Tag: The O.C.

StartUp

2016 TV Pilot Reviews, TV Season Diary

StartUp @ Wikipedia
StartUp @ IMDb

A drug dealer, a hacker and a banker walk into a bar. Well, they don’t actually walk into a bar. But they do meet. This show came only accidentally across my radar so my knowledge of what it’s actually going to be about is a bit sketchy. I can only tell you what happened in the pilot episode and then infer what’s going to happen next.

The banker played by The O.C.‘s Adam Brody doesn’t seem too happy in his job. But he is even less happy when his father walks back into his life and asks him to launder some money for him.

The dad (who has disappeared by the end of the pilot so I don’t know his actual role in the things to come) is a player in the drug trade and was tracked down by a federal agent played by Martin Freeman (Sherlock, The Hobbit). Phil Rask (Freeman) tried to extort the dad which is why he went to his son in the first place.

The money Nick Talman (Brody) is expected to launder belongs to a Haitian drug lord who appears to live by at least some kind of honour and now finds his money gone and is understandably pissed.

The final player is a young woman and hacker (in the classical sense of the word), played by Otmara Marrero. She has developed a new digital currency, far better than Bitcoin per her own words. She’s trying to market it to the bank Talman is working at but they decline the offer. Talman on the other hand is suddenly very interested to invest.

Read more

TV Junkie: A History

Thought Storm, TV Season Diary

I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board.

Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old.

I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story). I watched medical shows like Trapper John M.D. and lawyer shows like L.A. Law. I watched the 80s action shows from MacGuyver to Riptide. I even watched Love Boat every weekday on one of the first private channels in Germany: Sat.1. I got up at 6am on every Saturday morning to watch Rawhide (Tausend Meilen Staub, lit. “A Thousand Miles of Dust”) with a very young and pre-Fistful Clint Eastwood. I knew who Daniel Boone was around the same time I met the Cartwrights as well as the men from the Shiloh Ranch.

And last weekend I binge-watched the first Netflix show House of Cards (Big recommendation! Kevin Spacey is a brilliant Magnificent Bastard!) and I got curious as to how many shows I watched intently over the past two and a half decades.

With the help of the list on the German site Wunschliste.de I created a list of “my” shows.

I only counted live-action fiction shows, no animated shows may they be Saturday morning cartoons like Yogi Bear or Scooby-Doo or evening shows like The Simpsons or South Park. No scripted reality (which I’m avoiding to 99% anyway with the exception of Comic Book Men). In this list are only shows which I followed for more than a year unless the show itself didn’t last that long.

And the answer was: 244 246 247. Two hundred and fourty four six seven different shows I watched with active interest since I’ve started watching television. And the worst thing is: Of most of these shows I watched 90% or more episodes at least once.

Read more

Purchase Diary 2013 – March

DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2013

Skyfall (2012)

Mar 4th – €12.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1027

Men in Black 3 (2012)

Mar 4th – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1028

The O.C.: Season 1 (2003 – 2004)


Mar 5th – €0.00 ($18.00) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12335 – 12341

Argo (2012)


Mar 27th – €9.99 @ Saturn

Collection no. 1029

Looper (2012)

Mar 27th – €12.99 @ Saturn

Collection no. 1030

Read more

Purchase Diary 2013 – February

DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2013

The Bourne Legacy (2012)

Feb 5th – €11.97 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1021

Crank (2006)


Feb 5th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1022

Ted (2012)

Feb 5th – €11.97 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1023

The O.C.: Season 2 (2004 – 2005)


Feb 20th – €10.04 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 12301 – 12306

The O.C.: Season 3 (2005 – 2006)


Feb 20th – €10.04 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 12307 – 12313

Read more

The Pilot Marathon Part 6

DVD / Blu-ray, DVD Marathon, Pilot Marathon

Deutsche Version | Part 5 | Part 7

Since I’ve purchased quite a number of new TV shows, I thought to resurrect this marathon.

V

(1983)

What’s the show about?
A group of underground rebels fights against an alien race who have invaded Earth without making it appear as such. The resistance cell is a motley crew with all kinds of backgrounds and their goal is it to expel the aliens again. And their sign is the “V” – for “Victory!”.

“V”
One day a number of huge space ships appear all over the world. But they don’t come as enemies, but as friends. In exchange for a certain chemical the aliens give us cures for all kinds of diseases and improve our technology. But the aliens and their intentions are not what they appear to be.

My Opinion
The show comprises of the two mini-series V (1983), V: The Final Battle (1984) and the one-season-show V (1984). It has aged quite well, the storytelling stands out for a show of its time and the special effects don’t look that bad, either. It’s still very watchable and that the subject is still interesting is proven by the fact that a remake of the show will come to television land this fall.

Read more

XOXO Gossip Girl

Short Review

I am normally not the fan of teen dramas but maybe Smallville has softened me for the topic. And when I learned that Veronica Mars/Kristen…