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Rob Batchelor

Male, Midlands, mid-twenties.
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Homeland Review: “A Red Wheelbarrow” (Season 3, Episode 8)
For a moment, just one moment on this week's episode of Homeland, I thought they'd lost it. I thought they'd cracked and decided to go all 24 on us. It was when Fara returned home from sitting in the CIA parking lot for over thirty minutes, and we got to see inside her house for the first time. It was homely, sure, but the typically Middle Eastern (for want of a better term) music playing suddenly made my stomach lurch. I thought maybe the writers had decided to make Fara a terrorist. I thought the only heroic Muslim female on American television was about to be outed as a double agent all along, and I was just about ready to email the editor of this site and let him know that I didn't want to review the show anymore. My finger was hovering over the mouse and everything; no mean feat given the short amount of time it took for that impression to dissipate, when it became clear that Fara - at least for the moment - is no terrorist.
Rob Batchelor Rob Batchelor Nov 18, 2013
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Homeland Review: “Gerontion” (Season 3, Episode 7)
There's not much of a sense of humour to Homeland. There's a very slight vein of absurdist humour that occasionally runs through the show, usually surrounding Brody and his various scrapes, but never that much. I'm not sure if it's just my own warped sense of humour, but I found "Gerontion" really, really funny. I'm not saying it's laugh a minute, but there are a few really funny scenes. Well, two. But they were genuinely funny, and insightful, and enlightening, and I'll come to them in a bit.
Rob Batchelor Rob Batchelor Nov 11, 2013
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New Girl Review: “Coach” (Season 3, Episode 7)
I never liked Coach, back in the day. He was only in Pilot, but I never liked him. He seemed to jar with the rest of the New Girl cast. Maybe it's because he appeared, at least superficially, successful and nice. Maybe he was too good looking. Maybe he wasn't damaged enough for my tastes. Whatever it was, I took against him. It might be a childish reaction, or sulky, or whatever; suffice to say, I didn't like him. So when I saw on Wikipedia an upcoming episode entitled "Coach," my heart sank a little bit. Not too much, obviously - it's just a TV show, and who knows? It might be great. I'm not one to take television that seriously, really, even though I write reviews twice weekly for this very site. That week, the "Coach" week, that week is this week, and you know what? It wasn't half bad.
Rob Batchelor Rob Batchelor Nov 6, 2013
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Homeland Review: “Staying Positive” (Season 3, Episode 6)
Everything is a series of human relationships. Our every waking moment involves us taking part in some sort of human relationship, even the loneliest among us. Homeland has always revolved around pivotal relationships, more than one at a time. In the beginning, it was the relationship between Brody and his family, Brody and Carrie, and Carrie and Saul. This relationship triangle has formed the basis of the show up to now in basic terms, but what happens when those central tenets change? What happens when the pivots bend? Or even break?
Rob Batchelor Rob Batchelor Nov 4, 2013
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Larry Charles To Direct Robert Redford In A Walk In The Woods
Larry Charles has signed on today to direct Robert Redford and Nick Nolte in an adaptation of Bill Bryson's best selling memoir A Walk In The Woods. The film will tell the story of an aging travel writer who decides to hike the 2000 mile Appalachian trail, accompanied by an old friend whom he doesn't quite get along with. What begins as a regular buddy movie becomes something deeper, and the trail slowly comes to represent how they see each other.
Rob Batchelor Rob Batchelor Nov 1, 2013
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