Aye, it’s a very good filmed musical.
Frankly rather stagey, though.
The starting scene, for example, in Bialystock’s office, is tiresome. It seemed like an imitation of another kind of film. And I’m not saying this because I saw the original; I never saw the original. It just feels like they’re simply impersonating a musical film comedy [...]
I here present slap-on fixes for two really common modules in Perl-5.8-based web development—CGI.pm and DBI.pm—to allow them to properly support character encoding within an all-UTF-8 application. Both fixes can be installed with an application, without requiring admin access to the server (so ideal for a web hosted app); both fixes operate as a thin filter layer, requiring minimal changes to your app.
Fantastic pilot episode.
Shame the second one sucks.
It’s sub-Red Dwarf (the unfunny years), improbable in plot and unconvincing in execution.
O! To have one’s expectations raised so high, then dashed so low!
UPDATE: Just watched episode 4… which was almost a return to the form of the first one, so maybe it’s not a complete wash-out.
Now if only [...]