Boyd and The Team
It is a blogging tradition that when anyone writes about Waking The Dead, one should also include comments about Boyd’s shouting. I have put my reference in the title just to get it out of the way and shall endeavour to not mention it again. Trevor Eve who, even to a person of my years, is now more commonly known for his Detective Superintendant Boyd than he is for his immortal Eddie Shoestring, is quite
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Michelle Forbes In Happy Ending
Series six of Waking The Dead concluded with a powerful story linking back to 1945 and the end of World War II. Fleeing Germany after it was clear that the war was lost, a family of Germans (the parents of which had worked with Josef Mengele), crash landed their plane in Britain whilst en route to Ireland, killed a Polish immigrant family, adopted their identities and lived a lie for 60 years. It was a complex and harrowing tale. The flashback’s to the concentration camps of
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Another Girl, Another Body
If there is one thing about the flashback sequences in Waking The Dead, it’s that they’re pretty weird at the best of times with their jarring, out-of-focus camera movements and intense music. When you add to the mix the taking of hallucinogenic drugs as shown in the latest two-parter, “Double Bind“ then you know that the weirdness will be off the scale. The story revolved around an escaped psychiatric patient with a series of murders linked to his past that was being
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Miserable Old Bugger - Brilliant! Read the rest of this entry »
Sky+ is a great invention that I’m sure was developed by someone who was watching Waking The Dead. Whenever the Other Viewer and I sit down to watch Boyd and his chums try and solve the crime by sticking photos and writing in crayon on a glass notice board, there is a constant need to pause the show and try and figure out who’s who, rewind a little bit to hear what was said, and then pause again to go and
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Kevin Pietersen quits as England captain. Madness!!! http://tinyurl.com/96v2yv
Kevin is wondering what the hell is happening at the ECB.
It was looking bleak at half-time 0-1 but 20 minutes later we're 4-1 up. Funny old game.
I've finally spent some money in the sales... Recession, what recession?
Kevin has undecked the halls.
Matt Smith is Who. Matt Smith is Who ..... erm... Who is Matt Smith? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1741002/
I'm more excited than a 38 year-old should be about the announcement of the new Doctor Who tomorrow, BBC1, 5:35pm. Be there. Or be elsewhere
Starbucks again... Their cinnamon swirl is a culinary marvel.
Wondering how to spend the final hours of 2008
In Starbucks... recovering. Have just seen Easter eggs on sale
Kevin starting to get things done.
