A rant: I don’t care what anyone says, the following shows suck The Office, 30 Rock, Entourage, and all those other 'wow, aren’t we so clever with our cinema verite pretensions!'--- totally missing the point that presenting satirical, ironic humor from the viewpoint of what we’re conditioned to otherwise believe is reality (The medium is the message—Thank you, Marshall!) is a fundamental flaw in the concept---too much cognitive dissonance.
And as for Two and Half Men,don't get me started---too late!!
I’ll steal from King Henry II, “Will no one rid us of this burdensome affront to Western culture??!!”
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I loved the shows Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond, but all the time was bothered by two dubious character premises:
In Friends,okay, there may be some actors who are not as sharp as others, but can anyone believe that box-o-rocks dumb Joey is an actor? I mean, an actor should at least be able to read a script, right? Am I outta line here?
As for...Raymond---we're really supposed to believe that he's a sports writer? Or a writer of any kind?? His character is of one of a determined anti-intellectual plebian who would find the reading of a fortune cookie message too taxing.
Whoever conceived of his character as a sports scribe should be haunted by Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Thomas Boswell, Roger Kahn, et al.
Just caught the new Jenna Elfman show, Accidentally on Purpose (lets hope they don't regret that "on purpose" line later).
Not half bad--only about 35% so.
Potentially funny supporting cast and a batting average of about .500 on clever fresh lines vs. obvious ones covered with mold.
Of course, you have Jenna Elfman playing a reluctant cougar, by which I mean to say you have Dharma playing a reluctant cougar. Unfortunately for her, she's not reluctant enough to avoid getting knocked up by a boy who was probably born about the time she graduated high school.
Hilarity ensues (or is supposed to).
The show's main asset is Elfman, who is so perky and cute that she'd drive Lou Grant to an act of strangulation. But she's winsome. You winsome, you lose some.
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Who were the morons who canceled Worst Week?- along with Everybody Love Chris, the funniest show on the tube last year?
And how in the name of all things holy do you year after year refuse to recognize the surpassing brilliance and cleverness of ... Chris, along with its spectacular supporting cast, come Emmy time? I mean, don't hate it because it has the misfortune of sharing the same station as Tyler Perry's train wrecks.
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A pox on those greedy corporate philistines who came up with the idea of "snipes"-- those distracting promos for other shows they put in the bottom of the screen while you're trying to watch one.
I swear, they getting so much bigger, louder and of longer duration that I found myself yesterday becoming engrossed with them and lost interest in the show I was watching!! It's the work of Satan!
The One Liners #365
16 years ago
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