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May. 31st, 2010 09:30 pmSo I finished watching jPod this week, the Douglas Coupland's TV adaptation of his own book about a team of freakish genius video-game programmers assigned to the same team by computer error because their last names all started with "J." The show also focuses much more than the book on Ethan Jarlewski's freakish family, who are essentially the Brady Bunch as written by Quentin Tarantino.
Nine-tenths of the series is perfect dark comedy. The acting is excellent and breathes a lot of life into characters that were already excellent (though a little icy). And CBC censors nothing except brand names, so it's pretty astonishing what they can get away with.
There were flaws, though.
( Yes, I'm complaining about homophobia again. And I'll keep complaining about it until it goes away. )
Also, I've finally updated my historical blog - only five months late! This one is about Roswell George Mills, the first openly gay man we know of in Canada (in the 1910s).
Nine-tenths of the series is perfect dark comedy. The acting is excellent and breathes a lot of life into characters that were already excellent (though a little icy). And CBC censors nothing except brand names, so it's pretty astonishing what they can get away with.
There were flaws, though.
( Yes, I'm complaining about homophobia again. And I'll keep complaining about it until it goes away. )
Also, I've finally updated my historical blog - only five months late! This one is about Roswell George Mills, the first openly gay man we know of in Canada (in the 1910s).
