more watching

We are late adopters of Breaking Bad and we are now about half way through the second season, it's been reasonably fun. I would like some more indepth character development in a way but at this point I think there are some questions being set up about motivations and behaviour which, if answered with complexity and in acknowledgement of the subtle possibilities, should be quite something.

We have also watched a couple of Mike Leigh films - Hard Labour was unbelievably grim, a kitchen sink drama via Samuel Beckett, and Happy-Go-Lucky was really pretty good. Looking forward to his new film.

nuts in may

We watched it last night, it's on the Mike Leigh box set which you can borrow in bits from Moreland library. What a classic, I'm bothered I hadn't seen it before. Sheer brilliance. If I was 25 years younger I'd be quoting bits off it all the time.

(Later: I'm not as mature as I thought, and in fact I have found it irresistible for conversational referencing in the last two days. Particularly the line 'kiss Prudence?' though not having a cat toy, real pets have had to substitute.)