Even if I adore Matthew Macfadyen as Felix from The Way We Live Now, who plays Darcy in the most recent adaptation, there is no debate: this BBC adaptation, starring Colin Firth in the role he was bred to play, is the definitive, perfect adaptation of the utterly charming Jane Austen novel.

Moms, grand moms, sisters, and any other woman who has seen it will agree. If you are a fan of Austen, period romances, or Colin Firth, you can not deny yourself this viewing pleasure any longer. Rent or netflix it today and get swept away in the notion that true love indeed conquers all.

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Posted on February 12, 2007

I used to love Talk Soup with Greg Kinnear and never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd love the show again after the Henson nightmare and the mediocrity in-between.

But Joel McHale is here along with so much good material from TV, it will make your head spin. I think TV has caught up with the sarcastic writers that love to make fun of it. I watch every week because it saves me from having to watch an entire episode of I Love New York, The Tyra Banks Show, or the dreaded View.

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Posted on January 29, 2007

Oh how this quirky, odd show has grown on me. It is now one of only a few comedies on TV that I look forward to new episodes. The fact that there are new episodes is a surprise, due to it's explicit content and downright weird humor–but as we know Oxygen will play just about anything (see Bad Girl's Club). Campus's second season, which is just starting, was as unexpected as the fact that Strangers with Candy was allowed three seasons and the two shows share a lot in common.

While not as grotesque and surreal as Candy, this sometimes dirty and strange show is akin to it, with a little bit of the faux reality of Curb Your Enthusiasm. In fact, Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines is one of the producers. The main characters of the show are Barrie and Joan, two middle age suburban women who enroll in college after their domestic lives don't work out. Christen Sussin and Carrie Aizley are hilarious and understated as the sheltered housewives turned co-eds and the rest of the cast, down to guest stars and extras, are brilliant. Give it a chance, it will grow on you too.

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Posted on January 15, 2007

Don't fault it for ushering in reality TV and certainly don't expect it to have any resemblance to The Girls Next Door. In this nobel experiment documentarian Paul Almond followed the lives of fourteen British children starting at the age of seven and revisiting every seven years. The kids were chosen for their varied socioeconomic backgrounds to determine how much class dictates childrens' futures. The latest in the series, 49 Up, was shown in theaters last year and the series was recently released in its entirety on DVD and is worth a lengthy watch. An American version of the series was also began in 1992, but is harder to find.

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Posted on January 1, 2007

Injustice is a depressing thing, and a 48 Hours Mystery I saw the other night depicted a gross injustice (in my opinion). The show told the tragic tale of a family brutally murdered and the several trials that put the father behind bars. I have no way of knowing what really happened that night but I do know that legally they did not prove he did it.

It scares me sometimes to imagine my fate ever being in the hands of twelve random individuals. Surely, it is the system that works the most so far in human history, but it is not without its flaws – flaws that truly ruin and destroy lives.

This is why you should always do your jury duty if you are a reasonable person, because reasonable people are needed. Wow, that is about as close to a rant that I've gone on in Brix Picks. What can I say, I was very upset by the program. And by the way, 48 Hours Mystery

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Posted on December 18, 2006