Dr House and Patrick Jane (The Mentalist) are two of the best examples I can give for the new trend of having geniuses who are smugs. The character has a typical trait – a genius sociopath who has great insights into the human psyche and they use it to make everyone around them miserable. Sort [...]
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Rise of the narcissistic smugs
Posted in tv shows, tagged 30 rock, Bean, Black Adder, Californication, Fry, House, Jeeves, Laurie, Mentalist, Red Dwarf, Sherlock Holmes, Wooster on 2011-06-19 | 1 Comment »
30 Rock
Posted in tv shows, tagged 30 rock, Comedy show, Tina Fey on 2011-05-29 | Leave a Comment »
I despise Friends. 30 Rock has to be one of those rare breeds of American TV shows that are sensible, have a good sense of humour and don’t force feed me stupid and bland lines that they call “comedy”. Tina Fey – you are awesome. Now let me get this straight – don’t fk it [...]
Of Cricket, Doordarshan and adverts
Posted in opinions, rants, tv shows on 2011-01-23 | Leave a Comment »
First of all let me tell you that I watch cricket only occasionally to see what’s up with the players. I can equally get this information from the internet but I like to see how they behave on the field. Hence I rarely watch cricket nowadays. I love to play but don’t really give a [...]
Parallels between Spooks and Ghost in the Shell
Posted in Hobbies, tv shows on 2008-08-1 | Leave a Comment »
The more I watch the more similar I see the characters from these two series. Spooks.Harry is similar to GITS.Aramaki Spooks.Tom and Spooks.Adam are similar to GITS.Kusanagi You have a hacker on both the shows. You have a brilliant gadget guy in both the series. Both the series are about internal security teams. I am [...]
