House of Cards

Genre - Political drama
Distributor - Netflix or online
My rating - 4 stars out of 5

This is a political drama rather than political thriller (as I would probably describe Scandal).
It isn't so much fast paced as fast talking. If you know nothing about American politics then you may struggle with some of the concepts and less so, the storylines (the same way detail can be lost in The Newsroom to a foreign, i.e. non American, audience).  Lets face it, the American writer does not write with a non native audience in mind, selling to other territories is just a bonus to them.
That aside, this is a fairly gripping tv show. I am yet to finish the season but I am liking what I've seen to date.  I'm finding myself recommending it, but I fail to be convinced if that is just because there are few shows separating the wheat from the chaff so far this year....

Red Widow

I plan to blog about this soon so watch this space!

I have decided that this poor effort of a show really isn't worth 2 posts.  I don't even think it is worth this one revised post!

Network - ABC
Genre - Boring sorry I mean drama?
My rating - 1 star out of 5

Bad acting, bad and predictable storyline, bad, bad, bad.

GIVE IT A MISS!

G-dog millionaire

Love this hound!

My new role...

I've just started working as a Trainee Biomedical Scientist within the Cellular Pathology department of a local hospital.  I've just completed my first week in the lab and I LOVE IT!

At last I have found a job whereby I actually look forward to going to work each day.

Yes, I'm finding it quite tiring (who wouldn't after 4 months off) but that doesn't matter because I really am loving what I'm doing.

So far I have spent my time in the dissection room watching Pathologists at work and learning how to book in samples to the lab.  I get to see some pretty gruesome stuff I can tell you but it's all amazing!  I cannot quite believe just how unaffected I am by all the things I've seen this week.  Just a few years ago I couldn't stand the sight of even the smallest drop of blood and now, well without painting too horrid a picture, I see a lot of it and it's pretty much all day every day now.  Before you think I'm incredibly disturbed or macabre, I'm not I just find it all so fascinating on a purely educational level.

I'll try to post more as my year long placement continues.

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