[FairfieldLife] Re: NBC's 'Kings'
--- 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.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: NBC's 'Kings'
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.
