"HANK The Horrible" et al......
manitou
needed 'tinkering'.....:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/fall-tvs-winners-and-losers/article1346134/
"Flashforward", adapted from a novel by Ottawa-born sci-fi author,
Robert Sawyer, is considered a big hit. Even my Yale PhD friend, who
hates sci-fi, is watching it!
I've stopped watching "Brothers & Sisters". It's like a daytime soap
produced with an unlikely A-List cast --- interesting, colorful
characters, but essentially boring stories.
And after last night, I think I'm about to dump "Desperate
Housewives". While the extreme characters still generate a degree of
'guilty pleasure' entertainment, I simply feel I'm wasting my time
watching it.
CPJ
pro.inbox56
> According to Mr. Doyle, "HANK" ("horrible") is on hiatus for some much
> needed 'tinkering'.....:
>
Oh, is this Roz' father? ;)
Haven't seen it since the pilot, but that's really only because I have
a standing commitment for Wed. pm. If I get a Wed. free sometime, tho,
I may check in to see what Hank is doing. I think it would be great if
they could pull the chestnuts out of the fire and make something
edible out of it...but there up against some steep odds based on
history.
> "Flashforward", adapted from a novel by Ottawa-born sci-fi author,
> Robert Sawyer, is considered a big hit. Even my Yale PhD friend, who
> hates sci-fi, is watching it!
I've heard a number of people mentioning this as a good show. I
haven't caught an ep. yet though...but who knows? I might yet. I
didn't catch on to Frasier until it was in advanced seasons.
> I've stopped watching "Brothers & Sisters". It's like a daytime soap
> produced with an unlikely A-List cast --- interesting, colorful
> characters, but essentially boring stories.
Sadly, these kind of shows are pretty much like this by nature. I
watched the first ep. of B&S and this was the tone I picked up from
it, which is why I didn't give it a second look.
> And after last night, I think I'm about to dump "Desperate
> Housewives". While the extreme characters still generate a degree of
> 'guilty pleasure' entertainment, I simply feel I'm wasting my time
> watching it.
Interesting. I recently heard a friend say much the same thing. He
said it has devolved into a stereotypical soap opera which has lost
his interest and he thinks he will quit watching. But I don't think
it's elements have changed much at all from the first season. It's
always been a soap opera...but with a much more comic slant that
functions as a spoof on/ satire of SOs.
Personally, I think it never recaptured the lustre of its first
season, when it lit up the airwaves with a signature style of a kind
of quirky, off-beat, slightly irreverent black humor that was both
clever and fresh. Marc Cherry passed the reigns of head writer to
others, and though it's had some finer moments where it displays a
little of its old charm, for the most part I see it as having lapsed
into recycled bits from old sitcoms (as we all have noted many times)
and plotlines that felt forced at times, and mostly fell flat (or were
simply anti-climatic when the "shoe drops"). I don't think it's any
worse than it was its second season...but the problem with that is, 4
seasons of off-peak, rather predictable, or simply uninteresting,
plots and story arcs become pretty damn stale.
I took over my father's New Yorker magazine subscription which
requires a significant time commitment to really get through. My bias
right now is to transition my free time from the TV watching I am
doing currently to mostly reading time. My brain could use some
intellectual stimulation rather than further numbing...which sadly is
what most TV watching feels like to me these days. *sigh*