Thanks, YouTube.

Project Greenlight is a reality tv series that follows the making of a movie from script to production. I got hooked watching when it jumped from HBO to Bravo in 2005 for its third season. Basic premise: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon pluck a screenwriter and a director from amateur obscurity. They give them a minuscule budget to make a movie. Dysfunctional comedy ensues.

Feast, season three’s attempt at a horror/comedy hybrid, was just released direct-to-DVD. The comedy-horror thing is difficult to pull off intentionally. There’s plenty of movies that want to be Evil Dead, and almost all of them are terrible.

Feast is pretty terrible.

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I just finished watching The Wire’s season four finale — easily the best hour and half of television I have seen in a long time. There weren’t any of the big reveals or resolutions that have capped previous seasons. But I’ve become so invested in the characters, each story twist was intense.

HBO shows are all about character development. And with well over twenty characters, it’s amazing how well The Wire manages to tell so many stories. I feel like I know each of the characters personally. I’ve only felt that way reading a few books, never watching a television show.
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