Talkie Tuesday: Persuasion (2007)

 

"I have loved none but you."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Terribly sorry about last week, but life just got in the way of practically EVERYTHING else, and I couldn't find either the time or the energy to write up any blog posts.

 

BUT.

 

I'm making up for that this week with a rather lovely choice, if I do say so myself, because I'm starting to realize I have different preferences regarding Jane Austen than I did while still in the throes of growing up, so to speak.

 

Don't get me wrong, Pride and Prejudice will ALWAYS be her best work, but her other novels deserve the same sort of respect, too.

 

Especially and most particularly the one I chose for tonight's blog, or its adaptation at least.

 

Bonnets out, everyone. Enter Persuasion, the 2007 version, stage right.

 

Tuesday Thoughts: The Gilded Age

 

"Persistence is the key to everything. Persistence - and patience." 

Hello everyone!

I have a slightly shorter blog post for you all today, and I hope you'll forgive me for it, but I did try and at least combine a few of my thoughts on the matter within it.

You see, a few show seasons ago HBO launched it's new period drama that I would have checked out for the era alone, but they billed one of the best names in the industry under its star power: Christine Baranski.

And if you know Baranski, you KNOW she never picks a bad role!

Nor did she do so in this one, where she serves us a weekly dose of realism and sarcasm tightly laced into a corset with eyebrows that could challenge Elrond.

I love it.

So if you want to take a quick look at glitz, glamour and a whole lot of humour along with the drama, look no further: we're talking The Gilded Age tonight.

Talkie Tuesday: Downton Abbey (season 1)

"I am a caretaker, not an owner."

Hello everyone!

Alright, so. Once again, this Tuesday blog is going to be a bit different, as it will not, in fact, be about a movie of any kind. And there really is a perfectly simple explanation for that. 

That is, more or less.

See for a time now, one of my best friends has been badgering me (gently, of course) to start watching Downton Abbey. The thing was, with all the regular shows in season, and everything else I generally watch in between, I just never found the time. More accurately, I never made it, really.

Then a few weeks back, I finally decided to bite the bullet, for one thing because I hate not being able to deliver, and for another because I had been told, in no uncertain terms, that Dan Stevens is pretty wonderful in this show.

Dan Stevens? THE Dan Stevens, aka the Beast?

Scuse me while I find the popcorn and get my groove on.

Ahem. So, finally capitulating, I managed to run through the first season of the show since then, and boy, am I thankful for the constant persuasion!