Veep’s back and GoT

Office Ahole encore but smarter version

Office Ahole encore but smarter version

EDIT: I saw this page of shows to watch (massive page of trailers, will crash your hoopdie internet) and the two I mentioned this morning are their top 2 🙂

 

I was a little late coming to Veep. -via @betzsteve  but I love it — and I don’t normally do serial comedies. -the last one I liked was Will and Grace, before that has to be Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and that was when it aired, before that would have to be The Beverly Hillbillies, in reruns. Also, you can’t leave out I Love Lucy. For me to keep coming back week after week, it’s not going to be a comedy!

earlier office ahole

earlier office ahole

I think that the second season was just beginning, so I had to blast through the first, which was easy to do! Of all the strange things for Brother to say, he complained about ‘the language.’ As in it’s too harsh/crass. He should be used to me but there you go.

I’ve read the A Song of Ice and Fire books, not that I recall details well. You’ll see this if you play QuizUp with me! They are far gorier and more violent (read: ‘better’) than Game of Thrones but I like GoT, too. I think it’s funny when I hear people talking about how violent it is. ‘Yeahhhh…you better avoid the books.’

I’m far more about Martin fecking finishing the books before he has a heart attack and dies. I saw where he has given the major plot points to HBO in case such a thing happens.

 

A Song of Ice and Fire, Deaths by Post-it

I’m always telling people who’ve only watched Game of Thrones — and squeal at the violence — that the books are far more gruesome.

every post-it marks a death

every post-it marks a death

These post-its only mark deaths, not rapes where faces are gnawed off by other people, etc. Sometimes books aren’t better. –that means you, Charlaine Harris  I’m not going to say GoT isn’t as good as the novels (because I love them both) but they are different.

Thralled to GoT

Anybody else watching? Anybody else actually read it?

Ugh!

This series (3) was pissing me off…til this week! I understand the books are insanely-long and have 5,327 characters (therefore could use a little off, from above the ears) but the first two epis were cack.

The third? You know why it was great? Actual dialogue from the novels. Story (pretty much) sticking to the novels.

Alright. I’ll geek up someplace else. (not really, there’s more geekery below) I had to get that off my chest!

(‘the fourth one?’)