the terrible british series about government espionage wasn't imitation game but something called the last... the last enemy or something. government spying on civilians and some terrorism subplot. each chapter even has some sort of earnest introduction by some actor.

it's complete shit. watch it if you can lol. awful!

the turing movie was so-so. turing's story itself is great, just the movie as a finished product didn't do it for me--had a hallmark movie of the week flavor to it. his khan of the future, i'm sorry but montalbán owns that forever. i blame jj abrams from it though.

anyway, frumious b. is great though-- he really is a good actor. also appears to be a very decent person IRL. i have no complaints about him. i was just commenting on his ubiquity vs. that of the much less visible don jon.

mr. robot season 2 just introduced a cop to the proceedings.

i'm not sure i like this becoming another cop show derivative.

they'd better not

I enjoyed Mr R S2, it's been a bit on the confusing side, though,

I'm watching Show Me a Hero, Oscar Issac. Pretty well put together, he's a new city councilor in Yonkers NY during the late 80's. Federal desegregation order and low income housing background. It's really well done. Alfred Molina shows his skills in this

he's got multiple personalities and he hallucinates like a momforto so yeah it's hard to track all the plots & counterplots

i should check out that show you mention!

Haha... Bandersnatch!

Sorry, I just caught that.

Did you know there was a band by that name? From... you guessed it... San Fran in the '60s.

ha ha ha ha

you're the first person to get it, ever-- or at least to mention i. my brain just can't avoid it.

didn't know about the hippies!

Impossible, especially given the frequency with which the word has been used in other media. Wasn't there just a movie based on Through the Looking Glass? There was a detective novel (one I've never read) called "The Frumious Bandersnatch" as well.

Anyway, just to make sure you know I do indeed "get it" ...

When I was little, I had an illustrated edition of the Jabberwocky (just the poem), and my mom read it to me every night. :)

from memory, so may not be perfect

"He took his vorpal sword in hand
Long time the maxim foe he sought
And rested he by the jubjum tree
And stood a while in thought
And as he stood, the jabberwock with eyes of flame
Came whistling through the fulgy woods and burbled as it came
And one, two and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack
And left it dead and with it's head he went galumphing back
"'And thou has slain the jabberwock?
Oh come to my arms, my beamish boy!
Of frumious day, calloo callay" he chortled in his joy.
Twas brillig and the slighthy toves
Did gyre and gimbal in the wabes
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the momes rathgrabed."

yes ha ha ha

i meant the wordplay/rhyme thing

the inevitable cumberbatch-bandersnatch link

i can't not think it

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so, been catching up with HOUSE OF LIES season 5

it's still entertaining and funny after all these years

perfect for the cynical season-- although spring is near

Ahaa! Yes!

I always remembered it as "Frabtious day, calloo callay" but, I know that's not right. Still, I've been known to recite that (falsely) when something sweet happens in my life... even "he chortled in his joy."

Now this is sappy, but my mother used to call "beamish boy" from time to time. I didn't mind. :)

Warning: nobody EVER watch the 100.

I know it has an inexplicable 90% rotten tomatoes rating (no fucking clue how that happened, as it's simply shit) ... but don't even think it.

maybe you've heard people compare it to LOST, the greatest show of our generation. Still! Don't do it!

It is exactly like LOST, only with spaceships instead of airplanes, bunkers instead of hatches, and with a terrible young adult cast that makes it feel like 90210. So despite all the countless things it rips off from LOST, it's ultimately the anti-LOST. It's as if LOST's loser juvenile delinquent little brother knocked up the Hunger Games and made a shame baby that was raised by the CW.

Don't ask me how I know this. It's not a story I care to tell. But dear god, heed me! Especially if you love lost -- oh, sweet Desmond, what have they done to you? -- stay as far away from this show as you physically can.

You having a giraffe?!

ok, out of the blue im catching up with Better Call Saul. half of the first season got me hooked. second season I missed out but, im hoping Netflix will offer it right when the 3rd season is airing. they normally do this right? Gus might make an appearance I read. los pollos.

I'm not having anything, except a good darn time! ;)

Seriously though, LOST is awesome. It's a great show. Great, great, great. Regular basic cable television has not seen that level of awesomeness since.

Maaayyyybe there have been some as-good offerings in the years since, but every one I can think of has had the benefit of being on a cable or premium network, or subscription service, where they can get away with more (blood, swearing, sex, drugs).

Breaking Bad — tremendous, of course.
Also I've never seen The Wire, so... yeah.

PROMISING!!! First episode sets things up for a slow burning freak show. Love Tom Hardy.

Has anyone seen the Young Pope? And would they recommend it?

you should - it's brilliant.

My Sheridan Animation 2005 graduating class of classical animation and faculty interview on our student films DVD is strictly non-commercial.

I don't know how you saw it Wayne, but if someone posts it on youtube it needs to be taken down. My class could get hurt! :(

Is that on already?

I have HBO, so I'll check it out and get back to you. Looks absolutely grotesque to me, probably tons of black-hearted fun.

finished mr. robot season 2 which was FUCKING GREAT. dark as fuck and all, and sure maybe more than a bit preposterous, it's certainly no the wire, but it was good.

now fixin' to finish house of cards season 5 which so far has been funny and entertaining and i don't tire of the schtick