Space Colonists Find Themselves Abandoned Mid-Colonization.

“Who am I?”

“You’re everything.  You’re yourself.”

“Maybe, in the end, we can still design ourselves.”

I love this show.  It’s a production of BBC America, so there’s a nice variety of UK actors along with some Americans.  The delicious quality of this show is probably what led to it’s downfall after just a single season – I’m sure the cost was enormous.  Eight episodes of space colonists duking it out.  Here’s the IMDB synopsis:

With Earth rapidly becoming uninhabitable, pioneers seek to colonize the harsh terrain of the planet Carpathia. 10 years later, the town of Forthaven faces danger as the planet’s dark secrets are revealed.

And there’s clones.

This show actually got terrible reviews, so what.  It seems like I have a taste for poorly-reviewed shows that get cancelled after only a season or two.  Hmmm… I wonder why that is?  Maybe there’s just no place for sci-fi apocalyptic shows anymore?  Well, I’m sure as hell not going to watch The Secret Circle, so I’d better find another cancelled show…

J.J. Abrams Goes Apocalypse After Conquering Islands, Outer Space, Giant Aliens, Tom Cruise, and the Time-Space Continuum.

I’ve loved pretty much everything J.J. Abrams has ever touched, and so I have high hopes this will turn out better than it looks.  It seems a little too drama-y for my tastes, but the over-arching concept is delicious.  I love post-apocalyptic themes, and this looks like a decently cool take on it.  Although, for the first half of this trailer, I honestly thought it was  the second season of Flash Forward (which was legit and should not have been cancelled).

How do you think this looks??

Also.  I want to live on that commune.

Why The Revolutionary War Shouldn’t Have Happened, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The UK.

First off, I must say, the UK is way more awesome than the US.  At very least in television, er, telly.  Don’t worry, I’m not one of those FREAKS who has British flag pillows and socks and tattoos and stuff.  FREAKS.  I am 25.7% English though, so there’s that.

I’ve been traversing the BBC, more like trolling it actually, because American television sucks.  For the most part at least, here’s to you Dexter.  Did you know that in the UK, they actually have HOUR long shows?  Like, instead of the 42 minute or the rare 45 minute episode which are called an hour, shows in the UK are actually an hour long.  Er, 52 minutes.  Close enough.  That’s like TEN more minutes than US episodes.  Do you know how much can happen in ten minutes!??  Two words: A LOT.  There’s way more time for character development, details, depth, and general awesomeness.  After watching an episode of literally anything from the BBC, I feel about a bazillion times more satisfied.  Okay, I admit, there’s quite a few US shows that are almost an hour long too, but for sake of arguement’s sake’s sake – Team UK!!

Here’s a few of my fav BBC delights.

Why do I like Sherlock?  Why do YOU love anything?  It’s delicious, quick-witted, spontaneous, thrilling, awesome, cool, edgy, hip, British, yum, oh gawd, adjectives.  Benedict Cumberbatch (yes, I did have to look up how to spell that, but I actually had it spelled right in the first place.  HA!) and Martin Freeman (not to be be confused with Morgan Freeman, although, admittedly, that could get awesome) are delightful together.  Their chemistry is just grating enough to be adorable.  Also, if you get a chance, check out some of the creepy Sherlock/Dr. Who fan art out there.

Luther.  Have you heard of this show?  YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT.  It’s a pretty bamf show, if I may say so myself.  Three words: Detective, Anger-Management-Needing, British.  Idris Elba is a bamf.  There’s just no other way of saying it.  I mean, look at this dude: 
It just wrapped its second season, just like Sherlock, and there’s more on the way.  Check out a trailer for it to see if you might be interested, yo:

Survivors is a reboot of the 1970s show of the same name.  Basically, it’s The Walking Dead without the zombies.  Which sounds lame, but trust me, it’s not.  I love The Walking Dead and all, especially the opening credits, but you’ve got to admit, some of the characters *coughLORIcough* are super annoying and, not to mention, IDIOTS.  Survivors ran for two seasons from 2008 to 2010, and then was canceled for some obnoxious reason.  Here’s a trailer that was impossible to embed for some reason.

There’s a crossover from Survivors to Luther in the form of Nikki Amuka-Bird.  In the aforementioned, she plays the tyrannical, violent leader of an eco-friendly commune, whereas alongside Idris Elba in the second season of Luther, she plays a newbie, confused, rule-abiding whistleblower detective.  It’s sweet to see polar opposites.  I literally just found out like microseconds ago that Julie Graham, who plays one of the title characters in Survivors, has a show called Bonekickers, which looks like a cross between Bones and Indiana Jones.  It’s singular season is next on my list.
Long story short, Long Live The BBC!!

Here’s some ish that sort of relates:

• Luther star Idris Elba lands dream role as Nelson Mandela (mirror.co.uk)
• new ‘Prometheus’ trailer has more details, clanging sounds (wwtdd.com)
• “You be Bilbo, I’ll be Smaug,” Says Sherlock (lotrfandom.net)
• Sherlock Scored Star Trek 2 Role with iPhone Audition (escapistmagazine.com)

Vegan Ron Swanson.

Is he a man or a mustache?  I would argue both.
One thing there’s no debate about though is how Ron Swanson likes his animals:
Freshly dead and on a plate.

But may I present to you, the anti-Ron Swanson… Vegan Ron.

Vegan Ron would never approve of THIS:

Scandal-licious.

Here’s the dealio.  I don’t have the interwebz at my apartment, because I’m poor and living off of student loans, and so I have kind of become an iTunes Store freebie tramp – that’s a thing, right?  Well, I am that.  So I watch a lot of dumb stuff just because it’s downloadable and I can watch it offwebz.  I stumbled across a winner:

Inspired by Judy Smith‘s career as a crisis-management expert, this series is definitely going to be intense.  In it’s most elementary form, it’s a fast-talking-lawyery-crime-problem-solver drama set in Washington, D.C.  And it’s the fast-talking part that makes it so fun to watch.  Also, the fact that the writers are willing to address touch subjects. The pilot episode *SPOILERALERT* centers around not only MURDER, but aspects of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and a Presidential sex scandal involving a young page.  ALSO, there’s some crazy love-triangles happenin’ all over the place.  Sounds INTENSE, huh?  Yah, it’s good.  We’ll see what the rest of the season brings, but I think I’m gunna follow this one.

Headlining the cast is Kerry Washington, along with Henry Ian Cusick (LOST‘s Desmond), Tony Goldwyn as the President, and a lotta other peepz.

Looper.

I’m pretty stoked on this.  Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis.  BOMBDOTCOM.

I think this pretty much sums up the plot:

The Downfall of Imagination in Hollywood: An Apocalypse of the Mind.

Oh, America.  Don’t you wish you could sometimes just hop in Doc Brown‘s DeLorean and go back to when the silver screen was saturated with magical creativity?  If I’m going to spend 10.5 BILLION dollars going to a movie in theaters nowadays, it’s gotta be good.  But it’s so hard to tell what’s going to be decent anymore.  Thank gawd for Rotten Tomatoes for some guiding light, but even the tomato smashers don’t always get it right.

Maybe we’re just spoiled?  Maybe we should just expect all movies to be awful and then occasionally be semi-pleasantly surprised?  That’s the mentality I’ve tried to have as of late – kind of bleak, but what can you do when the imagination of Hollywood’s gone to shit Bleepsville.

This is a graphic I TOTALLY stole from Short of the Week.  It’s kind of depressing, but totally true.