Thursday 9 August 2007

Episodes 10 - 11

Hooray! The Second Season is on its way from the good people at Amazon. We're running out! The series continues to get better. The sensitive treatment of a black police officer's lesbian relationship providing a very eloquent rebuttal of accusations that this show is simply for white heterosexual men. (I know at least one Asian woman who adores this show). I'm not convinced it is better than The Shield or The Sopranos but it is definitely up there with them.

Sunday 5 August 2007

Episodes 3 - 9









Yes - we watched quite a few episodes of 'The Wire' on holiday and it gets better and better. Anyone - no matter what job they do - can relate to the 'chain of command' theme that runs through this season. The depiction of the Baltimore drug dealers is often sympathetic and occasionally poignant. Sympathy for some of the police officers arouses similar levels of sympathy in the depictions of their day to day frustrations. Nobody is portrayed as an angel but neither is anyone painted as a devil. It's all shades of grey.

Great holiday with some magical moments. One of the most memorable was cycling back from Fakenham with my stepson along a very dark country lane lit by a full harvest moon that looked like a celestial ball of cheese. I could see something in my peripheral vision looked up and saw beautiful barn owl who had been following us. As I looked he glanced over and banked away from us..