The show is working a Jedi mind trick on me. Try as I might to hold onto my standards, I dare say I’m coming around to enjoying myself on Thursday nights again. I think it’s because Mary is such reliably fluffy company, and Cat wears ridiculous hats, and Lynda, that sexy leprechaun, pops up every now and again to throw down. It’s so oddly interesting to watch the main dramas play out—the growing tension between Cat and her bags-packed husband Charles, the Salahis’ ridiculous delusions of grandeur and entitlement—when we know the endings already. Read More...
Catching up with ”The O.C.” 1. Better Than I Thought: The O.C. Season 4
(Warner Bros. DVD)
I admit it — I tuned away from the final season early on, right after Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) entered that wussily staged cage match. Now I see what I missed: the rise of Autumn Reeser’s Taylor as a fine, funny love interest for Ryan, lots of good jokes from a clearly-too-old-yet-still-game Seth (Adam Brody), and a succession of terrific subplots and scenes for his underrated parents (Peter Gallagher and Kelly Rowan). Read More...
Catherine Hardwicke has some experience with literary horror adaptations, having previously directed the first Twilight movie. But for her contribution to the new Netflix anthology series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, Hardwicke tackled another iconic horror writer: H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft is a legendarily verbose writer, and his stories (such as "Dreams in the Witch House," the namesake of Hardwicke's episode) often feature protagonists struggling with psychological horror. But strangely enough, there were similarities between adapting him and Stephanie Meyer. Read More...
