"TV Series I Am Addicted To" - 3 Reasons to Love "2 Broke Girls"

Like said by me many many times I have a huge addicttive personality for TV series that are freaking amazing. And "2 Broke Girls" is definitely one of them. And since it is in its third season right now, I figured it is time to give you three reasons why the show is freaking amazing!

The general story of the show is as follows: Martin Channing, a financee in New York, gets blow up in his illegal scam, where he screwed his rich customers and stole their money. Of course he goes to prison and his daughter, Caroline Channing, only gets to grab what she can and run from their town house, which of course, gets taken from them. Desperate for a place to stay and to find a job to make some money Caroline gets a job as a waitress in the "Williamsburg Diner". There she meets Max Black, an emotionally dead 20 something girl that makes cup cakes to get some extra money. From there on the show taes its ride and Max and Caroline move in together. Thing is: with Carloine's business expertise and Max's abilities in baking the cupcakes they plan on opening a cupcake shop and making their own business. And here come the three best reasons why the show is absolutely to love and amazing!

#1 - Cursing, Cursing and Cursing!

If the girls do not work their butts off at the diner, at a job they have found and/or taken on Craigslist or work on the cupcake business they ted to work out their problems. And especially Max is very good at cursing, mad references and tart tongued attacks at everyone that annoys her. (Especially Hipsters!) And hell yes I love the cursing part! What is not to love about it?

#2 - Cultural references en Mass

Actually "2 Broke Girls" could be a TV guide to everything, and that includes Bravo TV. I mean the ammount o Celebrity smashing downs, cameo appearances and constant hipster related dissing is the bomb! 

#3 - Chestnut, their HORSE!

The girls have a freaking word in their backyard! I mean a HORSE! Hello! That s freaking awesome and amazing, and believe me, it adds to the comedy of the series as hell!

So, guys, just move your asses along and check the series out! If you have not seen it yet you are missing out hard!

"TV Series I am addicted to!" - Äkta Människor - Real Humans

The nordic european countries are known for apparently five things: (1) crazy language no matter if Swedish, Danish or Finnish, (2) good furniture made out of wood, or furniture from IKEA, (3) cold icy weather or lots of rain, (4) wonderful for skiing and last, but most important for this post (5) good crime, detective, murder and drama stories. 

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Well crime and drama have always been a huge genre in human literature and performing arts. It seems as though Swedish people have mastered this. In most Swedish crime thrillers there is more murder then in Mexico City and the crimes I talk are not tax-crimes. I mean bloody murder!

The ability to make good TV has been proven by Swedish people all again now with the release of the science fiction drama series called "Äkta Människor" or for those of you who don't speak Swedish (Like me!) "Real Humans". At first the setting of "Real Humans" seems simple. The not so far future, probably in like 10 years, Sweden. Humanity has developed a technology that allows them to create robots that look like humans and act like them. Theses are called Hubots. Hubots basically are just like cars for humans, can work for them in factories, do dangerous jobs, take care of the elders and assist in offices. The thing with them is that there is, as always a downside. These robots are so human that they have caused quite some stir. Some love them, some hate their guts. Thing is that Hubots on the other hand are also abused. They are used as sex slaves and some are eve stolen and reprogrammed. Well, cars get stolen, so where is the line? 

We have the classical situation of the golem problem as the series exposition. We create a creature, which is just like we are, and someday we might loose control about it. The series jumps right into the field with introducing us to a group of Robots who have broken their programming, or  have been reprogrammed, and have, now it comes, free will. Question: Are Hubots feeling creatures? Do they have rights, ore are they really just machines? 

We have several story lines coming together here and there. At first we have the group of free Hubots, lead by a human called Leo. In the first episode one of the Hubots tells Leo that she loves him. This Hubot was hit by a car and can hardly move. Her name is Mimi. Mimi gets kidnapped and is sold to a Hubot reseller. She ends up in a nice family. This family provides the second story line. They rename Mimi Anita and have not bought her, but got her as an extra for the purchase of an elderly care Hubot for their grandfather. His Hubot, Odi, has been defect and needs to be replaced. The third big string evolves around Roger. Roger is a factory worker who is left by his girlfriend and her son, since he lost it and bet up their Hubot. Roger joins a political extremist group who wants Hubots to be forbidden, with arguments as that they steal workplaces and are not human at all. 

So you see we have many different approaches to the human robot situation. All together many questions about consciousness, rights, moral, ethics, religion and personhood are asked. The series has this unique bright and clinic style that is so "nordic" in my perception, and befits the series very well. The makers/creators have the ability that in the series a Hubot doing the shopping for his owner is  exciting and also are able to creep you with the most normal scenes. A great eye catcher, with deep meaning, amazing visuals, great concept and overall extremely good actors. Only remark on the side: Real Humans will probably not be a hit for the mainstream since it is not as attracting as other series. Check out the trailer below and buy that DVD box of season 1! I did so, and my expectations were more then fulfilled. 

"TV Series I am addicted to." - Pushing Daisies

I have started my new series from the category "I watch it, so should you!" "TV Series I am addicted to." some time ago. And at first I talked you in why I am so madly in love with "True Blood". But this time you will be introduced to "Pushing Daisies".

It has been some time since "Pushing Daisies" was on TV since it only has 2 seasons and just 22 episodes, which is pretty bad. And the worst is that nobody knew why they canceled the show since it's ratings were pretty good and the show since then has grown a huge fanbase. 

Basically the show is about the pie-maker Ned who has the special ability that if he touches something dead it come to life again. If he touches it again it dies, forever! Thing is that if he touches a living creature and let it stay alive for more than 1 minute something else, with no connection to the thing alive, dies. But: if the pie-maker touches it it still will die forever. Since Ned has this restaurant called "The Pie Hole"and had some financial trouble Ned decides to engage in a partnership with "Emerson Cod" a private investigator. They clear up murder cases by waking up the dead for a minute and asking who killed the victim and for other tips. very often the murderer is not the one alleged but they still find the real murder. What gives the series a special twist is that Ned has re-lived his youth love Charlotte, or as he calls her: "Chuck" They fall madly in love, but can't touch each other. Torpeding their relationship is o pie waitress form the "Pie Hole" is Olive Snook (Played by Kristin Chennowith) who is madly in Love with Ned as well. And giving the series an even more genius twist is that Chucks aunts, who raised her, start to befriends with the "Pie Hole" crew, ned accidentally killed Chuck's father, Chucks can not see her aunts, Emerson has a daughter he has ever seen and Olive does not know about the magic finger of the pie-maker. Sounds cray cray? Yes! But it is so good.

My favorite characters are Chucks aunts Lilly and Vivienne, the former "Darling Mermaids" who were synchronized swimmers, until Lilly has been blinded on one eye whilst cleaning the cat toilet.  You can see a picture of them here. The tone of  and campy, the show is very upbeat, the visuals are amazing, the movie allegories heavy, the story funny and smart and the murder cases morbid, funny and great!

"I watch it, so should you!" - TV Series i am addicted to!

Hey pop culture fans out there! Even though I do not really watch TV anymore since I don't have a TV at home, and I do not miss it, I watch tons of this stuff on YouTube since some users make all the work and upload stuff. My DVD collection is not that small either! So this is the first episode of the new series: "TV Series I am addicted to!"

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At first I would of course write about two of my all time favorite reality TV shows "Kathy Griffin - My life on the D-List" and "Joan and Melissa - Joan knows best!". But I have already written abut theses two series, so no need for double trouble on Icon Art Marilyn!

So witch what I am gonna start instead might be, okay crap aside, this is no big surprise for each and every one of you that I will write about "True Blood" which has been starting now newly for a sixth season. And I mean as soon as I have seen that the sixth season pass is now available online I bought that shit! So in celebration of the new sixth season I chose True Blood to be first on the list!

The series is generally a drama series, and believe me: there is tons of Drama going on! And they have added this supernatural thing to it. Generally this means two years before the series started scientists from Japan have discovered a way to create synthetic blood. As part of this the side effect is that the Vampires now come out of their coffins, since they do not longer rely on human blood. Okay and that is just season one. Over the following 5 seasons they add fairies, wear wolves, wear panther, shape shifters, minades, magicians and other crazy shit! And what comes out is the story of Bon Temps waitress Sookie Stackhouse who gets into all the madness by falling in love with vampire Bill Compton. To recap all of the story would be a huge article! So you just have to watch! But all I can give away is:

 In season one it is all about Bill and Sookie getting together, small fight about her with Fangtasia (A Vampire nightclub) owner Eric northman and his progeny Pamela Swynford. Also Bill has to create a progeny as a penalty for killing another vampire to save Sookie. Season 2 is all about the crazy minade Mary Ann which terrorizes Bon Temps and the search for Eric Northmans makes Godric. Season 3 is about the fight of the community against crazy vampire king Russel Edgington. Season 4 is fighting a witch named marnie that wants to destroy all vampires, and season 5 is all about the vampire authority. Okay this is so short cut that you have to read the short synopsis on Wikipedia.

So just as a quick shot: here are some of my favorites from True Blood:

Favorite character (famale):

Pamela Swynford de Beaufort

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Favorite character (male):

Eric Northman

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Favorite supernatural species:

Vampires

Favorite True Blood something:

True Blood (Drink) and the LGBT IQA references

I am so eager to see how episode two of season  comes out! So check out True Blood!