Thursday, 9 February 2012

TV Shows: Outland

This new Australian series has popped up. Upon my initial hearing of it, I turned my nose up. There is nothing at all appealing to me in the name Outland. It sounds like some shitty Outback Mcleod's Daughters crossed with some stupid Packed to the Rafters or something equally as horrid. Not a thing.

But, a trusty friend of mine alerted me to the fact that perhaps I should watch it whereupon I glanced the plot outline and decided it may actually be a larf. A cringey larf.

I evidently did not know what I was getting myself into. . .

It was half an hour of pure torturous hell! My stomach is still sore from the anxiety it's caused me. I basically contains all the things that I hate about film or television or even life in general.

The main being lies. Irrational lies!

Just as a run down. The series is about a group of sci-fi enthusiasts that meet up and being geeks. And they're all homos.

The first episode follows this guy, Max, who, having been on a date with some hot stud, Dylan, go back to his house. Max has all the nerves because his house is full of sci-fi paraphernalia and he has the nerd shame. So he makes all the excuses, goes up and cleans his house and they go to have the sexy times (interwoven with awkward side steps from the truth). Then the door bell rings and all of his sci-fi friends start to file into his house. He tries to get them out. The half hour is laden with cringes from the terrible transparent characters to the incredibly poor script but my main concern is with the main character Max's motives. Oh, he just tells so many fucking lies! Why is this convention so common!? (esp so in things like teen films and romantic comedies) For heavens sake, please tell the damn fucking truth! I know, I know, without it there would be no point of tension but here's the point: Create tension without the fucking lies! I wanna weep!

I won't get too wrapped up in this but I'll end with this last point. In the end, Max decides he doesn't want to continue seeing this Dylan character because he is falsely misinformed about something to do with Darlecks? (Don't look at me, I've never watched an episode of Doctor Who in it's entirety) and basically just perpetuates this stupid idea that people need to be within their own 'species' and never endeavour to challenge the limitations that are created that you buy into by choosing to be a certain 'thing'. My Fury Mounts!

Basically, this dumb series exists only to give me migraines and stomach flus, essentially glorifying the two biggest things I am against. I am also uncertain as to whether I'm going to take such a masochistic stand point and continue to watch it even though it causes me so much nauseating grief.

Here's a link to download

Tell me what you think.