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Bhav on TV: Teen Wolf Season 1

OK is just me or have MTV recently decided to make some pretty decent shows? I may be lambasted for saying this but I am RJ Berger fan. I am a Teen Wolf (TW) fan. I am on the way to becoming an Awkward fan. When I heard MTV was making a TW show I was thinking or hoping it would somewhat of a modern day rehash with a twist or two. Coming from the channel that brought us “Snookie”, I was expecting another sexed up teen show with crude jokes and no plot, essentially the American version of Skins with werewolves. What I got when I watched was a Taylor Lautner fan’s wet dream, all werewolves, no vampires. Saying I was a little disappointed was an understatement; the only similarities I could come up was the name, it’s based in a high school and he’s on the sports team. But I kept watching because it had 2 of the 3 things that usually draw me towards new shows. When it was being funny I actually laughed and it had a hot female lead (seriously check her out Crystal Reed).  So I kept up with it and I was actually surprised how it managed to keep me hooked week to week. It wasn’t just a soppy mushy love story, it wasn’t an afterschool special with a werewolf and it wasn’t an excuse to sell toys to kids. Though the numerous male topless scenes were getting a little old towards the end of the season (possible drinking game?). There was a thought out history and background and the characters weren’t just clichés or basic archetypes slotted in to move the story along. The creators had done their research like in one of the episodes, mountain ash kept a wolf at bay, a quick google search later explained that in Belgian folklore no house is safe unless under the shade of a mountain ash. And for you fight club fans there is a recipe for Molotov Cocktails in one of the episodes. After watching the entire series I can honestly say it was great story arc with some nice twists and turns, though I won't recommend it to everybody, I wouldn't discourage others from watching it either. It just leaves me wondering how they are going to top it with the next series without resorting to adding any new monsters (please please please no vampires!!!!) Bhav 4 of 5

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Muni on TV: Lead Balloon

Lead Balloon BBC 2 So it was the end of the fourth series and what a way it ended, let me just say that I’ve become a fan of Jack Dee whilst watching this show, and my god he has not disappointed this series. I didn’t really know what to think about what was going to happen to this series as it still had the regular cast, and I didn’t really know where the story would go. I think it has been a successful series with a great story throughout, the Robbie Coltrane  episodes were really good considering the second episode was just between two people and was still entertaining. Overall I’d say this has as usual been a wonderful show to watch and a definite show to catch on the iplayer. 8/10 Right so I was hoping to review The Sopranos this week as well but as it has been a busy week, I’ve been rushing to finish the 6^th and final season, but not done yet. I’m sorry about this and will get it reviewed for next week. Spending so much time watching The Sopranos I haven’t really been able to watching anything else. However I would say I caught the last 15 minutes of Dirty Sexy Things on E4, and from what I saw I would definitely be tuning in next week as well as catching up on 4OD. There is a show called The Hour that starts on BBC2 around the 17^th of July will let you know about the date next week, from the advert the show looked very unique and interesting and definitely will be watching that. Also, Teen Wolf started this week on TV and I didn’t even realise this was being made. Silly me! Again from the advert the show looks like a mix of Smallville with a bit of Kyle XY and One Tree Hill, a pretty unique mix, will try to review next week. Finally from what I believe the final episode of The Kennedys will be on BBC2 next week, so will review tat in a couple of weeks too. Follow me on Twitter: @munikazi

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Vampires Suck(2010) trailer

Check this out - the trailer for Vampires Suck, yet another 'spoof' film. Wow. I thought they gave up on these. To be honest, looks a little different, I even giggled a little. That's...never happened before... Kazed

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Twilight Review

If I'm going to be completely and utterly honest, I was excessively hesitant to watch this film, simply because, well, I didn't really have a reason. I saw it from a negative perspective, but within the first 20 minutes of the film I was hooked into it. So Twilight is about a girl, Bella Swan, who moves from the hot, scorching wasteland that is Arizona(No, I kid), and moves to a small town, Forks, close to Washington. She encounters a 'young' man by the name of Edward Cullen, who seems a little angry at the world, or maybe at his hairstyle. So they both fall in love, and she discovers that Edward is actually a Vampire who has been alive for quite a while. A while means a couple of hundred years or so. So Edward loves her alot, and seems to be incredibly insecure or something, because he can't seem to stand it when she's around other Males. Bella gets into trouble a couple of times, and Edward saves her. Granted, I haven't read the book(s) by Stephanie Meyer, but generally, when a book has been adapted for a script, the book is usually better. Of course, like I said, I haven't read it, so my opinion won't count for that element. There were several elements of this film that I really enjoyed, and still fresh in memory right now.  One, and the main one I though, was the film gave me an impression of an Indie film. Alot of it seemed so organic, and fresh- until they introduced the vampire. Once the establishment of Edward's 'powers' had become apparent, the interest curve had dropped, quite steeply. Not so much that I wasn't interested in the film, just enough so I wanted to almost 'block out' said scenes. I admired how there was a certain 'innocence', if you will, about the romance between the two, until they began smothering each other in her bedroom. It regained some of it back, to some degree, but it was refreshing, it wasn't a clichéd concept, just a number of elements within the film which were all too redundant(the bland, all-too-familiar clichés, a girl who enters a school and seems to be clumsy and inept at pretty much everything, the girl who falls with the alleged 'hottest guy in school')and I've seen far too many times alternated and adapted for different plots. I think another reason why I was drawn to this while watching was most probably the fact that it was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, Director of 'Lords of Dogtown', a film which will be reviewed in the near future, and quite possibly in my top 10 of all time. I did, however, feel that Stewart's acting wasn't as 'organic' as the film itself, and she seemed to struggle a slight bit at one particular scene, where she was lying in the hospital bed, I got a little confused when she was trying to emote her anger to Edward. Robert Pattinson seemed to be doing almost the same thing, and had a depressed teen thing happening, yet another cliché which wasn't at all required. All in all, it was an interesting film to watch, yes, it had it's downers and it's clichés, but which film doesn't? Good film, respectable acting, familiar plot lines with characters who screamed  cliché, Twilight sort of lived up to the extensive build-up. 7/10 Kazed