BBC Show One Day is My Favorite TV Show of the Week

 

Here are my top 10 favorite shows that I watched this week -

#1BBC World - One Day in London 

I discovered an interesting feature show in BBC World entitled One Day and every week, they feature a city from all over the world.  This week, they featured London.  I miss London so much and everything the feature story said was true about the place - its multiculturalism, its pluralistic appeal in fashion and the arts, among other things.

#2 Jack - American Horror Story

I really have to watch this series weekly!  It's amazingly frightening, I love it!


#3 AXN -The Amazing Race

The 21st season of the Amazing Race just started and I'm already rooting for the Chippendales!

#4 Diva Universal - Hot in Cleveland 
  
Not all of Hot in Cleveland's episodes work, but the one where they had Susan Lucci, love that!

#5 Diva Universal - Suburgatory 

I was drawn to this show because I saw Alicia Silverstone, of Clueless fame, and she was pregnant - a surrogate!  That's where all the complications start.

#6 ABS-CBN - Storyline: Birth

I love this show by Patricia Evangelista.  It talks about ordinary people and their struggles.  This week, they featured two mothers, one is a teenager giving birth, while the other has one child with disabilities and a dead one!  Prepare your tissue paper!

#7 Diva Universal - Suburgatory

They showed two episodes back to back so I watched the next one. Jeremy Sisto here is hot hot hot!

#8  Diva Universal -Hot in Cleveland

In this episode, one of the sisters make out with David Gates but not the one from Bread!

#9 Crime Investigation -Evil Up Close: Motorway Rapist

I wasn't able to watch too many CI shows this week but I will make amends for that soon as I come back.

#10  Screen Red - Man of Vendetta

A terrifying horror story from Japan!  

Movie Review: The Quietly Poignant One Day

I liked 'An Education' - I even bought the DVD since the movie never got a wide release here in the Philippines. Well, you could see some semblance of how that movie was directed here in One Day - especially in the second half of the movie where everything begins to unravel very quickly.  In 'An Education', you can feel the tension that arises as soon as the lead character discovers a new and different world.  I haven't actually read the novel yet but I feel there are some things that have could have been spelled out well in the novel  but just couldn't be threshed out well on screen.  After the wonderful first few scenes, the movie kind a dragged a bit in the middle, before getting its footing again as it escalates quickly towards the tragic ending.

Performance-wise, both Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess do particularly well!  Even Patricia Clarkson, who is severely underutilized here - and whose story as the mother of Jim, is largely ignored in the movie.  There are some cute scenes, there are some that don't really work - and you could sense it from how the audience reacts to the couple.  Interestingly, I was wondering to myself, what if an actual British actress did this part - perhaps Keira Knightley - how would the chemistry have changed?  Anyhow, that's water under the bridge now.

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