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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2009-11-09 08:48 pm
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Stiff Acting

A group of people stranded on an island - check. Mysterious going ons - check. Dark events in the past - check. Love quadrangles and sexy meaningful looks - check. Bad dialogue - check. A goth couple - check. A cute dog - check. About a gazillion episodes ahead of you before the truth comes out - check. If the producers of Harper's Island wanted a worthy successor to Lost they could have done much worse.

Harper's Island is a cross between The Bold and the Beautiful on a high budget with Agatha Christie's bloodiest plot lines and Sweet Valley High's characters. It's 90210 if you could enjoy a character getting murdered each episode. It's Jason Voorhees visiting Dawson's Creek. It's pretty bad but oh so addictive by episode 2. Like [livejournal.com profile] naturalbornkaos, I recommend you just watch it without investigating places like IMDB, otherwise you are likely to bump into spoilers.

Nothing like some sexy young people getting their heads chopped off to get you through winter!

This weekend, Kevin and I just chilled out at home and did my favourite thing in the world: nothing! Some books were read, some NaNoWriMo was written, some coffee was drunk and some trash reality TV was watched. Yesterday, we briefly walked around Victoria Park and I recorded my first two videos EVER on my brother's ancient hand-me-down digital camera. The first video is an experimental and heartbreaking portrayal of Kevin walking as a jogger goes past; the second video is a terrifying and gut-wrenching expose of seagulls going nuts over breadcrumbs.

Now I better stop procrastinating here and go kick some NaNoWriMo butt.
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[identity profile] beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
dammit, you've hooked me with that review. tracking it down now. i'm sure to love it.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Say goodbye to your social life for the next few days. I can see you LOVING this. :-)

[identity profile] beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com 2009-11-19 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
it's made me laugh a lot so far. starting the 4th episode now. total guilty love for it. (and it helps that abby is played by elaine cassidy, who i loved in 'fingersmith'. did you ever see or read it? i think you'd love it.)

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2009-11-20 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Cool, have added fingersmith to my netflix!
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