The Week in Entertainment

TV: Scrubs - clearly winding down and tying up loose ends - Janitor marrying, Turk getting chief of surgery, Jordan admitting she loves Perry... Better Off Ted - still very good. The no1 Ladies' Detective Agency - the interplay between the characters is better, and the cases aren't getting wrapped up in one episode - this miniseries is definitely improving as it goes along, and it was very good to start with. Frequency - I don't know how I missed this film (given that Dennis Quaid's in it), but I enjoyed it very much. Unlike the dreadful Premonition, which takes much the same premise but hacks it up horribly. Linda suffers from "the dangers of unbelief"? "Nature abhors a vacuum - even a spiritual one"? And all is well because he changed his mind about cheating and she's pregnant? With a baby that will never know its father? And she caused his death? (If he hadn't pulled into the road to come back, or stopped in the first place, he'd never have been hit by the truck.) Sheesh. At least in Frequency, the protagonists manage to fix the problem - and the fix the next one and the next one. Unless you just can't miss a Sandra Bullock movie, miss this one, with its sappy vague theism and its free-will-is-all-very-well-but-God/Fate-is-stronger + babies-make-everything-good message.

Read: Left Bukhta Radosti at work Friday, so haven't finished it (it's pretty good so far!). A Tale of One Bad Rat, an intense graphic novel people over at slacktivist recommended.