So I´ll be able to end the wonderful year of 2012 (it has been great in my personal life) I am going to compliment the actors on my favourite TV shows.
They all great actors and clearly dedicated to their craft and what they do. They make the TV shows enjoyable and thoughtful to watch and have a high standard which is good.
They keep their personal life seperate from their private life. I have not once found an article in a gossip magazine (which I flick through occasionally I admit) or in the local newspaper gossip section that mentions any of their names or their latest scandal or has a demenaing photo of them. It´s refreshing to see Hollywood/American actors that are not obsessed with being famous and/or being in the tabloids.
And that is something I greatly respect them for.
Happy New Year!
Monday, December 31, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Racial Diversity on TV - TV Equals and my thoughts
I recebtly discovered that TV equals (a good website) posted a great article abut racial diversity where they compared various TV shows on various networks and how they represented racial minorities. It was very interesting to read through the article and it´s very informative.
Click here to go to the article
I´ve already done something like this on my blog but I only looked at my favourite crime TV shows.
I was impressed to see that Castle scored an A grade because the have characters representing two minorities, African-American and Hispanic with three characters. And the officer running precinct number 12 is an African-American female! Now that is in my opinion a very good choice, seeing that most high ranking police offers on Crime shows today are Caucasian males. And the actress is also awesome.
I was not surprised with NCIS:LA scored a C. LL Cool J is the only African-American person (a person of racial minority) on the show. The rest are all Caucasian. But they regularly have people of minorities appear as minor characters and diplay racial diversity through their choice of extras and guest actors.
NCIS scored a B as they have an African-American and a Hispanic actrees (whom plays a Jew oddly enough). They like NCIS:LA display racial diversity through their choice of extras and guest actors. And they are the only series on American TV (I know of) that has a Jewish character which is odd, seeing how many American are of Jewish descent/are Jewish.
Criminal Minds scored a C as well and like NCIS:LA they only have one character of racial minority, in their case Derek Morgan as African-American (in fact biracial). And they don´t expres that much racial diversity in their choices of extras in my opinion. And what´s up with having Morgan only interrogate Af-Am suspects, not the rest of the characters? But Criminal Minds has touched upon racial profiling several times which is an important subject.
I am interested in seeing how racial diversity and different ethnicites are portrayed on TV show. It´s a messy business but interesting to observe.
Click here to go to the article
I´ve already done something like this on my blog but I only looked at my favourite crime TV shows.
I was impressed to see that Castle scored an A grade because the have characters representing two minorities, African-American and Hispanic with three characters. And the officer running precinct number 12 is an African-American female! Now that is in my opinion a very good choice, seeing that most high ranking police offers on Crime shows today are Caucasian males. And the actress is also awesome.
I was not surprised with NCIS:LA scored a C. LL Cool J is the only African-American person (a person of racial minority) on the show. The rest are all Caucasian. But they regularly have people of minorities appear as minor characters and diplay racial diversity through their choice of extras and guest actors.
NCIS scored a B as they have an African-American and a Hispanic actrees (whom plays a Jew oddly enough). They like NCIS:LA display racial diversity through their choice of extras and guest actors. And they are the only series on American TV (I know of) that has a Jewish character which is odd, seeing how many American are of Jewish descent/are Jewish.
Criminal Minds scored a C as well and like NCIS:LA they only have one character of racial minority, in their case Derek Morgan as African-American (in fact biracial). And they don´t expres that much racial diversity in their choices of extras in my opinion. And what´s up with having Morgan only interrogate Af-Am suspects, not the rest of the characters? But Criminal Minds has touched upon racial profiling several times which is an important subject.
I am interested in seeing how racial diversity and different ethnicites are portrayed on TV show. It´s a messy business but interesting to observe.
Actors of "international origin" on TV shows
As a Scandinavian that speaks 5 languages, there of 3 fluently and happens to have an obsessive interest in foreign languages I am always happy to discover American actors that speak more languages than English and are of foreign origin. And I am very partial (jokingly) towards actors that are of Scandinavian origin.
And to my endless delight, many actors on my favourite TV shows are of international origin.
Eric Christin Olsen is of Norwegian origin
Kristen Vangsness is alo of Norwegian origin
Daniela Ruah is Portuguese (and apparently a huge star in her own home country!)
Cote de Pablo is from Chile
Stana Katic is of Serbian origin
It´s always nice to hear Cote de Pablo speak Spanish. Considering how many Americans managed to butcher Spanish pronounciation it´s a delight to hear it spoken correctly and fluently. Not to mention what an incredible actress Cote is.
Eric´s character Deeks has mention regularly that he´s Norwegian-American and I´ve read interviews with the actor where he describes himself as 100% Norwegian so I am guessing he considers himself Norwegian.
Kristen Vangsness is just an awesome actress!
Stana Katic speaks Serbian and has a great name. Funnily enough, any person from my country pronounces her name right on first read (stah-na with a as in cat) but the actress has mentin in interviews that a lot of the time people call her stay-na. It´s great to have an actress with an unusual name. Not to mention that apparently she speak several languages.
Daniela Ruah is Portuguese and a very popular actress in her home country. I laughed out loud when I watched an interview with Barret Foa when he visited her in Lisbon and he was completely surprised that she was a huge star in her home country. And it´s great to hear her prattle away in Portuguese, surprising American interviewers. And to boot she speaks French well,with the correct accent and everything.
I like all the actors on my favourite TV shows but let´s face it, Norwegians on American TV are always awesome ;)
And to my endless delight, many actors on my favourite TV shows are of international origin.
Eric Christin Olsen is of Norwegian origin
Kristen Vangsness is alo of Norwegian origin
Daniela Ruah is Portuguese (and apparently a huge star in her own home country!)
Cote de Pablo is from Chile
Stana Katic is of Serbian origin
It´s always nice to hear Cote de Pablo speak Spanish. Considering how many Americans managed to butcher Spanish pronounciation it´s a delight to hear it spoken correctly and fluently. Not to mention what an incredible actress Cote is.
Eric´s character Deeks has mention regularly that he´s Norwegian-American and I´ve read interviews with the actor where he describes himself as 100% Norwegian so I am guessing he considers himself Norwegian.
Kristen Vangsness is just an awesome actress!
Stana Katic speaks Serbian and has a great name. Funnily enough, any person from my country pronounces her name right on first read (stah-na with a as in cat) but the actress has mentin in interviews that a lot of the time people call her stay-na. It´s great to have an actress with an unusual name. Not to mention that apparently she speak several languages.
Daniela Ruah is Portuguese and a very popular actress in her home country. I laughed out loud when I watched an interview with Barret Foa when he visited her in Lisbon and he was completely surprised that she was a huge star in her home country. And it´s great to hear her prattle away in Portuguese, surprising American interviewers. And to boot she speaks French well,with the correct accent and everything.
I like all the actors on my favourite TV shows but let´s face it, Norwegians on American TV are always awesome ;)
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Numb3rs
As I have seen every single episode of NCIS, NCIS:LA and Castle mulitple times I don´t watch old episodes of those series very much but rather the new one´s with excitement. And now that exam season is upon me at University I had to find a series to watch that would be entertaining, intelligent, I had not seen before and would help me rest my brain from all the studying. And the series I ended up choosing was Numb3rs.
I know that is kind of strange since Numb3rs was cancelled two years ago and I don´t get the feeling that a lot of people watch it anymore. But the series looked interesting and fun, I had seen some episodes before that I liked and I thought the characters were likeable and realistic. And I have not been disapointed in this series. I have infact enjoyed watching it very much. It´s not the best series I have seen but it´s very high quality and has a lot of things about it I appreciate. And in some respects it´s even better than my current favourite series. And here´s why
-There is a great emphasism on family. You meet the Eppes brothers and their dad and you watch their relationship and interaction and how they grow and develope. They are not perfect and there are troubles that come up regularly. In fact they behave like a normal family and this is a component of the show I particularly enjoy.
-All the women in the show as portrayed as intelligent, strong and successful in their careers. There is no sexualisation or degrading portrayance of women. Their looks are not important and it´s their personalities that matter, They are good characters on their own and are very strong. It´s such a relief to watch a series that manages to portrayes women in such a positive and empowering and yet realistic light. I am very happy with the characters of Megan Reeves and Amita.
-The relationship between men and women and coworkers is so well portrayed, both nuanced and realistic and I gratly appreciate that.
-The characters are all realistic and nuanced. They are highly skilled at their job but they are portrayed as hman with their positive and negative traits that both empower them and prove a hindrance in their job. No one is perfect and here is obvious care in developing and portraying realistic round characters.
-The math component is brilliant. I am certaintely no math geek but I love the quality that math brings to the show. It makes it more intelligent and the math is explained (most of the time) in a simple and intriguing way. I know that the way with which they use math in the episode is not the most realistic but it´s so cool to watch. I personally love discovering those math theories and how they work in the show.
-The storylines are always interesting and well executed. There is ample respect towards various things and great care in delivering a good and thoughtful hour of entertainment.
In some ways it´s a great pity that Numb3rs was cancelled as it really is a brilliant show but the good thing is also that because it was only 6 season, the episodes were high quality and enjoyable to the end. And I am now a proud Numb3rs fan.
I know that is kind of strange since Numb3rs was cancelled two years ago and I don´t get the feeling that a lot of people watch it anymore. But the series looked interesting and fun, I had seen some episodes before that I liked and I thought the characters were likeable and realistic. And I have not been disapointed in this series. I have infact enjoyed watching it very much. It´s not the best series I have seen but it´s very high quality and has a lot of things about it I appreciate. And in some respects it´s even better than my current favourite series. And here´s why
-There is a great emphasism on family. You meet the Eppes brothers and their dad and you watch their relationship and interaction and how they grow and develope. They are not perfect and there are troubles that come up regularly. In fact they behave like a normal family and this is a component of the show I particularly enjoy.
-All the women in the show as portrayed as intelligent, strong and successful in their careers. There is no sexualisation or degrading portrayance of women. Their looks are not important and it´s their personalities that matter, They are good characters on their own and are very strong. It´s such a relief to watch a series that manages to portrayes women in such a positive and empowering and yet realistic light. I am very happy with the characters of Megan Reeves and Amita.
-The relationship between men and women and coworkers is so well portrayed, both nuanced and realistic and I gratly appreciate that.
-The characters are all realistic and nuanced. They are highly skilled at their job but they are portrayed as hman with their positive and negative traits that both empower them and prove a hindrance in their job. No one is perfect and here is obvious care in developing and portraying realistic round characters.
-The math component is brilliant. I am certaintely no math geek but I love the quality that math brings to the show. It makes it more intelligent and the math is explained (most of the time) in a simple and intriguing way. I know that the way with which they use math in the episode is not the most realistic but it´s so cool to watch. I personally love discovering those math theories and how they work in the show.
-The storylines are always interesting and well executed. There is ample respect towards various things and great care in delivering a good and thoughtful hour of entertainment.
In some ways it´s a great pity that Numb3rs was cancelled as it really is a brilliant show but the good thing is also that because it was only 6 season, the episodes were high quality and enjoyable to the end. And I am now a proud Numb3rs fan.
PS. I feel like I should say something on the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. My hearts and prayers go to the families that lost their children that day and to all the people that lived through terrible circumstances that day. May God heal their souls and bind their wounds.
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