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captainsblog) wrote2010-07-03 12:49 pm
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The story so far:
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching.
Fine. Now I'll link to the show site:P
I don't know what it is- or rather, what it isn't- about this show on SHO. You take one actor from a long-gone HBO Sunday night show, give him a hypo and a set of carving knives, and everybody goes gaga over him. (Including me.) Yet every Monday night for most of this year, we had another HBO Original Series alum, also with a hypo but more likely to be packing a pill bottle than a hacksaw, and there's been virtually no buzz about what she, and her fabulous ensemble cast, had been up to or where they were likely to go.
Nurse Jackie was the first series in years that Eleanor and I watched together. Every week. Not Mondays at 10- we're too old for that- but religiously catching the DVR'd ep from the previous night as a regular Tuesday dinner routine. Even before the start of this season, Edie Falco had completely bleached Carmela Soprano out of my brain, replacing her with a persona that's tougher, yet kinder, and much realer.
The rest of the regulars also shine. Peter Facinelli as her leading foil, completely over-the-topping every week compared to his bleached-out persona in the Twilight universe. Eve Best's her BestFF, with issues of her own but a heart that somehow never fails despite being atop a ridiculous pair of FM's. Merritt Wever's Zoey, who our kitten was partly named for, is just as young, just as sweet, and just as capable of getting into monstrous trouble.
"And all the rest," as the Gilligan's Island theme originally put it. Don't read what I have to say about them, though. WATCH. The on-demands for both seasons are still there, if you've got the SHO. (If you don't, S1 is out and all of S2 is, um, available, if you know the right person.)
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I did mention one other thing the other day that's at least marginally related to TV shows, so I may as well finish that thought here:
JMS takes over DC reboot of Wonder Woman
The two of you I'd expect to be interested in this have already posted about it (including the one of you who, as usual, pointed it out to me;), but both focused on the new costuming aspect of it. Personally, I think it's long overdue to have her past her bustier and go-go boot phase, and I say that coming from the generation that had posters of Lynda Carter in that getup loving pasted to dormitory walls. (Not us; we had too many weirdass Roger Dean Yes album cover art on the walls for such frivolity.)
What hasn't been talked about, much, is how having the mind of J. Michael Straczynski as the show-runner of this comic. I never watched Babylon 5 during its run, but many of the fans of other things I was watching (and even writing for an online version of) were quite aware of the JMS method. There was a place for everything, and everything was in its place. How that's going to work with a character who they seem to be going out of their way to make less controllable, we'll have to see.
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching.
Fine. Now I'll link to the show site:P
I don't know what it is- or rather, what it isn't- about this show on SHO. You take one actor from a long-gone HBO Sunday night show, give him a hypo and a set of carving knives, and everybody goes gaga over him. (Including me.) Yet every Monday night for most of this year, we had another HBO Original Series alum, also with a hypo but more likely to be packing a pill bottle than a hacksaw, and there's been virtually no buzz about what she, and her fabulous ensemble cast, had been up to or where they were likely to go.
Nurse Jackie was the first series in years that Eleanor and I watched together. Every week. Not Mondays at 10- we're too old for that- but religiously catching the DVR'd ep from the previous night as a regular Tuesday dinner routine. Even before the start of this season, Edie Falco had completely bleached Carmela Soprano out of my brain, replacing her with a persona that's tougher, yet kinder, and much realer.
The rest of the regulars also shine. Peter Facinelli as her leading foil, completely over-the-topping every week compared to his bleached-out persona in the Twilight universe. Eve Best's her BestFF, with issues of her own but a heart that somehow never fails despite being atop a ridiculous pair of FM's. Merritt Wever's Zoey, who our kitten was partly named for, is just as young, just as sweet, and just as capable of getting into monstrous trouble.
"And all the rest," as the Gilligan's Island theme originally put it. Don't read what I have to say about them, though. WATCH. The on-demands for both seasons are still there, if you've got the SHO. (If you don't, S1 is out and all of S2 is, um, available, if you know the right person.)
----
I did mention one other thing the other day that's at least marginally related to TV shows, so I may as well finish that thought here:
JMS takes over DC reboot of Wonder Woman
The two of you I'd expect to be interested in this have already posted about it (including the one of you who, as usual, pointed it out to me;), but both focused on the new costuming aspect of it. Personally, I think it's long overdue to have her past her bustier and go-go boot phase, and I say that coming from the generation that had posters of Lynda Carter in that getup loving pasted to dormitory walls. (Not us; we had too many weirdass Roger Dean Yes album cover art on the walls for such frivolity.)
What hasn't been talked about, much, is how having the mind of J. Michael Straczynski as the show-runner of this comic. I never watched Babylon 5 during its run, but many of the fans of other things I was watching (and even writing for an online version of) were quite aware of the JMS method. There was a place for everything, and everything was in its place. How that's going to work with a character who they seem to be going out of their way to make less controllable, we'll have to see.
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I'm a big fan of JMS. On the advice of a movie critic friend, I tuned in during the first season. It was arguably the worst episode of the series: Infection. I'd seen the same story told by Roddenbury more than once, and so tuned out again. It wasn't until Episode 1 of Season 2 that I picked it up again and was hooked instantly.
I tried to get into Jeremiah, but JMS was unequally yoked in that one. His episodes were great; the others, not so much. I got tired with writers who clearly didn't understand the characters and gave up.
A fan once called him a god. He responded, "Thank you, but I'm afraid I can't accept your compliment. You see, I'm an atheist, so if I'm also God, that would mean that I don't believe in myself, and at this point in my life, I don't need the added insecurity."