Updates and my "Hyperdrive" review

Hello to all of my not-so-adoring fans! I know it has been almost a month since I last posted anything, but hey, give me a break. Between having to understudy in my own play (The Grimm Identity a.k.a Kill You Dead) and breaking my nose, life has been busy! But I do feel the need to inform you that the play, starting out rocky with its opening show, was met with some pretty good reviews and happened to capture the attention of almost everyone in attendance! With that, I extend a congratulations to everyone who was a part of "The Grimm Identity", and I extend an even bigger congratulations to Mitch Solomon, the director of the show. Good show, sir, good show!

Moving on, I did mention earlier that I had recently broken my nose, so recent mind you that it was the day immediately following the last showing of my play. I broke the bone in two and even managed to get a pretty sexy looking laceration across the bridge. Needless to say, it doesn't look pretty right now. But to the point, during my recovery period I've been watching various television shows and movies, most notably being Nick Frost's "Hyperdrive" (2006). If you're unfamiliar with the name Nick Frost, you'll recognize him as the listless alcoholic Ed from "Shaun of the Dead", the slightly naive, but very eager PC Danny Butterman from "Hot Fuzz", or even as the tank-stealing gun nut Mike Watt in "Spaced". If any of these characters ever made you laugh upon viewing them, then you'll be baffled to find that Nick's character of Michael Henderson in "Hyderdrive" lacks just about everything that makes him one of Britain's leading funny men.

The show itself starts out slow, but quickly reduces its speed ten-fold, making it slower than molasses. The storyline of each episode strives to be original, yet always ends up becoming contrived and very uninspired. Almost all of the jokes induce yawns rather than laughs, and the ones that deserve a chuckle are passed by before a second thought occurs. Don't get me wrong, I find physical humor very funny, but there's only so much I can take of aliens licking someone's face in the name of peace and then trying to rub their genitals against another person's head.

The actors are all very talented, especially Kevin Eldon, of whom I first became familiar with as The Cleaner in Dylan Moran's "Black Books", but the talent is shot down before even leaving the gate. With all of this negativity weighing down on the "con" side of the scale I do have to admit that I'm extremely surprised the BBC would even permit finishing a complete season, let alone letting this show go on for TWO seasons with how lackluster its efforts were. I mean, the only thing really going for this show was the CGI, and even that got very tiresome to look at after awhile.

I'd definitely suggest leaving this show on any video rental store's shelf to collect dust while you peruse the store for another of Nick Frost's better comedy efforts. My advice; stick to "Shaun of the Dead" or Hot Fuzz", at least then you won't want to kill yourself with a dull spoon.