...., a new, original "horror" series streaming from NETFLIX.
The Link
I watched all of the first season on my computer, while I simultaneously perused other stuff on an equally nearby TV at the same time (repetitive coverage from the disaster in West and of the manhunt in Boston, the PGA, TT's spring game, "Men in Black II" and "Boogie Nights," etc.).
Today wasn't a great entertainment day.
I didn't think "Hemlock Grove" was especially good or particularly interesting.
Not enough bare skin or bloody violence to sufficiently spice up a very slowly moving, too talky story, IMO.
After a while good stuff starts, but I thought it came too late and too sparingly.
Both "Bates Motel" and/or "Vikings," though less visually sanguine and/or graphically sexy in the end, have been more entertaining and more inventive small screen viewing for me.
I believe those two series have better acting, principally and overall, also.
And not nearly as much scripted angst or otherworldly action as in "Twilight," which I'll rate as only barely, if ever, being in tune with my male cinematic entertainment tastes, especially the first part of the "Breaking Dawn" two parter about the pregnancy and wedding and which really, really, really drug for old, sexist me.
However, I thought the last part of that final two parter, showing the battle with the Voltri, was decent, even stirring.
I liked that concluding (so far) engagement as much as (or even more than, for its apparent dscisiveness and stark clarity) the occasional epic battles in the, overblown and neverending for a casual viewer like me), Rings saga.
I think "TrueBlood," throughout, has been much better and more satisfyingly consistent escapist viewing for definitely Southern male, possibly redneck tinged, me.
JMO.
You might deliciously dig any of these variously varied offerings the more, if you're particularly wired their way.
And "Hemlock Grove" did inspire me to look up "Upir" in my on line urban dictionary.
Your personal opinion might be well-judged or confused, different, correct or even wrong, but is always noted and appreciated.
Any thoughts?
The Link
I watched all of the first season on my computer, while I simultaneously perused other stuff on an equally nearby TV at the same time (repetitive coverage from the disaster in West and of the manhunt in Boston, the PGA, TT's spring game, "Men in Black II" and "Boogie Nights," etc.).
Today wasn't a great entertainment day.
I didn't think "Hemlock Grove" was especially good or particularly interesting.
Not enough bare skin or bloody violence to sufficiently spice up a very slowly moving, too talky story, IMO.
After a while good stuff starts, but I thought it came too late and too sparingly.
Both "Bates Motel" and/or "Vikings," though less visually sanguine and/or graphically sexy in the end, have been more entertaining and more inventive small screen viewing for me.
I believe those two series have better acting, principally and overall, also.
And not nearly as much scripted angst or otherworldly action as in "Twilight," which I'll rate as only barely, if ever, being in tune with my male cinematic entertainment tastes, especially the first part of the "Breaking Dawn" two parter about the pregnancy and wedding and which really, really, really drug for old, sexist me.
However, I thought the last part of that final two parter, showing the battle with the Voltri, was decent, even stirring.
I liked that concluding (so far) engagement as much as (or even more than, for its apparent dscisiveness and stark clarity) the occasional epic battles in the, overblown and neverending for a casual viewer like me), Rings saga.
I think "TrueBlood," throughout, has been much better and more satisfyingly consistent escapist viewing for definitely Southern male, possibly redneck tinged, me.
JMO.
You might deliciously dig any of these variously varied offerings the more, if you're particularly wired their way.
And "Hemlock Grove" did inspire me to look up "Upir" in my on line urban dictionary.
Your personal opinion might be well-judged or confused, different, correct or even wrong, but is always noted and appreciated.
Any thoughts?
