I've actually been saving this post for a while, just in case I got behind with my movies so I'd still have something to post. I've been doing homework damn near all day and still have more to do so this might not be as in-depth as I'd like it to be but I won't have it said that I didn't try. So here's some TV I've watched fairly recently.
I have only watched a couple of discs of Animaniacs season 3 because I decided to try and get to the Oscar nominees that I had bought but not yet seen, so this is on hiatus. It's Animaniacs, though, so it's not like there's some overarching plot. And I'm going to really enjoy some colorful brain candy and fun songs after I get through this month.
I am 80% done (literally, I have watched eight out of 10 episodes) with season 4 of Game of Thrones. This is also a casualty of pushing everything in my Netflix queue back to make room for Oscar nominees. I would go into detail about what I have enjoyed from this season but since I haven't finished it, I can't. This show has proven to me time and time again that I really can't count on a character making it until I see the finale. So I'm going to keep my trap shut and not jinx them.
Christy talked me into watching season 1 of The Magicians. She bought the show on a whim and really enjoyed it so she sent it to me. I had previously tried reading the books by Lev Grossman and couldn't stand them so I was mildly optimistic about the show. Does that sound counterintuitive? You know how you read a book and love it, then they do a show or movie and it sucks because you loved the thing and then they changed the thing? Yeah, so if I hated the book and they change it for a show or movie, odds seems pretty good that my opinion of it can only improve. The exception that proves the rule is the Fifty Shades series. Nothing could have saved them. It was a shit book and a shit movie that spawned shit franchises. Anyway, The Magicians is okay. I found the main two characters of Quentin (Jason Ralph) and Alice (Olivia Taylor-Dudley) to be deadly boring and the supporting cast barely interesting enough to make it worth watching those two. The concepts is basically what if The Chronicles of Narnia was real but fucked up and the only people who could prevent a magical apocalypse were students from an American Hogwarts. If you read that sentence and got a warm, tingly feeling in your nether regions, knock yourself out. It's on Netflix.
Speaking of Netflix streaming, I also watched season 4 of Glee. Remember Glee? I don't remember why I originally stopped watching it. I think I was moving and had to turn off my cable or got broke and had to turn off my cable and then just didn't care enough about it to catch back up. Watching season four gave me such a rush of nostalgia, though. I barely remembered the characters and didn't really care about their struggles but I seriously missed that feeling of hope and Pollyanna spirit in my TV watching. This is the first season after the main cast has "graduated" high school. Half of them move to New York City and the other half end up back in Lima, Ohio for one reason or another to rejoin their former club as mentors. If you need a pick-me-up, this is the show to watch. Every possible social issue is covered and nothing is so great it can't be surmounted with the power of song covers in 45 minutes.
The most recent thing I've watched to completion is season two of The Tudors. It's actually fucking me up a little because I'm taking a class on early modern England, right around the time of Queen Elizabeth I, so seeing her dad run around establishing a church and hacking folks' heads off right and left is a little surreal. I have already had to stop myself from bringing up the show in class since it has less than nothing to do with the discussion. Anyway, season two is the rise and fall of the Boleyn family and Henry VIII's (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) continuing problems with the Pope (Peter O'Toole) and the other Catholic heads of Europe.
So that's what I've been watching. I'm continually stretched thin and growing thinner as I try to apply equal amounts of energy to work, the five classes I am currently taking, the barest hint of a social life so my friends don't think I've died, Oscar season, and my two blogs. I'm doing the best I can and I hope it will calm down soon. Thanks for sticking with me this long.
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