You Had One Job: Constantine

I have been watching the Constantine series on NBC and for the most part it has been good. Then it got okay. Then I just watched the last few episodes and wondered exactly what the fuck happened. This show has been in an uphill battle from the start with the crappy time slot it had of Friday nights at 10pm. It has since moved earlier but still on Friday nights. Since it is on NBC I started watching knowing that chances are the it was going to be canceled mid-season or after the first. That's their style.

Even though there were some things to nitpick I liked the show at first. The fact that he couldn't smoke on the show but showing him shooting up heroin was fine. He can smoke now but its too often now. Its like when a kid is allowed to curse. Then there's the whole love angle that feels so shoehorned. This show has no need for that and watching it unfold just made me cringe. Last nights episode was a joke. It just sucked and felt like they were building up a spinoff series with The Spectre that is laughable considering they can barely keep their own show on the air. I'm getting ahead of myself.

Stuff You Should Have Watched In 2014

This was a surprisingly good year for television. I used to watch a ton of TV but over the years I got sick of shows either being canceled too soon, dragging on for too long, or being just like every other show on television. Seriously. I can only watch so many shows about a detective that has a special ability/is a raging asshole to everyone. I decided to write a little bit about some of the shows this year that got me super excited and had me dying to see the next episode like Game of Thrones of course though they fumbled about two episodes.

There were some shows I was very disappointed in like The Strain. They really fucked that show up with terrible acting, writing, and effects. I wanted that show to be so good. I started watching The Affair and three episodes in I hate everyone involved. I'll try but its hard. Okay. On to the good stuff!

I found out about this BBC/PBS show The Escape Artist months after it debuted from Cam. Its a BBC series so that means it only has three episodes which it turns out is a god thing. One hour episodes with so few episodes means that every single one has to be important. It stars David Tennant as a barrister that does his job defending people even when it is shady as hell. The first episode does a great job of establishing him as a a character and by the end I was like “Oh, no!” He defends a guy named Liam Foyle played by Toby Kobbell (who plays Doctor Doom in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie) and I will leave it at that. I so don't want to spoil this show for anyone that didn't see it. Every minute and detail of this show is important and all the acting is great. I strongly suggest you check this out...if you can find it. I watched it on Amazon.

"Bad Mamma Jamma": Tilda Swinton

This weeks Bad Mamma Jamma is a woman who in one second can seem super vulnerable and helpless and then the next be one of the scariest damned women you’ve ever seen in film. Tilda Swinton is this weeks BMJ! Born Katherine Mathilda Swinton in London, England she has been in tons of films and here in the U.S is known as Cate Blanchett. Come on! I cant be the only person to mix the two of them up! I hope she doesn’t see this because she could probably kick my ass even at the age of 52.

After college she started off in small theaters groups and foreign films before making it big here in films like The Beach, Vanilla Sky, and of course as the Ice Queen in the Chronicle’s Of Narnia films where she was super evil and scary. She beat up lion Jesus and wore his damned fur! How evil is that? Seriously. I need to know. I got a pair of scissors and the L.A Zoo is a bus ride away.