Category Archives: Television stuff

Stranger than Fiction

By terje | Published: March 30, 2009
Watched Stranger than Fiction again tonight, and I was happy to discover that it was as good on the second viewing and in company as it was on the first and alone. The plot is a bit hard to describe without ruining it all, as discovering what the hell is going on is one of the [...]
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A TV Dante

By terje | Published: September 24, 2008
My sister is one of the most important students at NTNU’s Department of Nordistics (or whatever) and Literature, primarily through her role as founder of the departemental body responsible for arranging events related to the relevant field of study (primarily Nordic linguistics and literature, as well as literature in general). Yesterday, she had arrange a [...]
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I still don’t quite believe my own eyes…

By terje | Published: August 29, 2008
Because of the extensive coverage of the American presidential election in the last couple of weeks, I’ve suddenly found myself wanting to see the complete West Wing series — of which I’ve seen the occasional season, but never the whole shebang. Subsequently, I go to Amazon.co.uk, search for “west wing”, and get this as one [...]
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A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!

By terje | Published: May 24, 2008
In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about! One of the things you might not know [...]
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Angelic Revelation

By terje | Published: April 12, 2008
One of the reasons why I haven’t been much active online lately, is that I spend most of my evenings watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with one or more of my flatmates. We started about a year ago, when one of them asked me to show him a really fun Buffy episode. I chose “Hush”, [...]
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Doctor Who, “season 2″ (Tennant’s first)

By terje | Published: January 24, 2008
So. How long did that take me? Seven months, you say? Man, I’m slow. I guess I ought to write a kind of review of this, but the truth is, I don’t dare. It’s simply been too long since I watched the first four or five episodes, so I’ll limit myself to mentioning a few of [...]
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Oh. My. Fucking. Gods.

By terje | Published: January 4, 2008
I just found out that there exists a British television show from 1990 where Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry plays the parts of P.G. Wodehouse’s Wooster and Jeeves. Naturally, all my viewing plans and schedules have been postponed until I’ve downloaded and watched all four seasons. Not that that means much — I’ve hardly watched any [...]
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Wee!

By terje | Published: December 11, 2007
I just found out that episode 11 of Heroes’s season 2 wasn’t the only episode to pass me by; I also missed episode 10!
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Veronica Mars, season 3 ep. 9…

By terje | Published: December 5, 2007
Spoilers inside.
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Valentine

By terje | Published: November 28, 2007
Heh, one of my flatmates and I just spent the last couple of hours taking cheap shots at Valentine, a rather silly slasher movie from 2001. A bunch of snotty girls have picked on a nerd all through elementary school, until they in 9th grade get the kid sent away to a mental institution by claiming [...]
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