The Wire, Season 1, Disc 3
I like the Wire, but I don't like-like the Wire like everyone else seems to.
Dogs Decoded: Nova
Part of an ongoing experiment where we try to figure out what our dogs are thinking.
Genres collide! Unsatisfyingly!
Futurama, Season 5
Freakonomics
Based on the book of the same name.
Man, Woman, and the Wall
This movie is so Japanese.
The Princess Bride
We watched this, and then watched it again with William Goldman's commentary on. Not too revealing, but now I can say I did it. The dialogue still sparkles in this movie. I've occasionally thought as I watched this movie, that I don't think it could be successfully remade. It's not a just-perfect movie, but the chemistry and joy in its inception and production are non-reproducible. In the commentary, it was flattering to get William Goldman's validation, saying roughly the same thing.
2012
About as dumb as we thought it would be. Yep, about that dumb.
Arrested Development, Season 3
I never watched the whole 3rd season in order, so I decided to do that. Still funny, but the humor was starting to wear thin. As long as I'm heretical about people's favorite shows, I'll say that maybe it's just as well that this show ended when it did. Now it will always be James Dean, and never fat Elvis.
Soul Eater, series 1
Netflix just added a mess of anime, and I've been sampling. So far, this is the only one that's made it past the first episode for me. The story is standard, but the design sense is odd, and there's a pretty readable pattern in the way manga/anime builds stories that I'm trying to internalize. Anyway, it's fun, and the characters seem one-dimensional at first, but the story starts to builds depth into them as it goes.
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