Since my move, I’ve effectively been without television (I’m waiting for the owner to approve the installation of lines in rooms where I actually want to and have put my TV). This is actually not too big of a deal since I haven’t been home much, since there aren’t any important sports on TV right now, and because I have many DVDs plus my roommate just bought the first seasons of Mad Men and Entourage. Plus there’s a mega theater right near by so I was able to see the new Harry Potter over the weekend. Here are some of my thoughts on these three titles.
Entourage: I watched the first disk (the first four episodes) and I nearly gave up on this show. Actually, if there had been anything else to watch I would have given up on it. It’s a show about dumbass assholes who have good things happen to them. Sorry, but that’s just not compelling television to me. Fortunately, the episodes on the second disk were actually well written and entertaining enough that I wasn’t stuck focusing on the dumbassery assholishness.
Mad Men: I’ve already seen a lot of these episodes, so I watched the DVDs to help fill in the gaps. I still like watching it, but right now I’m wondering if the show is actually going anywhere. The 60′s era novelty is likely to wear off, so I hope they make the new season the last one and go ahead and tie up all the loose ends.
Harry Potter: I’m not Mr. Harry Potter fan. I’ve not read the books (although I did end up listening to two of them in audio book format. I have seen several of the movies. What I’m trying to say is that I really don’t know the ins and outs and the tiny details of the series. That also helps to make me a bit less biased, or at least biased in another direction. On that note, the latest movie just isn’t that good as movie. This is not to say it wasn’t fun to watch; I found it to be fairly entertaining. It was good that it strayed a bit from the formula used in the first several movies and that it was a bit less childish. However, and maybe the books don’t reveal this problem, it seems like the creators lost focus, or interest or both. It all felt a bit lazy. Ultimately, once it was over I realized that I just paid to see 2 1/2 hours of, basically, filler material meant only to set people up for the remaining movies.
