So Red Riding Trilogy, a harder grimier UK Equivalent to Underbelly in 3 movie parts; 1974, 1980, 1983 came to a close last night. It was awesome, now I really NEED the set of books; Seems I was right that it is influenced by the James Ellroy definitive LA Quartet of noir crime novels that involved heavy research via Yorkshire Post (and styling seems very David Fincher S7ven to me) ; “In an era where detective fiction is increasingly measured by the depth of its research, Peace’s debut was spun almost entirely out of his own imagination, and rattled out in spartan prose influenced by LA Confidential and Black Dahlia writer James Ellroy. “I just asked my mum to go to Ossett library and photocopy old copies of the Yorkshire Post. I think I went to the library once,” he admits.” BB - If I ever visit Leeds/Yorkshire my perception will indeed be coloured a rusty Red Riding brown.

It was awesome 9/10. (1 mark off for lack of strong female developed characters and the ending to the last chapter being a bit clean) Cinematography + styling was unbelievably well shot. As The Scotsman says : “Like the first two, this last instalment (directed by Anand Tucker, who made the film Hilary And Jackie) also had its flaws: another unconvincing sexual relationship – the female characters have been weak ciphers throughout, which may be the nature of the original David Peace books – and some jarring camera effects representing Addy’s flashbacks. The violence was brutally explicit and the ‘message’, if there was one, was despairing.”

It shows how much further the much better this series Underbelly could go. Guardian sums Red Riding up thus : “Some of you found Red Riding wilfully opaque, but surely it showed that TV drama can be genuinely challenging. I didn’t mind its wild and bizarre pace, because it looked and felt so unique: a rough diamond in a window of much cheaper costume jewellery.” Both Red Riding and Underbelly make u think of the 70’s + 80’s - If 10% of what they say about the English + Aussie police was true…

As another Guardian piece says : “Many critics have acclaimed it as brilliant. Others find it self-consciously artful and confusing. Some find it vile. All these opinions can be held within a debate about Red Riding as art. A more troubling question arises when critics suggest that the films and books both illuminate and reproduce the essence of Yorkshire, perhaps even English, life in the 1970s and 80s: that this is how things were. The concerns here are not simply the usual carps that have always irritated fiction writers as the pedantry of trainspotters. Did people smoke as much in 1974 - and so little by 1980? Did senior police officers swear non-stop? Could it really be that the police would savagely beat up one of the Yorkshire Post’s reporters not once but twice? I don’t think so, but I respect the usual answer from novelists:

“Look, I am making it up.” The trouble with Peace’s series is the length it goes to suggest the opposite. Most fiction draws on reality, but Red Riding goes much further, to sponge off it. “I want to read fictions torn from facts that use those fictions to illuminate the truth,” Peace has said, a statement that is actually quite hard to unscramble and distil any sense from. Peace’s “truth”, however, works at a more sublime level than the details. Was there a Yorkshire Ripper? Yes. Was his first name Peter? Yes. Did he come from Heaton, Bradford, and wear a beard? Yes and yes again. This individual appears in the book and the film, which stresses its claim to realism by using newsreel footage from the time. But then the differences occur: the second name is Williams not Sutcliffe, and he confesses to 18 murders rather than 13. What this small tampering enables is difficult to know, but just possibly it’s the entire plot of this week’s episode, 1980, which hinged on the murder in Preston of a heavy-drinking young woman (in life Joan Harrison, known in the film as Clare Strachan) that remains one of the Ripper case’s unsolved puzzles. Sutcliffe was originally suspected but never admitted guilt. In Peace’s version, the police, up to their necks in pornography and corruption, murder Strachan because she knows too much. In Peace’s version, corruption rather than a sorry incompetence delay the Ripper’s arrest. It isn’t true.”

Also getting a spray is Julia Allison after sleep addled guaranteed to backfire attempt to elicit emotion video, or just sheer linklove from her better writing tumblr rebloggers : “Get a sleeping pill. Seriously. Lack of sleep always makes people feel their problems are much bigger than they are, and always prompts them to behave in ways that end up being embarrassing. We are simply people — Tumblr people, most of us — who don’t like the product you are selling, including the titty shots, the Blue Steel, the kissy faces, the invasions of other people’s privacy, the rampant narcissism. You can either retool the product or ignore the complaints. If I were you, I’d get a sleeping pill prescription and ignore the complaints because you don’t want to retool your product, you just want people to stop complaining about it.”

Non Vagabond Julia is hoping it all goes away : “So the decision I’ve made - subject to change, just like every other decision I’ve ever made - is to more or less put those people on mute.  I looked one last time at the site I referred to, because I was sent an email that the responses to my video would “hearten” me.  Well, they didn’t.  They were just as cruel as I’ve ever seen and - fuck, I’ll say it - evil.  They were EVIL.  If that’s how they react to me being as honest as I can be, then I’m done with them, as a group.”

Nice RWW post on who the important people interact with on Twitter : “In the charts below, assembled using developer Pete Warden’s service Mailana, you’ll see the top 5 people these geek heroes have reciprocal conversations with on Twitter and a screenshot of their larger web of connections. ”

And holytaco.com have nicely helped facebook with their re-redesign : “Facebook unveiled their new design last week, and guess what: it sucks. It seems like every time they tweak their design, they end up making it more confusing and lame. So, we looked into our crystal ball to see what Facebook will probably look like in a few years.” Or as Venturebeat say for the product manager explanation of what has gone on.

And holytaco.com have nicely helped facebook with their re-redesign : “Facebook unveiled their new design last week, and guess what: it sucks. It seems like every time they tweak their design, they end up making it more confusing and lame. So, we looked into our crystal ball to see what Facebook will probably look like in a few years.” Or as Venturebeat say for the product manager explanation of what has gone on.

So Tonite is Friday US Programming nite, namely Sarah Connor Chronicles Terminator then much twittered Dollhouse with the famous ep 6 when the lead actress said it gets good. Well We’ll C via AV_Club : “Now that “Man On The Street” has finally arrived, the all-the-eggs-in-one-basket strategy starts to make sense, but this was one incredibly strong hour of television. I’ll grant that I’ve been kinder to the show than others—and have more or less liked every episode but the third—but there have been enough sticking points each week to leave me worried about whether the show’s concept was fundamentally untenable or whether Whedon’s inimitable voice would finally emerge. Obviously, TV is a marathon, not a sprint, so one episode isn’t going to cure the rickets or end world hunger. But to me, “Man On The Street” represents that crucial moment when a show’s potential for greatness is realized, and while that doesn’t guarantee its health down the line—on the contrary, it could easily settle right back into its above-average groove—the possibilities are exciting, especially in the hands of a great showrunner like Whedon.”

Like CliqueClack I’ve getting into Terminator this season - It goes well watching with Dollhouse : “Well, a huge part of the season has been wrapped up. I really liked some parts of this episode, and was less satisfied with others. Overall, however I thought this (along with last week’s episode, as this was a continuation) was one of the strongest outings for this show. I’m hoping that it continues the high level of quality that we have seen the past few weeks.”

It’s no Skins tho. I heart that show bad. Naomi + Emily got their Love Ball after an episode of twin and Fitch (not Fit) family hijinks.

The ep this week had the totally different lookn the same twinsome Emily + Katie who we learn did number 2s together till they were 9.

PopSugar UK have the recap !

• Ronni Ancona was fab as the twins’ mostly disinterested mum, their dad has a huge ego and doesn’t listen. Emily comes out to her family at dinner, her mum’s face darkens, and her dad doesn’t listen.
• Katie and Emily have a huge fight where Katie accuses her sister of pretending to be a lesbian because she’s jealous of Katie’s popularity, Emily fights back about her being used by Freddie and they go to sleep not talking.

My Take : Katie teh hetero twin got rokd by Effy on mushies last week then lost her bf pictured Freddy to eff, who went off with Cookie this week. Y’know. And Panda got her dance on winning her beau Thomas back. Lucky her.

Oh and its great The Tudors is back. On with the beheadings.. The King has a new wife now, Jane Seymour, and he didnt cheat on her once in S3E1 premiere. Altho he was a bit mean when he mentioned his daughter. Jeez they didnt like having female daughters in this period; Sons great, daughters not so much. Joss Stone is in this series too according to BuzzSugar, kewl; as The Rehabbed King J Meyers says : “”(Anne of Cleves) is wife number four for three months. That’s two episodes, then I banish her to a house in the countryside, but I think she’ll be back for season four. The thing is, I’ve never met Joss’ character before I actually meet her. I’ve only ever seen a painting of her. So I go and I see her, and I don’t like her. Not because she’s not beautiful-she’s just too dramatic. Henry doesn’t like her.”"

There will be alot of war and treason against The Pilgrims I’m guessing. Now I have to go to gym after rest day yday. It’s 30c+ hot ere.

Oh and for the 12% female audience readership ere, via brilliant Jak and Jil the Paris Fashion Week shoe of the week; . See I dont just post chukkas + kicks;

“IT WAS QUITE CLEAR AFTER PARIS FASHION WEEK THAT THE SHOE OF THE SEASON HAD TO BE THE LOUIS VUITTON ‘SPICY’ SANDALS. LAST SEASON YOU COULDN’T ESCAPE THE YSL ‘TRIBS’ AND THIS SEASON YOU COULDN’T HELP BUT BE MARVELED WHEN THESE EXTRAVAGANT WONDERS TIP-TOED IN FRONT OF YOU.”