arrow on Wednesday night, the weaknesses of Tuesday night's Agents of SHIELD are thrown into sharp relief. I want to like AoS. I want to look forward to adventures and investigations and all the other good stuff that such a program should have. But it's just not working. The show's boring, and that isn't a word that should be applied to Marvel Comics properties.
Over in another corner of geek media, there's a Kickstarter for a live-action Knights of the Dinner Table movie. Steve J, who used to be seen around these parts as Kingyak, made me aware of this, with the comment "Sometimes, people use Kickstarter to fund things nobody should want." I'm with him on this. There. There's my nerdrage for tonight.
Since I'm not gaming tonight (at the end of a three-day weekend), I'm going to be able to catch Almost Human. It's a cyberpunk cop drama with Karl Urban. He's a veteran cop paired with an android partner. It has good Total Recall 2070 vibes going, and while the production design isn't as breathtaking as, say, Blade Runner's, the future city looks suitably futuristic. Enjoyable stuff.
With Almost Human on Monday night and the better-than-it-should-be Arrow on Wednesday night, the weaknesses of Tuesday night's Agents of SHIELD are thrown into sharp relief. I want to like AoS. I want to look forward to adventures and investigations and all the other good stuff that such a program should have. But it's just not working. The show's boring, and that isn't a word that should be applied to Marvel Comics properties.
Over in another corner of geek media, there's a Kickstarter for a live-action Knights of the Dinner Table movie. Steve J, who used to be seen around these parts as Kingyak, made me aware of this, with the comment "Sometimes, people use Kickstarter to fund things nobody should want." I'm with him on this. There. There's my nerdrage for tonight.
