King Lear at the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland Oregon 2013

     King Lear is about three sinister sisters that inherit their fathers kingdom. One doesn't get any land and instead marries the king of France. She  still feels cheated by her father, so she leads the French army to take over England. The two sinister sisters don't want to deal with their father or the small army their father brought with him, so they flee to the Duke's house and hide there. My favorite part is the second act because some shit goes down when they jab out the Duke's eyes out and then they make him just straight leave. But he can't see so he is just wandering around blind because he knew that the French were coming, but he did not tell anybody- I wasn't 100% clear on why.

   sadly I could not find a video but I was able to find a couple of photos from this year's production 

       

this photo is from the first part but you already know that

        Over all I liked King Lear, but it did go on for a while, so that was not great. Besides that, it was generally great.

"Prisoners" (rated R) 

 "Prisoners" is a film about two children who get kidnaped. The father of one child is looking for the man responsible for the kidnaping. When the police catch one man that they think is responsible, but can't prove anything, they let him go. The father is furious about the release of the suspect and takes it upon himself to prove this man guilty. The father kidnaps the supposed  kidnapper and begins to torture him. The police say that the suspect has the IQ of a 10 year old and doesn't know anything, but the father doesn't believe them and goes as far as necessary including waterboarding and locking the man in a small room with know light and barely enough room to sit. 

here is a clip

  How it ends is the man with an IQ of a ten year olds aunt who he lives with is the kidnapper and he was kidnapped and drugged. When the aunt kidnaps children she makes them do a series of mazes, and if the complete them the get to go free. But the catch is that the last one is impossible.

  

Brooklyn 99

brooklyn 99 is a new tv show staring Andy Samberg as Detective Jake Peralta and Stephanie Beatriz as his partner Detective Rosa Diaz. Terry Crews is Sergeant Terry Jeffords. I like Terry Crews and in this role he is funny because he's not a tough guy. His character used to be really fat and was called Terry Titties, now even his wife is embarrassed of his minivan, which gets a dick painted in episode 2. 

There are not a lot of choices on YouTube yet, because this show is so new. The clip to see is Detective Jake chasing a Russian ham stealer through a deli.

The reason this show is funny is because it's both hilarious and clever, and it's a detective show, sort of. The stern gay captain wants Jake to take his job more seriously, but that's not gonna happen since there's not a lot of laughs there. 

Prediction: They're gonna have an episode where Jake takes his job as seriously as the captain wants, but then he won't do as well, so the captain will accept his hi-jinx. Stay tuned.