The hit and shit list.
Folded:
- Control (moving portrayal of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis’ doomed life)
- Family Guy: season six on DVD (hit and miss, but there is always something offensive to laugh your pants off at. Try the ‘Hope and Rape’ deleted scene if you really want to feel uncomfortable)
- The Unit (David Mamet’s bit of TV jingoism has too much chat, but still passes the time. Best thing on Virgin 1 anyway)
- Dragonette (lively, derivative Canadian glam band)
- That hilarious Beowulf advert (if you don’t laugh at Ray Winstone’s comedy-rendered face, you’ve got something wrong with you)
Creased:
- Ugly Betty: season two on Channel 4 (still ugly, still unfunny)
- Virgin 1 (apart from The Unit, everything else is the pits. Virtually no subtitle coverage either)
- Alexa Chung’s new look (why has this girl decided to cut her own hair and start wearing baggy polo shirts. Doesn’t she like being pretty or something?)
- Cut knuckles (ever caught your knuckles when attempting to fix a dishwasher or something? You spend the next two weeks looking like you fight in pub car parks for a living)
- Ewan McGregor’s goatee (as sported on last week’s Tonight With Jonathan Ross. Made him look like ‘skinny Chandler’ out of Friends)
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Family Guy definitely is hit and miss now. Even the last two of season five are barely passable. They traded way too much wit and subtlety for gore, low-brow and toilet humor. Even the non sequiturs are too long or iffy nowadays. I can’t think of an episode where someone didn’t explicitly explode, piss or crap.
I apologise to HS. I’m afraid that in 5 of my last 6 posts I’ve made spelling errors.
In view of your HS type-of-blogger statement: “They tend to be super-literate, affluent readers aged between 18-34″, you might consider suspending my blogging privileges. Also, my wife refers to me as effluvium rather than affluent so please consider this as well.
Again, I apologise.