Posts tagged as Revenge
The Best New TV Show of the Fall Season
For some reason I decided to take this fall TV season with terrible seriousness and I dutifully set my DVR for all the new offerings. Most of it was easily discarded by the second episode. (So thank goodness for some returning shows; "Bored to Death" is again absolutely awesome.) "Pan Am" is soulless and dreadful and slow. "Prime Suspect" is great to watch and incredibly edited and makes New York City look fun and gritty, but still when it comes up on the recorded shows list, it rings no emotional bells. "Charlie's Angels," good grief, I turned off the pilot 20 minutes in, it's despicable. (And so long forever!) "Terra Nova" comes off as very simple-minded, it's pitched for blockheads, but I'll keep watching because it's impressive how much money they're willing to spend. "Person of Interest" came on way too strong. "The Secret Circle" started off entertaining and trashy but you pretty much can't stick with it if you're not 15, it's pitched intellectually somewhere beneath the "The Vampire Diaries," which is really saying something. Otherwise, I'm not watching any of the comedies because I'm humorless—maybe some are good!—and "Enlightened" I am hoarding so I can consume all its Laura Dernitude at once. And then there's one show, one show that should be reviled and mocked and has no right to be considered good, and so far it's absolutely the best thing around. Somehow, "Revenge" punches all the pleasure centers all at once. READ MORE
M.I.A.'s New Protest Tactic: Inciting Prank-Call Flash Mobs
M.I.A. is apparently not happy with the profile of her in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, in which Lynn Hirschberg engages in a pretty meticulous takedown of the pop provocateur's cannily crafted image. (Sample line, in which M.I.A. is responding to criticisms that her overheated take on the Sri Lankan civil war is simplistic and damaging: "'I kind of want to be an outsider,' she said, eating a truffle-flavored French fry." There are also lots of descriptions of the clothing M.I.A. wears.) M.I.A.'s response to the profile: a Tweet containing a phone number and the message "CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE, ill b taking calls all day bitches ;)" The winky? Is likely there because the posted phone number actually belongs to Hirschberg. This seems like a bit of a petulant stunt — not to mention something of a tacit admission that the piece maybe cut too close to the bone, no?
Pluto Is Going To Rocket Through Space And Kick Our Ass
Pluto is turning red. Apparently the funny little 1,467-mile-wide ball of rock and ice that snobby earthlings named after a cartoon dog before stripping of official "planet" status four years ago is entering a new phase in its 248-year-long seasonal cycle. "These changes are most likely consequences of surface ice melting on the sunlit pole and then re-freezing on the other pole," said NASA, in a statement issued by its Space Telescope Science Institute. Other astronomers, though, aren't so sanguine. Marc Buie, of the Southwest Research Institute in Texas says, "It's a little bit of a surprise to see these changes happening so big and so fast. This is unprecedented." We'll see what people say when the supposedly negligible "dwarf" starts to quiver and shake and lines itself itself up on a direct angle with New York.
Secretary Shafts Jerk Boss
This is very dreamy. Though she participated in her lawyer-boss's (alleged!) hiding of fees, once he became a total schmuck, this secretary narced him out hard. The motivation? READ MORE
Party To Be Thrown For Beaters Of Alleged Child-Rapist In Philadelphia
After North Philadelphia neighbors beat up the man suspected of raping her 11-year-old daughter, the victim's mother expressed surprise. The police are not pressing charges against the mob-and "I plan on inviting them to a welcome-home party for my daughter," the mother said. Unfortunately, the mob also beat up someone else who was not the suspected rapist, but never mind!
