Once Upon a Time

Sundays at 8/7c on ABCIf you have been waiting for the perfect show to fall in love with this season, wait no more and click here http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/once-upon-a-time/episode-guide, to watch--if you have not done so already--Once Upon a Time first three episodes.Like my second new favorite show, Revenge (https://www.notreadyforgrannypanties.com/2011/10/revenge-at-hamptons.html), Once Upon a Time is about, you guessed it, revenge. But, while Revenge is an adaptation of Alexander Dumas’s The Count of Montecristo, Once Upon [...]

2018-10-30T09:53:55-04:00November 11th, 2011|4 Comments

Circle of Friends

Directed by Pat O'Connor Reviewed by Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban The generational gap has always existed, I suppose, but, because the world has changed in the last decades with unprecedented speed, the gap between the world I lived in as a teenager and the world my teenagers live in now has become wider and deeper than the Great Canyon. Watching the movie Circle of Friends last week confirmed this for me.Because I write for teenagers, I read [...]

2018-10-30T09:54:03-04:00October 21st, 2011|0 Comments

Revenge at the Hamptons

 Review by Carmen Ferreiro-EstebanI went to the Hamptons this week. Twice.The first time was on Tuesday, for a week-end gateway to celebrate Sarah Michelle Gellar's birthday in Ringer (https://www.notreadyforgrannypanties.com/2011/09/lying-game-ringer.html). The celebration included a private party on the beach with a table for four catered by the best restaurateur in NYC. The food was delicious, Sarah Michelle Gellar's character told us, but we didn't see much of it because the show kept sending us back memory [...]

2018-10-30T09:54:14-04:00October 7th, 2011|0 Comments

The Lying Game / The Ringer

 Reviews by Carmen Ferreiro-EstebanThe concept of twins impersonating one another, so very popular in soap operas, has been around for a long, long time, as far back as the classics it seems, and this season it returns to prime time TV on two new shows: The Lying Game (ABC Fam, Mondays at 8/7c) and Ringer (CW57, Tuesdays 9/8c).I started watching The Lying Game some weeks back and got hooked. It's a light fantasy [...]

2018-10-30T09:54:28-04:00September 16th, 2011|1 Comment

The Guard

 directed by John Michael McDonaghreviewed by Carmen Ferreiro-EstebanThe guard of the title is Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) of the Galway Garda in Western Ireland. Garda means policeman in Irish, so the movie should, actually, be called The Cop, and, in a way, The Guard is a cop movie. But one you have not seen before.The story starts with Sergeant Boyle getting to the scene of a car crash and helping himself to [...]

2018-10-30T09:54:31-04:00September 9th, 2011|3 Comments

The Hour

Created and written by Abi Morgan Reviewed by Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban In the desert landscape of end of summer TV, The Hour, a six hours miniseries running on BBC America Wednesdays at 10 PM, is a rarely good find. The Hour takes place in 1956 London and follows two journalists friends, Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw) and Bel Rowley (Romola Garai) who, fighting the stiff suits that ran the BBC at the time, try to [...]

2018-10-30T09:54:34-04:00September 2nd, 2011|0 Comments

The Trip

directed by Michael Winterbottom reviewed by Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban Warning: Don't watch on an empty stomach Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, two British comic actors in real life, go on a trip together to cover Steve's assignment as a food critic for the Observer. The restaurants they visit, housed at posh boutique hotels, were chosen by Steve's girlfriend, Mischa, who was supposed to go with him. But Mischa has moved to the States and [...]

2018-10-30T09:54:39-04:00August 26th, 2011|2 Comments
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