This week on Cleverman, Stephanie yells ‘Nobody needs this’ half a dozen times, Latani and Alinta are our faves, and there is no Deborah Mailman.
Liz: Three Renowned Indigenous Stage Actors out of Five
Steph: Four Renowned Indigenous Stage Actors out of Five
We’re not sure if we’ll be able to post reviews for eps 5+6 immediately after, as Steph is on a plane RIGHT NOW and we’re not sure of her viewing capabilities in Germany and Poland, so the next review might be a combined one later in July.
Housekeeping: Steph is in Germany next week, so posting is going to be light for a few weeks; this may include a delay on Cleverman posts depending on the iView sitch in Europe; you can follow us on Facebook!
We were doing this on Sundays, then we got distracted, but now it’s Thursday afternoon and I can’t get this stupid* song out of my head.
* It’s not stupid! It’s a fine piece of dark electronica that’s just begging to be used for a Doctor/Master vid**.
** I’d successfully deleted “The End of Time” from my memory until this song turned up, and you know? It’s almost worth it.
In exciting news, last week the AFL announced the eight teams who will make up the first Women’s AFL season. SO EXCITING.
(No Award is a Western Bulldogs blog when it comes to the women’s league.)
To celebrate, noted AFL misogynist Eddie McGuire made some misogynistic comments and trotted out his usual apology.
Continue reading “totally respected in our very respectful code”
This episode felt slower (its story was only over one day) but was no less difficult, Steph had to pause like three times on the way through.
Liz: Four out of five renowned Indigenous stage actors.
Steph: Three and a Half renowned Indigenous Stage Actors out of Five (Too much white person business)
Let’s just say that this week isn’t happy under the cut, but it is full of compassion and anger both
We’ve received feedback saying that it’s sometimes hard to tell whether or not we actually like some of the media we talk about. (In fairness, you can usually tell when we hate something.) So we’re entering a brave new world of giving media points out of five, although, David and Margaret style, Stephanie and I are giving individual points and reserve the right to disagree.
(We also reserve the right to wear fabulous earrings.)
ANYWAY, episode 2 of Cleverman: Jorah Mormont is building an ark, Waruu is a dickhead (but a hot one!), Naked Corpse Lady has clothes now, and there are more women.
Liz’s rating: Four Renowned Indigenous Stage Actors out of Five.
Stephanie’s rating: Four Renowned Indigenous Stage Actors out of Five
Previously on No Award: 53 important life lessons from Australian music of the ’90s
Look, the 90s weren’t all hypercolour and flower hats. We took some terrible things to heart in the 90s, too.
Continue reading “24 Terrible Life Lessons from Australian Music of the 90s”
It’s Friday, and that means … linkspam!
And also a scheduling change: thanks to a certain penguin cancelling her presentation at Continuum, Liz will be on the Fandom Drama and Journalism panel at 3 pm on Sunday. (That’s my birthday, so you have to be nice.)
Our own post on books we love to re-read has sent me diving into Austen. Again. Specifically David M. Shapard’s annotated editions, which are only US$9.99 on Kindle, and are full of fascinating facts and context and whatnot. I’m quite bummed that the annotated Mansfield Park (my favourite Austen novel, FIGHT ME) isn’t out until next year.
This re-read got me thinking about Austen’s troupe of terrible jerks. Each of her books presents its heroine with a Bad Romantic Option, but they’re all terrible in different ways, and to different degrees. But I think we can all agree that they deserve to be set on fire — the only question is, who do we burn first?
Continue reading “Setting Jane Austen’s cads, bounders and douchebags on fire”
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