Just as one addiction ends, a new one begins.
This year started for us with an addiction to The Mighty Boosh, then Gavin and Stacey, then Entourage, then The Wire and now thank god, a new (well, new-ish) HBO televisual feast to see us through the long, cold winter nights
Saw this episode last night and my stomach hurt with so much laughter...
I'm the motherflippin'... can't wait for the second season.
Posted by: Wal | Monday, 10 November 2008 at 08:15 PM
speaking of great hbo products:
generation kill. by the writers of the wire. very impressive indeed.
Posted by: niko | Tuesday, 11 November 2008 at 08:41 AM
Niko - I have heard quite a lot of buzz about this. Is it really good? It's an Iraq drama isn't it? I wonder when it'll come here.
Posted by: Amelia | Tuesday, 11 November 2008 at 08:49 AM
yes it is good. for a lack of a better word, it's real. it's not jarhead, three kings, it's the wire (tone of voice, feel, writing) in Iraq. Don't know when Europe will get it, watching it online.
Posted by: niko | Tuesday, 11 November 2008 at 09:59 AM
FOTC at South by South West a few years back: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hawBkGsE6-A
One of the fans they encounter is the inspiration for Mel, the freaky fan in the series...
Posted by: Nick | Thursday, 13 November 2008 at 02:25 PM
Generation Kill is excellent. It's based on the book (more accurately a series of Rolling Stone articles) by an embedded journalist who rode in the lead vehicle of the lead element of the lead (you get the picture) and is very faithful to it. Like 'The Wire', the characters and situations are presented 'as is' and it doesn't flinch or judge.
Posted by: James | Thursday, 20 November 2008 at 12:27 PM