All Forms of Art

Supernatural was the first American show that I actually following and watched throughout. I discovered it one fateful night, amidst some zapping on Portuguese TV, on a channel that usually didn’t have anything interesting. I stopped for 10 seconds and I just couldn’t change the channel. Then, every week I stood in front of that TV for a whole new episode of monsters, mystery and plenty of weird stuff until the very last episode of the first season. I hated it! I remember it being mentioned as  the last episode  on the top right corner of the screen and I thought it would be the very last one, ever, and Dean was dead! The years went by and there was always a new season. Some were great, some good, and others not so much, including some “What the hell is this?” moments. I think, somewhere along the way the producers went too far, and nowadays I don’t watch the show anymore. I’m tired of it, I feel like it lacks more depth and makes less sense with each passing season.

After watching 3 seasons (and some episodes from the 4th one) of this show I’m not entirely sure what I can say about it. It’s a very good show, with very good actors (despite some recent developments) and an amazing plot… but I just can’t watch it anymore. It’s really good, so good that it genuinely gives you some violent instincts. I needed to stop watching it since I couldn’t handle it anymore. The characters are so evil and hypocritical that they quickly become disgusting, but it’s not a mad kind of evil that you could say is pure fiction. It’s something different, more genuine. The calculated evil and sociopathy that is fully credible. The incredible realism that you can spot here is both the best and the worst thing in the whole show. Maybe someday I’ll try to watch it again, but not right now. Sometimes, I started watching an episode and I stopped it in 10 minutes, otherwise, I would break the screen. Some episodes I was only able to watch in 5 or 6 attemp

A zombie movie! Yes, I love zombie movies even when they’re terrible. This one had a good premise, it was much about the humans and their own kind of evil, rather than the zombies. They were just the excuse the humans need (or don’t) to make stupid mistakes and do bad deeds. I must admit the movie wasn’t good, but it could’ve been. Well, at least a little bit better. I mean, we have a post-apocalyptic world with a zombie infestation, where everything is rebuilt and everyone is trying to find a way to live and achieve normality again and go back to their daily lives. It’s new, usually in this sort of stories things don’t come back to what they were, but here, I think they mean to show us that what truly happens is that mankind never learns. So instead of finishing off all zombie, they decided to make a beautiful place to go on vacation. The special attraction? Zombie killing! What could possibly go wrong, right? Well, beyond that, we have a protagonist with some traum

This is one those shows where we go “This is weird”. Not a bad kind of weird though!  It shows us a highly technological future with some disturbing tech and applications. Some of them are clearly an upgrade to things we already have, others are new, but we can spot where the author got their inspiration to think that stuff up. However, this show isn’t just about technology, it’s much deeper than that. What you’ll see on the screen is the technology being used in service of the darkest side of humanity. Sometimes, it looks like a good thing, with plenty of potential, but somewhere along the way, it will be transformed. Something you’ll learn is that there’s always a way of using it for the worst. The show can be seen as a warning sign, some kind of prediction of what may happen to us in the future. I didn’t see it that way. What I saw, was a purposely exaggerated image of what we’re already doing to ourselves. I choose the word exaggerated on purpose because s

A silly comedy that I’d totally recommend you watch. In this movie, scouts are, once again, heroes!  Meanwhile, you’ll be laughing, pretty hard at that. The kids are somewhat fun and the whole story is just there for you to laugh (even if you’re in a bad mood, you’ll at least crack a smile, trust me) and well, maybe learn a thing or two. I definitely had a lot of fun and a really good time watching this movie, so I think that if you are unsure about it, just give it a try. You won’t regret it.