Mid-season Night's Dream
Am I the only one woefully disappointed by the mid-season replacements television has to offer? It's one thing to pull our favorite shows right when the get good, but quite another to replace them with things that are 'meh' inducingly bland (David E. Kelly I'm looking at you and "Wedding Bells") to jaw-droppingly awful ("The Winner" you know who you are)shows. Thank god my recent lull in classwork has allowed me to plunge a bit beyond what our cable actually picks up though, because I've found my first reccomendation:
"The Riches" is a good show because it's premise can only go two ways: artistically inspired or so bad it's hilarious.
Basic premise: Family of southern gypsy con artists headed by Eddie Izzard Dad and heroin addicted Mom Minnie Driver flee the gypsy lifestyle and assume the identity of a dead family in a fancy gated community. Brilliant.
Early reviews always seem to touch on the fact that the show is very "HBO" or "Six feet under" which really just means it's well acted and shot, or in this case, kind of exactly like "Big Love". I mean you've got the troubled marriage, insane kids (some wanting to stay gypsies some not) and the evil cult of their past undoubtedly eventually nipping at their heels. But I think the strengths of this show are the way it seems to subvert a lot of things which annoyed me about "Big Love".
It seems to be as much about how the regular world is horrible as it is about travelers and their class system. I've written enough damn papers on pikies and travelers in Ireland to know if there's one thing they hate its normal people so, yeah, good call. While it was amusing to have the antagonists in "Big Love" be, like, best friends and nice neighbors and squeaky clean LDS missionaries theres something a little better about kind of evil people screwing over other kind of evil people. This show isn't "Hustle" where the criminal stars somehow are always cool and nice and in some way do good, but still it'll be easy to root for them against the dumb normal people.
But enough of this. Good show. Also it finally showed me the badass Eddie Izzard and serious Minnie Driver ill fated casting directors have tried to show me for years.
Now here's hoping Andy Richter can keep this weeks good t.v. streak alive!
Cam
Am I the only one woefully disappointed by the mid-season replacements television has to offer? It's one thing to pull our favorite shows right when the get good, but quite another to replace them with things that are 'meh' inducingly bland (David E. Kelly I'm looking at you and "Wedding Bells") to jaw-droppingly awful ("The Winner" you know who you are)shows. Thank god my recent lull in classwork has allowed me to plunge a bit beyond what our cable actually picks up though, because I've found my first reccomendation:
"The Riches" is a good show because it's premise can only go two ways: artistically inspired or so bad it's hilarious.Basic premise: Family of southern gypsy con artists headed by Eddie Izzard Dad and heroin addicted Mom Minnie Driver flee the gypsy lifestyle and assume the identity of a dead family in a fancy gated community. Brilliant.
Early reviews always seem to touch on the fact that the show is very "HBO" or "Six feet under" which really just means it's well acted and shot, or in this case, kind of exactly like "Big Love". I mean you've got the troubled marriage, insane kids (some wanting to stay gypsies some not) and the evil cult of their past undoubtedly eventually nipping at their heels. But I think the strengths of this show are the way it seems to subvert a lot of things which annoyed me about "Big Love".
It seems to be as much about how the regular world is horrible as it is about travelers and their class system. I've written enough damn papers on pikies and travelers in Ireland to know if there's one thing they hate its normal people so, yeah, good call. While it was amusing to have the antagonists in "Big Love" be, like, best friends and nice neighbors and squeaky clean LDS missionaries theres something a little better about kind of evil people screwing over other kind of evil people. This show isn't "Hustle" where the criminal stars somehow are always cool and nice and in some way do good, but still it'll be easy to root for them against the dumb normal people.
But enough of this. Good show. Also it finally showed me the badass Eddie Izzard and serious Minnie Driver ill fated casting directors have tried to show me for years.
Now here's hoping Andy Richter can keep this weeks good t.v. streak alive!
Cam
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