06 Aug 2010
Give Daddy A Hug
Southland - I've never heard such hype for a show that's been cancelled before. Also, why did More4 take so bloody long to air it? Anyways, I caught the first episode last night and I did like it. I even thought Benjamin McKenzie was convincing as the rookie cop of the piece and Michael Cudlitz's John Cooper is certainly a promising enough character as well. It's certainly got nothing on The Wire but it's got a grittiness that instantly makes it preferable to the slick and overpolished CSI franchise but given the show's fate, I don't know if I want to stick with it, get attached and then annoyed when I realise that there's no more to follow. Recent episodes seem to have followed on Cooper's addiction to prescription medication but it's still an interesting series.
I've never really been big into My Family as a show. It's always been one of those series that's just been there. It's never awful but it's never awfully exciting and given the big deal made into the fact that the character of Michael Harper was going to come out to his family, the episode didn't do anything that extraordinary with it. Sure, they played on Ben's oversupportive stance and had Michael's partner's father take the homophobic but aside from that, nothing new. Still, maybe that's better than how EastEnders have been dealing with the Masoods over Syed in the last few months. Tonight's episode also see Michael's experiences in a gay bar being crushed by his father's bumbling.
BBC3 are trundling through their Family Guy episodes and occassionally, I'll sit down and watch one. The one I ended up watching last time was Quagmire's war hero father coming out to his son that he was becoming a woman. As usual, it's largely played for laughs, mostly politically and Brian's reaction when he finds out that the mystery woman he slept with was formerly a man is far from great in one way but hilarious in another one. Also, who knew that Quagmire could really get mad that badly?
It's been months since the fourth season of Skins has aired on E4 and with as movie combining the first two generations due for next year, something else to look forward to is the arrival of the cast for Generation 3. Pictured above are newbies Alexander Arnold, Dakota Blue Richards, Sean Teale, Sebastian De Souza, Will Merrick, Laya Lewis, Freya Mavor and Jessica Sula. Nothing yet has been disclosed about their characters or plotlines but over the next few months, expect more stuff to materialise about the new kids in town, such as which one of them is the gay character, who's the kooky one, who's the bad boy and who'll die in Series 6? Thoughts anyone?