Damages

Got hooked on another show. F/X’s new drama, Damages starring Glenn Close. This is a dark legal drama that has a great edge. The main character played by Glenn Close is very devious. She can lie oh so well with a straight face. I have dvr’d the episode from last night and will watch it later tonight. If you haven’t, you should check it out.

Update:

Watched the second episode of Damages last night and I am really hooked. The show starts with “the end” and is seen in flashbacks to the past leading up to the opening. Really well acted and very believable. Can’t wait till next week.

Mad Men

An AMC Channel original drama, Mad Men, is growing on me. I watched out of curiousity based on it being produced by the same producers as The Sopranos and it being about advertising, of which is my profession, loosely speaking.
So far, I really like it. It is based on ad men in New York in the 60’s. The characters are played very well and very believable. I like the way the era of time has been portrayed. Lots of cigarette smoking, early drinking of cocktails, cheating on wives, kids not wearing seat bealts, TV dinners. A really fascinating look into a quickly fading era of time. There has only been two episodes, but they have been really great. I am looking forward to Thursday nights again (I used to really enjoy NBC’s Must See TV, Wings, Seinfeld, ER). If you haven’t seen the episodes and don’t want to pay for them on iTunes, you can read the synopsis on AMC’s site. Main character Don Draper says, “What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons”, and I am persuaded that he is right based on what I have seen.

Twilight Zone

Monday and Tuesday of this week, the Sci-Fi channel ran a Twilight Zone marathon. Usually I watch a few episodes, but this time I DVR’d a bunch and have really been enjoying them. Granted, they are pretty corny at times, but some of them really make good points. Alot of the time, the moral is, “be careful what you wish for” or “nothing worth having is easy”. Rod Serling was a brilliant writer who was before his time.
Not much else to say. I’m trying to force myself to make more entries in this blog. So…there went!

Remember Jack Handey from SNL?

Read this quote just now and laughed about the pertness of it.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don’t know what your rights are, or who the person is you’re talking to. Then, on the way out, slam the door.
by Jack Handey