What I'm watching

I avoided this series because it was lavishly praised by a blogger who has the polar opposite entertainment likes that I have and the post Taxi career of Danny Devito has left me cold, especially his movie career (I'll never forgive him for making that piece of shit not funny one joke movie with Billy Crystal about throwing his mother from a fucking train.), so he was another reason for me to avoid this show.

But after seeing a few episodes of it, I'm really digging it. All the characters are misanthropic assholes and most every episode is a race to see who can behave the worst. There's nothing remotely redeeming abut any of the characters, Devito included, and it all makes for very funny and twisted TV. If you like black comedy, then you'll like this show.

Another show I've been sucked into it Caprica. Which is odd because I tried to get into Battlestar Galactica but it just didn't happen for me. For those of you who don't know, Caprica is the prequel series to Battlestar.

The storyline and the acting in this series have hooked me and kept me riveted. But the biggest reason I'm loving this show is the performance of Irish actress Paula Malcomson.
She was one of the best things about Deadwood and in that series we all saw a lot of her, she played a whore and she did many scenes topless and a few underwear-less as well. And in Caprica even though she keeps her clothes on at all times, her performances are still very naked, metaphorically speaking. To me she's the glue that holds the show together and makes it worth watching. I tune in each week to see how far into her character she's going to go and how much she'll reveal. As her character battles her grief, mental illness, and drug and alcohol use, it gets more interesting as the episodes progress. She's one hell of an actor and each week her performances are like acting master classes.