Daily Archives: November 22, 2006

The Season So Far, IMHO.

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Double/cross posted to the TV blog as well….

Favorites
Friday Night Lights. Love the stories, love the acting. And football is really just the backdrop. Completely obsessed with this show. Am completely torn between marrying Matt Saracen and just having a drunken crazy sex fling with Tim Riggins.
Grey’s Anatomy. Has not missed a beat. Every episode gives me something to hang on to. Bailey is rocking out even moreso this year. Carolyn is happy.
Standoff. “VM for adults.” Haven’t erased a single one off the DVR. Like the filler characters a lot as well.
Bones. A forensic procedural with more humor, more chemistry, and more goofy than the others. “CSI for happ(ier) people.”

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Big Screen: Come Early Morning.

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Written & directed by Joey Lauren Adams, “Amy” of “Chasing Amy”. Starring Ashley Judd, who was really wonderful here.

It’s a small film. A “coming into one’s own” film (rather than “coming of age”). A film about, really, just one moment / one turning point. Realizing that you have to make your own choices. That you can’t rely on old crutches, or blame other people and the past they’ve saddled you with for the decisions you’re making today.

A small, quiet movie. But moving. Well directed, well acted. Well worth the admission.

Well worth the drive to Highland Park, somewhere neither of us had ever been, to go to this last night as it was only playing at 4:10 in the city. Somehow we made it before the previews were even over despite getting lost in suburbia.