Paul Attinello

Category: Television

  • Post-Pacific

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    Possibly the worst mistake of my post-Pacific years – since 2002, that is; since I have no longer lived in my beloved San Francisco, in Los Angeles, in Hong Kong, since I was kicked out of Australia – is inanely watching television. I used to watch television very little; since the collapse of my Aussie…

  • Madness

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    A day of catching up, cleaning up, getting things done… toward evening, rather than getting back to my research or writing (sorry about that), I read the beginning of Lydia Salvyre's The Lecture, and then saw – unexpectedly – the last episode of season one of the television show Dollhouse. The Lecture is funny, bizarre, ridiculous;…

  • Carnivale

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    Another amazing television show, which Bennett and Merrie told me to see: Carnivale. A shame it ran for only two years before cancellation (but no wonder, either, it was so expensive and elaborate). There's a great deal to say about it, of course – a Gnostic battle of good and evil, brilliant characterization and complex…

  • Hot / James & time / Dollhouse / Göteborg

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    It is actually almost hot out: in the low seventies (Fahrenheit – even after living in Centigrade countries for more than twelve years now, I just cannot think in Centigrade, in spite of its logic). In California, of course, it would be merely a normal day out of, say, eight months of the year in…

  • Inevitable

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    On TV, late: the episode of Sex and the City, fairly early on (season two), where Big threatens to move to Paris. Fights, unhappiness, chaos. Of course, having seen season six, with its lovely and surprisingly satisfying ending, we know that Carrie will finally end up with Big again – and we will even find…

  • Olympian

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    Having finally done some work today, I watched CSI – and it’s my favorite episode, ‘4×4’, an intricate puzzle of four overlapping segments that intersect in unexpected ways. Although the episode initially seems to run along the normal patterns for the show, the overlaps start amplifying the watcher’s awareness of the people involved, without them…