Comments on: Stoned and Confused

By: kyoseki

kyoseki — Sun, 06 May 2012 06:38:44 +0000

Just finished season 10, and nope, it doesn’t look like it’s the last season.

I’m not saying any more than that 🙂

By: kyoseki

kyoseki — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:01:28 +0000

I don’t know if season 10 is the last ever, the Wikipedia seems to suggest it ends on a cliffhanger, so that would suggest not.

Season 10 was only shown in the UK last year, so it’s not like we’re *that* far behind.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:40:17 +0000

Question: Is season 10 the last season ever?

Yes, I’ve seen Waking the dead. It is quite good. They don’t kill off the main characterless as much though!

By: speedwell

speedwell — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:07:42 +0000

And when my friend, who runs a medical marijuana dispensary in California, visits me again with a bagful of strawberry Kush and tries to get me to try it AGAIN (honestly… peer pressure, in our 40s?), I will point her at this article as the example of why I don’t have any intention of getting stoned on purpose, thank you.

By: ischemgeek

ischemgeek — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:43:24 +0000

I love Spooks (the UK name of it – I watched it on BBC Canada at first and then on netflix).

My favorite thing about it is that they’re downright fearless in how they write situation. They write what they need to get the effect they want, and do whatever’s necessary to get there: Main character’s gotta die? Okay. We need to kill a kid? Sure. We need to portray [a certain beloved character] who most people think of as a charming mentor as a manipulative asshole in a way that will probably change how everyone in the audience sees [the character]? Will do.

I’m sure if they tried that sort of writing elsewhere, you’d get a Hunger Games-level response from the public.

Also: Netflix has added season 10?! Damn. There goes any chance of me getting work done this weekend…

By: kyoseki

kyoseki — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:58:38 +0000

As a Brit, I’m a huge fan of MI-5 (who a CNN newscaster would probably call M-15 if this week is anything to go by, she certainly didn’t seem to be aware that MI-6 wasn’t pronounced “Emm Sixteen”) specifically because they’re NOT afraid to kill off principle characters … and also because you REALLY have to pay attention to what’s going on, unlike most American TV shows that seem to squeeze about 5 minutes of plot into an hour long show and then have recaps after every ad break in case you were distracted by a shiny object more than 30 seconds ago.

It was sort of like Game of Thrones as a TV show, that is, before Game of Thrones became a TV show.

Oh, incidentally, it looks like Netflix have FINALLY added the tenth season.

If you like MI-5, I’d also recommend “Waking the Dead”, which is sort of like a British version of CSI, ie. far less lab rats suspiciously waving guns around (seriously? The fuck is that about?) and you need to not only remember what happened before the last ad break, you might even need to remember what happened all the way back in the last episode.