Nott What You'd Expected...

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Danish Television be Done

Today I attended yet another screening for my Television Cultures class here at UNott, and was again blown away at what can somehow be considered entertainment in some countries, and what is considered academia here-

the first clip we watched was a show called The Kingdom, from Denmark, about a haunted hospital- the episode was the show's pilot, and aired in 1994 . The first episode sets up the characters, the basic hauntedness of the hospital, and a creepy occult group of doctors who initiate each other into some strange sect, intent on protecting the hospital.


Apparently, even as a miniseries, the show was included in the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die..... i'll have to check more out later....

The second clip is of the House-like (the Fox TV show, not the dwelling place) doctor, a Swede, who comes to practice medicine in Denmark. The clip is pretty self explanatory.


What struck me as most odd was the scenes including two downs-syndrome characters who act almost as the Pre-Cogs do in Minority Report- they say really cryptic, deep things like 'the woman knows about the child' or 'the building, it cries'- all while washing dishes in the dishroom and readjusting their glasses which seem to keep slipping down their noses....

The last two clips are random Youtubes that caught my eye. The first because of our growing infatuation with Greys here the flat, and the second because the little girl says everything i've ever wanted to say...



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Tonight will probably be spent hating myself, wishing my headache would go away, watching last night's LOST, reading 150 pages of Dickens that I should have read over the past few days, and doing research for an upcoming presentation on Televisual Styles.

TGIF....ish.

posted by Kevin @ 1:32 PM