Posts tagged “review”

Adorable, clueless, and pretty: Kyle XY is Smallville minus the kryptonite nonsense, plus plenty of homoeroticism. Perfect brain-off TV. I burned through all of season 1 in four days and I'm ready for season 2 tomorrow.

Been watching the new Doctor Who season: two great episodes, one disappointing Cybermen two-parter. Cybermen just aren't scary or menacing. They look dorky and are ripe for parody, not fear.

I got an advance copy of the new Doctor Who. The first 20 minutes are rough, but it redeems itself spectacularly. Eccleston is brilliant, Davies' writing is sharp, and Billie Piper actually acts. It's quintessentially British, low on FX but high on character. Consider me a total fanboy.

Saw "By the Bog of Cats" tonight. Excellent, though the Irish accents sapped the lead's energy and her madness came across as stupidity rather than derangement. Still, she was really hot, so that helped.

Saw Shakespeare's R&J last night and it's brilliant in ways no review quite captures. Four repressed Catholic schoolboys secretly act out Romeo and Juliet after lights-out, but their own feelings become tangled with the text. The acting is ferociously energetic, the dual plots stunning. Go see it.