Breaking Bad

2011       TV-14     Season 4

Emmy winner Bryan Cranston stars as Walter White, a high school science teacher who learns that he has terminal lung cancer and teams with a former student to manufacture and sell high-quality crystal meth to secure his family's future. More here!

Breaking Bad is very popular and with very good reason. The story is just plain great. As much as I love the story I have to admit I can only take this show in bites sizes. A bit of en episode here, some there, and a little more over there. it is so dark and so much happens that is terrible, sad, disappointing, upsetting, horrible, and just plain bad. It really ruins my mood if I watch too much in too short a time.

This latest season, 4, was just as good as the previous ones. Jesse and Walt are cooking meth, trying to survive, and live their lives. The thing that stuck with me most this season was the change in Walt. Obviously he has been doing questionable things, doing illegal things, and has been changing. but, this season he really takes a sharp turn into darkness. 

I really can't say too much about the show because I will give something away. So much of the show is building off of little things. It is all stacked up.

netflix gave Breaking Bad 4.5 stars and I give 4.5 meth cooking fellas.

Wilfred

2011        NR      Season 1

Adapted from the Australian TV series, this unconventional comedy follows the surreal experiences of Ryan, a deeply depressed man who becomes convinced that his neighbor's dog Wilfred is actually a man wearing a costume. More at Netflix!

I am not even sure why I really picked this to watch but I did. I guess perhaps because I like Elijah Wood. He is super cute and I loved Lord of the Rings. The synopsis looked cute so I clicked play. I was just enchanted by this show right from beginning to end. The moment the show ended I said, "I liked it too much". I didn't want it to end. The character Ryan played by super cute Elijah Wood is so scared to live and tries to off himself. After it does not work he starts seeing his neighbors dog,Wilfred, as a fella in a dog suit.

Wilfred is just the funniest. I love his doggy logic that he explains and tries to apply it to Ryan. I also love all the fart talk. Wilfred being a dog is really into butts and farts. He is always sniffing butts and farts to find out about people. He can tell so much from so little. It is really funny. I also love how matter of fact he is about everything. He just lays it out there. Wilfred also has a large stuffed animal bear that he humps constantly and has a strained relationship with.

I can't wait for the 2nd season and will watch it as soon as it is up. Netflix gave Wilfred 4.4 stars and I give it 5 sloppy imaginary doggy kisses.

Grave Encounters

2011       NR     1hr 33m

In this horror flick, the stars of a paranormal-investigation TV show spend the night in a derelict psychiatric hospital, hoping to uncover what's been going bump in the night. As their cameras roll, they find themselves trapped -- and hunted.

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Netflix recommended this movie to me since I enjoyed movies like Behind the Mask and Tucker and Dale Vs Evil. I was in a mood for a spoof/making fun of movie last night so I fired this baby up. I really like to watch the ghost hunting shows because of how ridiculous those people are. I am a super skeptic when it comes to ghosts and the lot but I want to believe. I want there to be more and be things we don't know about. In all the shows I have watched I never seen anything that is unexplainable.

Anyway, It started out like most of those shows do. introduce you to the ghost hunting crew, show off the "haunted" place, and set up for a spooky night inside. I have to admit I actually got a couple shivers from this movie. It was not funny/spoofy, it was just a scary movie using the ghost hunting premise. It shows the footage that the crew shot. You follow them along their journey of having little strange things happening to all out ghosts killing people. I really enjoyed the ending but I feeling I had seen it somewhere before in another movie. 

Netflix thought I would like it 3.5 stars and I liked it 4 scary fake ghosts.