 
Boon and Limehouse
1) I just watched the penultimate
episode of Justified,
dammit. What I like most about this series? It's conglomerated by and with the greatest collection of rat bastard villains ever. No
matter what
happens next week, I know for sure that Raylin will kill that
little prick Boon, one of the
few of them still alive; I very much look forward to it. We hope that Elstin Limehouse also meets his
maker, but don't think that will happen.
 2) In the meanwhile Mother Superior
and me have settled on BLACK LIST for dinnertime
watching. I've seen this around, but thinking it was another Hollywood
paean to
the Hollywood
10—which
treason Liberals are still trying to excuse—I
long ignored it. It's not. What NBC did was
take Silence of the Lambs
(with James Spader playing a Hannibal Lecter ("Reddington") against
Megan Boone's Clarice ("Elizabeth Keen") and mix it with White Collar. Spader's
character is a combination of
"Neal Caffrey" and "Mozzie." I'll give Blacklist 4 stars
for entertainment value and 3 stars for general fitness. Spader is
good. You could do worse.
3) We have
one episode left of the previously mentioned "The Affair."
Who knew that this was a 10 part series, and this is just season one?
We didn't. Teriffic acting; Ruth Wilson is a major talent; her
breakdown in episode 9 is 10 stars. But there is a problem.
Because the script and
acting are so good, we are drawn into it, and it's frankly exhausting
because I cannot
think of a single moment of levity so far.
Consequently, I want to take an anti-depressent after each
viewing.
Oh, did I say that all we have seen is only a backdrop to a murder
investigation, and that until episode 9 we don't even know who was
killed? Sheesh.
4) Finally,
there's Gran Hotel.
Since it's a Spanish production, and MoSup won't watch subtitled movies
(because she can't do her puzzles simultaneously), I've watched this
one alone. Gran Hotel (not to be confused with HOTEL, which
I've not watched) is a period piece; a poor man's Downton Abby that lacks
the production values and characters depth. For me it's "easy
listening." The plot has Spain's Matt Dillon look-alike wrangling
a
servant's position in the hotel to find out what happened to his missing
sister - well, here.
I give Gran Hotel 3
stars; but secretly I give it 4.5 stars for keeping me interested
without pissing me off about something. Yes, I have
developed a crush on Alicia Alarcon
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