Heads-up for all amateur and professional apocalypse enthusiasts: Discovery Channel is premiering The Colony tomorrow at 10pm EST!
No idea about the quality of the show, nor at what point in the apocalypse we actually begin (I see both crazy “all the cars have stopped” action and “now we have rigged some plumbing!” action, so it’s anybody’s game at this point, I guess).
I do know one thing, however.
PLEASE NOTE: That thing is labeled “BOAT.” So if you thought it was an enormous iron, man, joke’s on you.
Okay, here’s the deal. Sometimes there’s a parody that gently tweaks conventions while still maintaining a sense of self and being generally likable and sympathetic. And sometimes there is a parody that picks up a baseball bat and wades into a sea of tropes, swinging at anything it can reach.
Drop Dead Gorgeous is one of the latter parodies. It hits small-town-hick tropes, Upper Midwest tropes, beauty-contest tropes, closet-quasi-pedo-lech tropes. Sometimes it doesn’t work. Sometimes it does.
Nutshell: Sarah Rose Cosmetics is on the hunt for the American Teen Princess. In tiny Mount Rose, Minnesota, the angelic Amber and bitchy Becky face off for the local crown against a backdrop of supporting actors who all seem thrilled to have a chance to be so relentlessly mean. This is also the movie where, if you paid attention, you get to say, “I already know Amy Adams” any time someone tried to pull any “Have you seen this young actress from Junebug?” shit on you. (She’s hilarious in this, no joke; if you’ve seen it, she was totally impossible to forget.)
“They’re never gonna let you perform naked, I asked.” Continue reading
It’s August 20, and I’m going. I’m going TWICE. (Physically impossible, but I’m going to try.)
I love this show so, so much. And my host of choice has always been Mike, whose cracks seemed both more meta and just meaner, which would of course mean he’d be my favorite. (“He’s mean, you say? Bring him over!”)
Oh, KINGS. How can you look so pretty and manage so little?
I review this week’s Kings episode, “Javelin,” over at Tor.com. Before we jump cut, I just want to point out that Javelin is a reference to a Bible verse I used as a pullquote weeks ago, when I thought that plotline was really revving up. Oh, was I a fool!
Anyway, this week Kings takes to the courtroom. Below the cut, some stuff I didn’t mention in my review, none of which is about the Gilboan justice system. (David-based crimes are considered especially heinous. The elite prosecutors who fabricate these crimes are called Jack and Silas.)
