The Week in Entertainment

DVD: Part of the Siberiade, a long Russian movie spanning several generations - beautifully filmed.

TV: Surrogates, which undercut itself badly at the end. No surrogates crashed into something that blew up? No surrogates were transporting cargo? Planes or trucks? No surrogate doctors were operating? He just got deactivated every surrogate on earth and no people got hurt? Modern Family stays funny. The Middle was pretty good. Sherlock - the second wasn't quite as good as the first but it was still very entertaining - I loved John's battle with the PIN machine at the store. The Mentalist - I loved the weariness in Cho's voice when he answered "Who is that man?" with "It's a long story." And his expression when she said she didn't kiss Mashburn and he was saying "Not my business." And the housekeeper at Bajoran's - her look when she watched them leave - running them out - was priceless. And the guy at the glamp (glamorous camp): "Mr Mashburn, that won't be necessary. We have your card on file."

Read: I Shall Wear Midnight and then, because I realized I hadn't, Wintersmith. I do like Tiffany, and I'm glad that she realized she and Roland weren't "meant". Christmas Mourning, a good entry. Coming Back, the arrival of which reminded me to read Locked In last week. A couple of classic mysteries, Death Points a Finger (featuring one of those annoying polymath scientists people loved to read about as crimesolvers back in the 20s and 30s), Murder at Bridge, a light romantic mystery, and Murder at Hampstead, which featured a complex mystery that involved several people being arrested (tried even) before the solution showed up.