Smile for the evening
Apr. 26th, 2014 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakBecause any combination of Catherine Tate and David Tennant is bound to make me smile with happiness which I want to share, and this includes her having to guess his character's name in the Harry Potter films:
The L.A. Times informes me that the last but one Elementary episode was indeed, as I had guessed, inspired by Philipp Seymour Hoffmann; the article is about than that, though, about how Elementary handles the drug recovery theme in general,
But long-term, consistent recovery is rare (...) because TV prefers the high drama of the addicted life. Sobriety, though personally challenging, is a cinematic bore. It's tough to win an Emmy by embodying serenity for an entire season. Even when dealing with recovery, writers go more for the big pivotal moments: The addict passing on sobriety's Splendid Life Lesson, the recovering alcoholic staring down a brimming shot glass.
"Elementary" has its share of pivotal moments, but they are invariably underplayed, woven into crime-solving story lines that allow the larger narrative to emerge with surprising power. It may be the best portrait of recovery on television.
(You can read the rest here.)
The L.A. Times informes me that the last but one Elementary episode was indeed, as I had guessed, inspired by Philipp Seymour Hoffmann; the article is about than that, though, about how Elementary handles the drug recovery theme in general,
But long-term, consistent recovery is rare (...) because TV prefers the high drama of the addicted life. Sobriety, though personally challenging, is a cinematic bore. It's tough to win an Emmy by embodying serenity for an entire season. Even when dealing with recovery, writers go more for the big pivotal moments: The addict passing on sobriety's Splendid Life Lesson, the recovering alcoholic staring down a brimming shot glass.
"Elementary" has its share of pivotal moments, but they are invariably underplayed, woven into crime-solving story lines that allow the larger narrative to emerge with surprising power. It may be the best portrait of recovery on television.
(You can read the rest here.)
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Date: 2014-04-27 04:30 am (UTC)The thing is that I wouldn't put it past Rowling to actually name a character that, lol.
I think that article is right about Elementary. Which I love.
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Date: 2014-04-27 04:54 am (UTC)