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Date Viewed	Venue	Note
06.08.12		In the commentary track for Game of Thrones, the kid who plays Jon Snow said his two favorite TV shows were The Wire and Sharpe. I figured I would check it out. It seems more like Sharpe is a series of TV movies a la Horatio Hornblower. From the looks of it there's like 14 of them. I rented the first to see what it was all about. It's a period story taking place around 1800 when the British were fighting the French (huge surprise) and allied with the Spanish. My British history is not good enough to tell you what they were fighting about or what the war was called, but the beginning title card mentioned Napoleon being at his height or something like that. Anyway, a young Sean Bean plays Robert Sharpe: lowborn soldier made Leffftenant for saving some officer's life in the beginning because he's a b'dass shot. This one plays out as a bit of a (even more) historical Dirty Dozen where Sharpe gets handed a group of misfits and gets instructed to go on some secret suicide mission by intelligence office Brian Motherfucking Cox (complete with awesome facial hair). Honestly, the story was fun enough, the actors were good and on paper it seems like I should've liked it, but I just couldn't get past that British TV thing. I was kind of bored through most of it. Don't think I'll be watching the next 13, but I'm glad I saw a little bit at least and learned of its existence. Maybe someday when i'm bored I'll go back through these... or something.