A Monkey movie review

Wow. I loved this haunting and affecting film from Argentina. I can't put into words how much I love this film and it's two female leads.

The basic plot of this non linear film is as follows: the pretty young daughter of a well connected Buenos Aires judge falls in love with her family's beautiful young maid. The only problem is that all the men connected with the young maid end up falling for her and having sex with her as well. But she really loves the young girl who loves her so ardently. They plan to escape Argentina and the troubled maid's past but things go awry. The daughter escapes but comes back to rescue her love. Toss in lots of intrigue, a false arrest, a house of ill repute, lots of smoldering looks, tender kisses, cuddling, big fat wet tears, revelations, and a few other twists and you've got yourself one heck of a movie.

It's no wonder that men and women alike kept falling for the maid, played by Mariela Vitale Emme. I fell in love with her the second I saw her myself. I ask you, how could you not fall for this magnificent specimen?

See? You want her too. You know you do. Well, I'm happy to report that not only is she smokin' hot, she can act too. She's very good in this film. She tough, tender, sexy, vulnerable, guilty, shy, and much more in this role.

Equally good is the super cute gamine waif Ines Efron as the daughter who risks everything for love.
The director of this fine film is a woman by the name of Lucía Puenzo. She also directed the film XXY, which is about a intersex girl, played by Ms. Efron. It's also on Netflix instant streaming and HuluPlus, which means I must see it soon.

I highly recommend this film by Ms. Puenzo, The Fish Child.

Four out of five Michigan Republicans are voting for...

"Romney. I like that he's wealthy and I hope some of that shit rubs off on me. Make it rain Mitty boy!"

"Romney because he was born here in Michigan. Sure he was born on a Mormon compound where they pray to Xenu and give one third of their money to the people who make green Jell-O and to Satan, but it's still Michigan. Fuck Ohio."

"Romney. I like his hair. His pubic hair that is."

"Romney because Santorum wants in my wife's vagina. Come to think of it, so does Newt."

"Hodor."

Generic Oscar wrap up

Since I didn't watch a second of the Oscars this year I'll have to give you a generic wrap up. Ready? I sure hope so!

• Holy shit those production numbers sucked ass. What were they thinking?
• The choice of host was insane. How dare they try to a) skew younger, b) try to placate their older nearly comatose audience, c) fuck with Oscar tradition like that.
• That actress who wore that dress looked like a) a disgusting whore, b) a fashion train wreck, c) a vision of loveliness.
• For fuck sake will that Oscar winner never shut up?
• God damn it, he or she will never win another Oscar, how dare the Academy cut off their acceptance speech like that.
• John Travolta looks like hell. He needs to pray to Xenu for a new body.
• The actor/actress who I wanted to win didn't. Damn, now I feel empty inside. The rest of my days on this earth will be soul crushing and bring me naught but numbing pain. Until next year that is.
  
• What the fuck is she/he doing there? I shit out more talent in the morning than they have in their entire body of work.
  
• A film about the Holocaust won/didn't win an Oscar? God damn anti Semites/Jews who control the media, how dare they do this to us?
• Meryl Streep is how old? Shit, who cares, I'd still bang her given half a chance.
• The telecast is longer than the list of excuses Republican evangelicals give for fucking over the poor and pissing on blacks, gays, and women.
  
• There wasn't enough cleavage on the show.
• The red carpet show sucked balls, Gwyneth Paltrow's sweaty lady balls.
• They left out my favorite dead film person in this year's montage of the dead. God damn them. I shake my fist at them for doing that shit.
• ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...what? It's over already? It's only 1:30 AM, it can't be over! Bastards. I'm never watching this shit show again. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
  

Hey Saskia Reeves, how much do you love me?

That's it?

Oh well. It'll have to do.

You were born the same year I was and I must say that you've held up a lot better than I have.

Norwegian of the week

I hope this clears up a few things for some of you

It's true

The rumors are true, Donna Augustin is my new pretend black girlfriend. I fell for her as soon as I saw her in episode 3 of Snuff Box. Sorry Freema Agyeman, you're out.

A Monkey Movie Review

A beautiful but aging actress (Miriam Yeung Chin Wah) seeks to regain her youthful beauty so she may stop her husband from fooling around, so she goes to see a woman (Bai Ling) who sells dumplings that are thought to reverse the aging process. It turns out these dumplings contain a very 'special' ingredient that's harvested in most unusual ways. The dumplings work but at a very high cost and then despite everything, they still don't stop the philandering husband.

This one of the creepiest most unsettling films I've ever seen. It's not hard to figure out the magic ingredient in the dumplings which makes the film all the more creepy, especially the scenes where the dumpling maker makes her harvests.

The performances in this Hong Kong horror film are splendid. Bai Ling, who I usually find as sexy as yesterday's leftovers, is smokin' hot in this film. She also creepy and calculating. Miriam Yeung Chin Wah is beautiful, sad, and repellent as the aging actress who wants her husband back at any cost. Meme Tian is luminous as the unsuspecting pregnant mistress. And Tony Leung Ka-Fei is one lucky guy because he got to do hot love scenes with all three of those previously mentioned actresses.

I highly recommend this creepy little horror gem.

A quick book report

I just finished this book last night. I liked it but it's not as good as the first one. It's clunky at times and it sags a bit in the middle but it picks back up towards the end. I wanted less Jon Snow and Bran and more Daenerys and Arya. The Imp is fast becoming my favorite character in the series with Theon and Asha Greyjoy running a close second.

I'll read the next book in the series in a month or so. After reading the first two virtually back to back, I need a break from the mystical fantasy genre. And I'm eagerly awaiting the HBO adaption to hit the DVD shelves in a week or two, so I'll be busy devouring that.

They just can't stop themselves

Franklin Graham says that he accepts it when Newt Gingrich tells him he's a Christian. However, when Obama says it, not so much. What's the difference there? Obama is black and not a full fledged Republican. It's not surprising to see that the son of Billy Graham has such a double standard. After all his father said it was a good thing we bombed Vietnam so that we could bring Jesus to them after we got done bombing the shit out of them.

Santorum says that Obama has a phoney theology. Then he tries to say he was talking about his environmental policies. Then his press secretary said we need to watch out for Obama's radical Islamic policies. Oops, she said she meant to say environmental policies. Bullshit. Both of them said what they meant to say. It's what they believe, so why try to hide or disguise it? Because they're stone cold hypocrites that's why.

When they get caught saying what they really mean they back track and claim they were misquoted. Bullshit. Conservatives are all about making others take responsibility for their actions but they demand you don't hold them accountable for theirs.

Tell me again why idiots like these need to be in power? And why I should listen to them.

You're welcome

This brilliant pitch black comedy series is now on Netflix instant streaming. It's one of the few the BBC ever commissioned and ran only once. I just watched the first episode and it's as twistedly brilliant as they come. It's like something I would have written. It's mind bending, hilarious, strange as hell, and a must see.

Religious hypocrisy round up

• Rick Santorum said that Obama's theology wasn't a real theology, meaning of course that Rick thinks Obama isn't a real Christian because he isn't an intolerant gay hating women fearing Catholic. Lil' Ricky thinks that Protestants aren't real Christians as well, he said so in a speech. To these religious nut jobs if you're not exactly like them then you're not a Christian at all, which then means they can dismiss, marginalize, and ultimately do violence towards you, all in the name of getting you saved so you can be like them.
• Westboro Baptist can't even be bothered to protest at funerals any more. They photoshopped themselves into the site where Whitney Houston's funeral was being held. Look, if the usual suspects who are perpetually outraged over everything can't get off their asses to make all Christians look bad, then please corporate media, stop giving hateful pricks like them so much attention.
  
• It's a shame tens of Catholics are outraged over Catholic institutions that get federal money having to provide access to birth control but they're silent about their church's commitment to universal health care for all, ending war, and treating the poor with dignity. Once again the rights of fetuses who might exist trump those of people who are already born.
  

Reviews

I can't believe it took me so long to watch this beautifully shot, beautifully acted, and beautifully written biting comedy. Alec Guinness's Ealing Films are an international cinematic treasure.

This one is about a scientist, Guinness, who invents a supposedly indestructible dirt repelling fabric. He makes one suit out of it and convinces one textile manufacturer to produce a line of clothes using his new invention. Trouble arises however when everyone but Guinness figures out that if you made indestructible dirt repelling clothes then you'd run labor out of work and management would go bankrupt because after everyone had one suit of clothes they'd never need another.

It's almost quaint to see how they portrayed union labor so sympathetically in this film. It's a good snapshot of where the labor movement was in post war Britain but it's almost too hard to believe that workers ever had that much power over big business. It's also hard to believe that there was so much textile work in England.

This film is very good and it's a beautiful black and white film to boot. The whites really pop out, especially Guinness's white suit. A scene that really stands out for me is the one where the mill owner's daughter negotiates her price to seduce Guinness out of taking his invention public, she and the other mill owners quickly figure out that they may be asking her to talk to Guinness but what they're really asking is for her to whore her self out so they can keep their positions of power and dominance. It's a powerful scene. Another great scene is the one where the mill owners and the union's works committee have finally caught Guinness after chasing him through the streets. He stands before them like a lamb being taken to the slaughter and when they discover his fabric isn't what he claimed, their laughter is like knives in to his psyche. It's brilliant I tell you.

This film should be required viewing for anyone who claims to like films as an art form.

These two films are the prequel to the hit series Doc Martin. They tell the story of how the good doctor came to Cornwall and how he became accepted. These films are very different from the Doc Martin series that came after them. In these the character of Doc Martin is likeable and very easy going, there none of the uptight arrogance that comes later. In fact, these films are very sweet and they read very much like a Cornish Northern Exposure. And that's not a bad thing but the producers rightly figured out that if they kept Doc Martin a nice easy going guy then there would not be much room for character development and if they'd kept him sweet and likeable, these two films probably would have been it for the series. Wisely, they chose to make him gruff, distant, and barely likable so that they have plenty of space to explore him and his interactions with the quirky citizens of his small adopted coastal Cornwall village.

I liked these movies but I like what came after them a whole lot more.

A Monkey Mini Series Review

I'd addicted to BBC period dramas. I admit it. I just finished watching this one:It's not as socially conscious as The Way We Live Now or Lark Rise to Candleford or some of the Dickens productions are but it hooked me and reeled me in nonetheless.

A widower country doctor with an incredibly beautiful daughter meets and marries a woman with a 'troubled' daughter of her own. The new wife of the doctor turns the doctor's household upside down, much to the chagrin of his lovely daughter Molly. Molly takes solace in the friendship of a neighboring down on their luck aristocrat family. Secrets are shared, reputations nearly ruined, and romance is thwarted at nearly every turn but in the end true love triumphs.

I enjoyed this one because it focused so much on the women in the story. Yes, the men were still integral to the plot and the action but overall, this one is about the women. And what a bunch of lovely women they are. I found it hard to look at anyone but Justine Waddell, who played Molly, when she was on screen and she's on screen a lot. She's in 85 percent of the scenes, which suits me just fine. Keely Hawes plays her not so virtuous step sister and she looks magnificent but to me she pales in comparison to Ms. Waddell.

Bill Patterson, as Molly's dad, the country doctor, is very good in this production. As are Tom Hollander and Anthony Howell. But the best male performance is turned in by Michael Gambon, he plays the down on his luck neighboring squire. He's full of himself, full of bluster, and full of piss and vinegar towards those he looks down on, especially the French. He turns in a hugely winning, sometimes hysterically funny, and always great performance.

If you're a fan of British period drama, this one should be right up your alley. I highly recommend it. But don't blame me if you fall in love with Justine Waddell like I have. And no, you can't have her, she's mine. I claim her. And one of these days I'll let her know about it. I'm sure she'll be ever so pleased.

The Victorian stink eye

Molly Gibson has nothing but contempt for those who would take birth control away from women.
And she's pretty disgusted with the war on women in general.

Brunette of the year

Justine Waddell.

Big money bully

"Frank VanderSloot is an Idaho billionaire and the CEO of Melaleuca, Inc., a controversial billion-dollar-a-year company which peddles dietary supplements and cleaning products..." And he's a litigious right wing anti gay bully with deep pockets who tries to silence his critics and those he disagrees with. Fuck him. Read this article about him.

Please Mr VanderSloot, come after me. Please try to shut me up. You and your pals in the Mormon 'church' will never silence me. You anti gay piece of corporate shit.

And seriously, if you use, promote, sell, or buy Melaleuca products, you're an idiot. You're helping to fund the anti gay far right free speech hating religious agenda in this country.

Here's a few words from a minister about the current contraception brouhaha

Greetings my children. I'm the Right Reverend Peter Smell-stink. Please allow me to explain why we in positions of power in the Christian faith don't want women getting free birth control pills.

The purpose of sex is to make new babies so that they can grow up to be damned for not doing what we in the church say. That's it. This 'sex is a gift from God to be enjoyed when ever you feel like it' nonsense has got to stop. Sex is for making babies and that's it. And if those babies don't grow up to be Christians who accept everything we tell them, then they're going to hell and so are you for bringing the god damned little heretics in to the world.

If sex was for pleasure, which it isn't, then women could have sex all the time without making babies. We all know women can't control themselves. When they see a man, any man, they want to have sex with him. If they're free from the constraints of having to make babies, then it's anarchy. Why women will be wanting to have sex with

• Negroes
  
• Indians
• Beatniks
• Buggerers
• the Irish
• liberals
• Canadians
• Mexicans
• Irish emigres
  
• Methodists
• college professors
• Communists
• the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
• Democrats
• atheists
• handymen
• Irish setters
• drunks
• med students
• lawyers
• Mackerel snappers
• NBA players
• chimney sweeps
• boot blacks
• drug store cowboys
• Guinness drinkers
• feckers
• Paddys
• Fenians
• and scientists
  

And many more I assure you. If history has taught us anything, it's that women have no control over their lady parts and that they need men of God to tell them how to use and not use that slippery devil thing between their legs. So, really, we're just doing them a favor when we tell them what to do with their bodies, that way they've got plenty or time to think about women's things. Things like ribbons, baking, cleaning, having babies, flower arranging, and not having sex for pleasure.

Thanks very much for your time and I'm sure I won't see many of you in heaven, unless you do what we tell you and you give us all your money and stop asking us for any accountability. Jesus told us he hates it when you ask us to be accountable. We mean it. Now go away and make sure no women are out there fornicating.

Quick hits

• The TV Show The Big Bang Theory isn't celebrating nerd culture, it's making fun of it. It's mocking nerd culture. Next time you watch an episode of it have a look at who the butt of most all the jokes are, it's the nerds. Duh. And honestly, it's not that well written, acted, or funny. It's got one thing going for it, Kaley Cuco's chest.
• I'm no fan of Cynthia Nixon. She's one of those women who other women think we men ought to love. No. Sorry. I find her bland, boring, and unwatchable. But that's not her worst crimes in my book. Her worst crime is saying that for her, being gay is a choice. She's since tried to qualify that statement by claiming that since she's bisexual she's choosing to be with women. But the damage was done with her first statement no matter who hard she backpedals. She's given hope and comfort to the 'pray away the gay' crowd and to the hatemongers at the American Family Association and NOM. Yuck. Just take all the cash you made on that gawd awful Sex and the City franchise and go away.
  
• Rest in peace John Severin. You were a huge part of my childhood and I thank you for all your hard work and your art.
• People with Netflix instant streaming, stop bitching please. You claim there nothing to watch on instant streaming? You know what, if you only like two TV shows and one genre of films, then you're right. So shut up and cancel it and spare the rest of us your whining. I've had Netflix since October of last year and I've watched a shit ton of TV shows, feature films, and documentaries and you know what? I've still got almost 500 shows and movies in my instant queue. Broaden your tastes a bit, watch something besides movies about NASCAR and wrasslin' and you might find that there's a bunch of great stuff on Netflix. And yes, I still hate Netflix's online advertising. Fuck their pop up ads.
• I don't want to say I hope Liz Trotta gets raped by someone in the military, but if it did happen, then it would be karmic justice.
• I love how people who never served in the military know what's best for those who do. It kind of reminds me of the men who are sworn to be celibate yet who give sex and marriage advice and who want to tell women they can't use birth control pills.
• Republicans really hate Mitt Romney. It's easy to see why too, he's a sleazy greasy opportunist who never saw a bandwagon he didn't want to jump on. Don't like his position on an issue? Give him a few minutes, he'll change it.
• Thank heavens we're still keeping Afghanistan free from peace. It's totally worth bankrupting our country so those bastards live in a state of permanent war.
• Are we at war with Iran yet? If we're not the White House, Congress, the CIA, Israel, and the defense industry will get us there momentarily. Have no fears, we've got to have someplace to ship all those vets with PTSD to and we've got to use up those cruise missiles and cluster bombs we've been hoarding.
• And finally, have we won the war on religion yet? If not then where do I go to sign up to fight in it? I'm sick of militant Christians, fundamentalist Muslims, and right wing Zionists telling me that I have to be sensitive to their nutty religion. Fuck them. I do not care what they want. I want to live in a world free from their religions, so fuck them. Deal with it. Same goes for Scientologists, Mormons, Hindus, Shintos, and what ever other religions are out there. I don't believe in any of your made up fairy tales, so kindly fuck off.
  

Here's some beautiful women telling a joke

"A liberal,"

"a moderate,"

"and a conservative walk in to a bar..."

"And the bartender says, 'Hello Mr. Mitt Romney.' "

"Hahahaha, that's funny. Now, can we all make out with you Dr. Monkey? Please?"

Meep zorp...

means 'Happy Valentines Day earthlings!'

Opinions, I has them

Here's what I think about some pressing issues and current events:

• The death of Whitney Houston- Girl, what took you so long? I had you down for a drug related death years ago.
  
• CPAC- Call me when they aren't being over the top stupid racist idiots who hate black people, gays, and Hispanics.
• The Grammys- Don't give a flying fuck and I haven't ever since I stopped being a teenager.
• Lap Top Shooting Dad-He's a colossal douchebag and it's obvious where his kid got her sense of entitlement from. If he could have shot his daughter and got away with it, he would have done it because she obviously had it coming for emasculating him on the internet. He's scum and if you are one of the minority who is cheering him on, then fuck you.
• Mitt's 'cheating' ways- Santorum says Mitt cheated to win the meaningless CPAC straw poll, Ron Paul says Mitt cheated to win the Maine caucuses. Holy shit, the modern Republican party is made up of whiny twats who live to blame others for their failures.
  
• Fraudulent breast cancer charities- Komen for the Cure is a criminal enterprise. If you give them one penny of your money, it's one penny more than they deserve. The last thing those twats want is a cure for breast cancer because the day it's cured, that's the day they'd all be out of a job.
• Austerity riots in Greece and Portugal- Hey governments who keep doing the bidding of the World Bank and the IMF when it's clear your citizens do not want the austerity packages you're forcing on them, I've got two words for you: French revolution. Here's a few more words: your citizens are sharpening the guillotine blades.
  
• Roman Catholic Bishops- Old men in dresses who fuck little boys don't need birth control, so why should they be forced to let women have it? It's not like those women want that shit anyway...oh wait, what? They do want it? Well then, fuck you old dudes in dresses who fuck little boys.
• Hypocrite Catholic politicians- Fuck you Santorum. You're suddenly concerned about what the old fags who fuck little boys want? If you're all in on the birth control, abortion, and marriage equality issues your church preaches, why the fuck aren't you on the climate change and health care for all bandwagons too? Your church is for doing something about climate change and for giving free health care to all people everywhere, why the fuck aren't you as well?
  
• Beer that tastes like grapefruit juice- Stop it. Brewers, stop making that vile shit or at least put a label on the bottles so I don't have to waste my money on a six pack that tastes like grapefruit piss water. I mean it. This is not negotiable.
• Justine Waddell- Why did it take me so long to discover you Ms. Waddell? I could have been carrying a torch and secretly crushing on you for years had I discovered you earlier. Please British film and TV industry, stop hoarding and hiding beautiful women like Ms. Waddell and give a monkey a heads up on them when you discover them, will you? Thanks.

"Hello? May I speak to Dr. Monkey? This is Justine Waddell, I'm naked right now and I need to talk to him."

A damn fine pair of films

This film is one of the pillars of the Australian 'new wave' of films. It's based on a Thomas Keneally novel, which I tried to read back when I was a teenager but I couldn't get into for whatever reason. When I saw the film was going off Netflix instant next week I decided to watch it yesterday. Boy, am I glad I did.

The film is about a half white/half aborigine man named Jimmie Blacksmith. He's raised by a white minister and his wife and he wants nothing more to fit in the white world of turn of the century Australia. However, there one huge problem, turn of the century white Australia wanted nothing to do with him. He managed to scrape by on some odd jobs and to even marry a white woman after it was obvious she was pregnant, possibly with his child. After indignity after indignity and being given the shaft by employer after employer, Blacksmith goes on a rampage with first his uncle and then his brother. They murder, steal, and loot their way across the country. Driven by blind rage the white authorities throw all their resources after Blacksmith and his kin. Finally they catch and kill them all.

This is a tough film to watch because of the violence and the racism. But it's an important film to watch because of those reasons. I imagine that this film helped Australia come to grips with it's treatment of it's native population like many films of this nature did for the USA. Tommy Lewis shines as the put upon Jimmie Blacksmith who's main crimes were to want to be like whites and marrying a white woman. There are many fine performances in this film and it's definitely worth your time.

Highly recommended.


A couple loses their child to a horrific dog mauling accident. Afterwards they move to a small creepy little close knit town. One night the wife stumbles upon a secret ritual where the dead are being brought back to life. Sick with grief over the death of her daughter she pleads and begs until her husband relents and allows the locals to raise their kid from the ground. Told they have only three days with their risen child they enjoy their time with her but then on the third day, things start to go wrong. Very wrong. Very, very, wrong.

I loved this creepy atmospheric horror film. It's full of eerie locals, misty rainy nights, skullduggery, secrets, buried secrets, unburied bodies, and chilling effects. Eva Birthistle, one of my adopted actors, shines as the grief stricken, yet still super hot mother and Aidan Gillen is very good as her father. Timothy Spall is creepy good as the head local in charge of the resurrections.

I loved this film from start to finish. It never tries to be anything more than an entertaining little horror film. It sucked me right in and it held me right up through it's shocker surprise ending. I loved the use of children as objects of horror and terror and the use of animals in the story as well. It's all very creepy and eerie and very very entertaining. This one should become a cult classic in my opinion. I know I'll see it again sometime, I liked it that much.

Very highly recommended. And I'd say that even if the film didn't contain a lovemaking scene with Ms. Birthistle, hubba hubba.

Perspective, use it or lose it

A couple of quick reviews

Don't be fooled by the title, the pictures, or the size and shape of this book. It's not a book for young kids, unless they're seriously warped already.

It's just about the most brilliant thing I've ever beheld. The words are few, the illustrations are fantastic, and the story is insane. Insanely good.

I just finished watching the first series of Land Girls on Netflix instant streaming. And yes, it's brilliant as well. It's just the type of production that the BBC does so very freakin' well. It's got fully realized characters, damn good actors who bring them to life admirably, and the story is full of ups and downs that keep you entertained and absorbed.
The plot revolves around four young women sent to live and work on a farm during the early years of World War 2. And yes, there was an actual organization that was called The Women's Land Army, their task was to farm the farms of Britain so that they would not remain fallow while the men went off to war. The 'girls' get into all sorts of interpersonal dramas and they share tragedy and triumph along the way. They're not all angels with lilacs and roses for pubic hair, they all make mistakes, suffer for them, and keep on going. And yes, it's all terribly interesting and engrossing.

The four female leads are very good and very easy on the eyes. After all, they're all British babes who get down and dirty on the farm, in the fields, and behind each others backs. What's not to love? However, as good as the four leads are, the best performances of this series are turned in by the two villains Lady Hoxley and Sgt. Tucker, played by Sophie Ward and Danny Webb respectively. Lady Hoxley is as cold and distant as an iceberg is to a native of the tropics and Webb's unhinged uber patriotic sergeant in home guard is a thing of evil beauty.

I highly recommend this one.

Judi Dench wants to remind you...

...that Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and Ron Paul will never ever be President of the United States.

TV reviews

This series is an update/reinventing of the 1970's BBC series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. In this one Martin Clunes plays a middle aged man who's hating his job but can't leave it because of all his financial obligations. He loves his wife, played by Fay Ripley, but he's as bored with their marriage as he is with is job. He indulges in Walter Mitty-esque flights of fancy and fantasy as he tries to cope with the stultifying life he's trapped in.

This series is okay, it's not great but it's not bad either. They made it seem too much like an American sitcom and it suffers because of that. Some of the characters are just caricatures and never rise above two dimensionality. Clunes has done better work elsewhere, as has Ripley. I'm glad I saw this one but I doubt I'll see the second series. But if I do it's because of one thing, Lucy Liemann.

Ms. Liemann plays a woman who works with Perrin. He develops an instant crush on her and they have a fling at having a fling until Perrin calls it off. The idiot.
Liemann is super cute and sexy in this series and in fact I've developed an instant crush on her as well. And I'm glad to say that she's now my imaginary British comedy girlfriend. Is that okay with you Lucy? Being my imaginary British comedy girlfriend? Say nothing, just smile if you're cool with that bit of news:
Hells yes.

In this series Stephen Fry plays an asexual small town attorney who handles all sorts of cases while dealing with all sorts of odd small town people, some of whom he's purported to be related to. He takes all cases, no matter how small or trivial, and he somehow manages to win them all while placating his nutty neighbors.

I found this series a bit twee for my tastes but I can see how others might love it, it's chocked full of the usual eccentric loveable British characters we've come to know over the years. My main problem with the show is Fry himself. He's almost sleep walking through this thing by playing a version of himself. There's no stretch to anything he does or says in this show. He's essentially a straight man who is there to react to all the 'oddballs' in his town of Market Shipborough.

My other problem with this show is that some of the oddball characters are not really odd at all, they're just annoying or worse yet, bland. Hermione Norris as Fry's half sister is super annoying and the guy who plays his brother Simon is perhaps the most boring actor I have ever seen. I wanted both of them to go away and never be seen or heard from again, and that's saying something because I usually love the work Norris turns in.

The bright spots, performance wise, in this show belong to Karl Davies, Phyllidia Law (Emma Thompson's mother), Tony Slattery, and Celia Imrie. I'll admit to having an inappropriate crush on Ms. Law, she's a silver fox.

This show is okay, it's a fun time waster but don't expect great acting, plot lines, or stories.

What are you Republicans outraged about now?

"I'm outraged Obama tried to interject religion in politics. We Republicans are the only ones allowed to do that kind of shit. Praise Gawd!"

"I'm outraged that Planned Parenthood is allowed to do abortions on women that aren't even pregnant!"

"What are you wearing baby? I'm naked and I'm rubbing my...holy shit...What? What am I outraged about? I'm outraged you're interrupting my call to my stock broker!"

"Two words: Ron Paul's prostate."

"I'm outraged that my hairdresser gave me a hairdo that makes me look like Kid from Kid N Play. Hey, what happened to them anyway? Is House Party 5 still going to be made?"

"Muslims. I'm outraged over Muslims who won't give their lives to Jesus. And Jews too. What's up with them people?"

"I'm outraged you thought I was a Republican. Did you not see my afro?"

"I'm outraged you can buy a baby chick, raise it, kill it, pluck it's feathers, cook it, and eat it but if you try to fuck it while it's still alive you get arrested. My liberty to fuck chickens is being taken from me. Will Ron Paul help me get it back or has the all powerful chicken lobby gotten to him too?"

"I'm outraged I married the guy above me who wants to fuck chickens. Do you know a good divorce lawyer?"

"I'm outraged that Obamacare won't let me have a prescription for Oxycontin and rotgut vodka."