Couple of things I did for Stuff We Like in Peak Arts and Stuff We Hate in Peak Humour last week.
Stuff We Like:
4. Avatar: The Last Airbender
Risking ridicule, I am going to call Avatar one of the best television programs of the last decade. The show follows a messianic monk named Aang fighting to bring balance to a world being conquered by the Nazi-esque Fire Nation. Still with me? This show won a Peabody Award for “Unusually complex characters and healthy respect for the consequences of warfare.” The action, relationships and compelling exploration of morality and power makes it the Sopranos of American animation. Never condescending and unrelentingly entertaining, the series I watched (entirely) three times in one month is set to be ruined by M.Night Shyamalan in July.
Stuff We Hate:
2. Your boyfriend
That’s right, I hate your boyfriend. That bastard could be giving his kidney to an amputee, pediatric cancer patient with alopecia and no nostrils and I would still fire my ocular angst-ray at him every time he was around. The mere thought of him snuggling and watching Grey’s Anatomy with you while I go home to my Spaghetti-Ring® brand canned pasta and sad-clown pornography makes me want to punch a litter of kittens. I would tactically nuke his house and treat you to a night at Boston Pizza if I could just make the tears stop.
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