TurquoiseB wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote:
>
>> Now this might be interesting if well executed. It is a series
>> about the US as a corporate backed monarchy with Ian McShane
>> ("Deadwood") as the King. It's is a modern update of the Biblical
>> King David story. Debuts this Sunday on NBC.
>> http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/06/nbcs-kings-scri.html
>>
>
> This sounds interesting. Ian McShane alone
> makes it a "must see" series, at least long
> enough to give it a chance.
>
> My copy of "Castle" is still downloading, so
> I can't comment on it. I don't have high hopes
> for it; I just love Nathan Fillion, and hope
> that he lands a role someday that is halfway
> as good as Captain Tightpants in "Firefly."
>
> I'm still fuming about my "guilty pleasure"
> series, "The L Word." After having set us up
> all season to find out who killed the horrific
> megabitch that we in the audience all wanted
> to kill, too...they didn't. They "played it
> out" such that *everyone* at the party at which
> she wound up dead in the swimming pool had good
> reason to want her dead. And then they left it
> there. Interesting, I guess, but I'm left feel-
> ing the same thing that one reviewer of the
> episode said in the title of his or her review:
> "The L Words: Lame, Lousy Letdown."
>
> And, thanks to you, I'm now stuck watching "24."
> As comedy, mind you, but sometimes it's so bad
> that the laughs come few and far between. A
> bunch of terrorists finding a secret way into
> the *White House* and taking the President
> hostage...yeah...that's gonna happen.
>
> It looks as if "Life On Mars US" is not going
> to be renewed, which gives me reason to doubt
> my own rant about "deserves" this morning. If
> any terrible remake of a great British TV show
> "deserved" to die a horrible death, it's this
> one. :-)
>
> But with any luck a second 8-episode season of
> "Ashes To Ashes" (the British followup series
> to "Life On Mars") will be back soon, so I can
> get back into that alternative reality the way
> it was supposed to be done. Philip Glenister
> as Gene Hunt could have eaten Harvey Keitel as
> Gene Hunt for breakfast, and had room for
> seconds. I actually *like* Harvey Keitel some-
> times, but this is even worse than his perform-
> ance in that godawful Jane Campion disaster
> "Holy Smoke," with him as the stupidest anti-
> cult deprogrammer in the known universe. And
> if you had the misfortune to see "Holy Smoke,"
> you know how bad bad can be.
I thought last night's "24" was little better than their usual scripts.
I have "Holy Smoke" on DVD and thought it was fine. If you ever saw
Campion's film "Sweetie" then you would strongly suspect she was a TM'er
(of course who wasn't back in the 1970s). It includes a group checking
session and one of the characters is a TM teacher. As for "Holy
Smoke" I kinda liked the mind game that the Winslet character played on
the Keitel character. And I'm sure there are lots of dumb
deprogrammers out there too. ;-)
There are so many talented people in the world who could do much better
shows than Hollywood produces for TV but Hollywood is a closed shop.
Either you fight your way in or have an uncle or aunt in the business.
And then the bean counters destroy many shows. The film industries of
about every country (including Mexico) produce far superior creative
products. America is a country of money worshipers or lucratavists (an
old IBEW term) and they destroyed the place.
