Posts Tagged dramedy

Blackpool

- Oh and ehmm, Mr. Holden, just one question and I’ll be gone. – What you want to know? – What’s an A. W. P? – Amusement With Prizes, like that machine you’re just been playing. Ripley Holden dreams of a big amusement arcade, a hotel and earning big time money. However he has a [...]

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Glee

- You leaked the set list, and you are not going to get away with it! – That is a libellous accusation, and I insist you retract it immediately! You have no proof. – No proof?! You are the only person who had the list! – But other than that, you have no proof. The [...]

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Castle

Lanie: Getting a drink with me after work instead of getting your freak on with writer boy? Beckett: Yeah, well, he is annoying, self-centered, egotistical, and completely… Lanie: Fun. And take it from me, girlfriend, you need some fun. I mean, how bad can he be? Beckett (answers phone):  Beckett. Castle: Guess who’s got a [...]

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The Unusuals

- Maybe you should sit down first… – No, no, I don’t want to sit down, just tell me. – Yeah? – Yeah! – Ok, you’re dead. – That’s not funny. – No, no, I’m not kidding, you’re legally dead… Casey Shraeger is new to the homicide unit and finds herself in a unusual group [...]

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Misfits

- What if we’ve meant to be something like…superheroes? – Superheroes? No offence but in what kind of fucked up world would that be allowed to happen? – I did not sign up for that! A group of young offenders are getting started with the community service. The bunch isn’t exactly motivated nor do they [...]

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Jane Hall

- You told me… – I didn’t tell you anything. You assumed. And…eh… And I know it sounds mad, it what I want, at the moment. – You’re a bus driver?! – Yeah Jane Hall is clumsy, uncertain, a little shy and often fantasies about her life. One day her parents throw her out. So Jane moves [...]

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Being Human

Annie is talking exited with the pizza-delivery-boy who just brought her pizza, but the pizza-guy doesn’t share Annies enthusiasm for small-talk. After the chat Annie closes the door and returns to her flat, which is covered with cups of tea and coffee. Annie is relieved that finally ordinary people can see her… George has a [...]

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Dead Like Me: Life After Death

So finally the Dead Like Me Movie (IMDb) is here, five years after the cancellation of the TV-series (Wikipedia, IMDb).  Serenity or The Simpson Movie are a great example of well done TV-series based movie. So does the Dead Like Me movie rock or suck? Short answer: It doesn’t rock =( The good: Well, its [...]

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Skins (Season 1-2)

Skins (IMDb, Wikipedia) is a British teen dramedy television-series. It revolves around a group of young teenager and their lives, troubles and friendship. The stereotypical looser Sid, egoistic and manipulative Tony, the Muslim Anwar, the responsible-acting Jal, drug-abusing Chris, fancy Michelle, gay Maxxie, street-smart Effy, stalker Sketch and  anorexic, suicidal Cassie whoss according to herself [...]

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Riget I & II (The Kingdom)

Lars von Triers (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark) Riget (Wikipedia, IMDb Riget I, IMDb Riget II) is a wild mix of mystery, hospital-drama, comedy and horror elements. The show follows the staff and patients of the “Kingdom”-hospital in Copenhagen. Strange phenomena occur and supernatural things take over the hospital. The rational doctors don’t believe in [...]

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