Televisual Musings

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So I finally finished Season 4 of Boardwalk Empire. The last TV show I watched before Boardwalk Empire was Rupaul's Drag Race, where I finished a season and its corresponding Untucked season in 2 days, and it consequently made me incredibly headache-y and sick and I had nightmares about being a contestant. Anyway, so I decided for Boardwalk Empire that I would pace myself and stop my horrible Binge-TV habit. So I watched about an episode a day, and I think that really helped with appreciating the show. Each episode is an hour long, so I felt like one episode was enough. I am really impressed by what HBO is doing at the moment, and Boardwalk Empire was just so phenomenal and the story and locations was so intertwined and complex and fantastic. So I have finished my first period drama. And what a good period too. I think I might read the book as well, seeing as its travelling/lounging by the beach/book reading season.

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So because I finished Boardwalk Empire, I started watching Girls. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. It is so amazing. I finished the whole season 1 in a sitting, then I started looking for season 2 episodes. OH MY GOD. I don't think I have ever watched a TV show in which I can actually, like ACTUALLY relate to the characters in a realistic and meaningful way. The way they deal with situations and people and struggling with finding out who they are, THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING. SO AWESOME. I thought I wouldn't like it for some strange reason, I think some boys told me it was stupid, BUT BOYS ARE STUPID, GIRLS RULE, AND THE SHOW 'GIRLS' RULES.

Girls is now my new favourite show that is still continuing, replacing Community because Community is starting to depress me. Actually Community is #3 and Parks and Rec is #2. Yes.

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In other news, if you're as big a fan of TV as I am and you live in Sydney, there is an art project that is commemorating the official shutdown of analog TV in Sydney, this coming Tuesday. One of the exhibitions is a performance art piece where 2 artists will watch EVERY EPISODE OF THE SIMPSONS whilst fasting. It will take them 8 days. I really want to go see it, or watch it online, because when I read the description I immediately thought 'i wanted to watch all the Simpsons episodes this holidays. Would it really have taken me 8 days? That's not a lot of time...' Is that crazy? Isn't it a lot of time? Maybe this performance art piece will change my mind. On the last day, when they end, they are having a tele_visuals breakfast, and I might go to that.

Link to the project: http://televisionsproject.org/

Link to the exhibition: http://televisionsproject.org/kate-blackmore-and-francis-barrett/

Finally, Ja'mie finishes tonight. I will probably rant about it tomorrow.

Until then, Adieu.