'Unleashed'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Yeah, having trouble with the plane ticket part of things. Maritime Canada is a very difficult place to fly out of in summer; there don't seem to be any award miles tickets available and regular flights to LA are around $900 (Canadian), which is too much.
I think you'll like DLM, and watch for all the little phrases (like "fate's bitch" and "unspool") it has in common with Wonderfalls.
Post-pilot, I think I'm going to love Dead Like Me. For the first half hour, all I could think was how similar it was to Wonderfalls (the opening sequence is very similar stylistically, and the main character is like a younger, blonde Jaye), but after George dies, and we start learning more about the premise of the show, it becomes its own beast. I'm loving all the rules of the universe (in one damn episode, it's defined its universe to a better extent than an entire season of Tru Calling ). Also, Mandy Patinkin! I'd never seen him as anyone but Inigo Montoya, but he's completely different here. And in a Minear connection, Rebecca Gayheart was originally cast as Inara.
I can't wait for more episodes to come, but between this and Wonderfalls, Bryan Fuller's definitely got my loyalty.
In a weird bit of synergy, I am singing the soundtrack of the Broadway musical of The Secret Garden, starring Mandy Patinkin (who has a gorgeous high tenor, by the way), as we speak.
And Dead Like Me was awesome. The first show I ever actually watched as it was airing other than Season Seven Buffy.
I predict Dead Like Me will be better than Buffy S7.
I have a pimple that is better than Buffy Season 7.
Dude, that pimple is COOL. I was watching it just the other day, and that stuff it did with the puss? That was NEAT.
Yeah, the pimple's character development is way subtle. And that time it almost popped, but didn't ? Let me tell you, tension was through the roof.
Now I'm afraid Allyson's pimple is going to start giving bad, long-winded speeches. Maybe we should cancel it before it's too late...
There aren't pimple potentials, are there?
Man, that would be the PiTs.