Unbearably, beautifully bleak to watch … Steve Buscemi, Louis CK and Edie Falco in Horace and Pete.
Horace and Pete is unbearably, beautifully bleak to watch, and it stays with you.
"This rosy picture looks considerably bleaker, when watched from the perspective of those who were left behind in the east.
And if you were feeling a bit bleak about life, watching Silent Witness would not have helped.
The other day, an intelligent young woman told me she had just watched Bleak Moments, my first film.
Now, you can hear those "deh-neh-neh-neh-nahs" and be assured you're about to get some smidgen of joy amid bleak times from watching comedians rage about the dire politics and media of the day.
It was a bleak time and, watching Anne Hathaway toss her lustrous hair and James Franco level his handsome, squinting, stoner gaze at the camera, it's hard to fathom that it wasn't too long ago.
"Sometimes I force absurdity onto the bleakest of subjects and watch what results.
No? Ah well, perhaps you too managed to cancel out all of those uplifting, feelgood endorphins by watching the bleak and unrelentingly depressing Red Riding (C4), a drama that is to escapist-lifestyle telly what 1974 was to escapism and lifestyle - ie, effectively, another bloody country.
Sipping from a lukewarm can of sugar-free Rockstar, I surveyed the bleak scene before me, watching smoke machines billowing out into the nothing that surrounded them.
