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Murakami Character: How To

Protagonist:

• Whiskey
• Records: jazz, classical
• Old westerns
• Cooks: pasta, side dishes
• Creative type job or no job
• Passive
• Not many friends/family
• Not overly social
• Yet undefinable sex appeal to females in his vicinity

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Penny Dreadful(s)

I’ve been fairly faithfully following the new Showtime series (well somewhat new, now into its second season) Penny Dreadful. And it has a really spectacular cast of actors–Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, and even the relatively less known names have done very well–and great production value and set direction…but somehow it just seems to lack the magic stuff.

But a bit of background: the show is named Penny Dreadful after really cheap, mass-produced fictional serials of the 1800s, often written about extraordinary subject matter intended to elicit illicit (ha) thrills. Wiki summarizes them as such:
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