I'm in The Valley right now AIFG!
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[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.
Where did you live for undergrad?
I wouldn't count Pasadena as the Valley.
If Pasadena is in the Valley, then I'm a liar. My sense of geography is really bad.
I'm moving to the Valley next month! Right near Robin, too! And Allyson! And Kat! And others! AIFG!
It's in A Valley, D. I am not. To me, it's all The Valley, or an Even Further Valley.
t /geography snob
I'm in the Delaware Valley. Oops, 3000 miles apart.
Do I live in the valley? I still don't understand LA geography.
Zap2It interviews Tim and the cast. Minor spoilers for "Loneliest Number" (just the basic concept, and nothing fatal to a spoilerphobe like me).
The cast all sound so damn smart!
Harrington says he also read Ellroy's "The Black Dahlia," based on a famous Los Angeles murder case. Nichols, a Columbia University graduate with degrees in economics and applied mathematics, took a more analytical approach.
And then, of course:
While he may have started with serial killers, Minear doesn't plan to stop there. "We're doing violent crimes. We can do serial killers, but we can do arsonists, mad bombers, terrorists, rapists. There are all manner of sick and twisted deviant behaviors that we can explore for the enjoyment of America."
Pasadena is in the San Gabriel Valley. The Valley that is most often referred to as "The Valley" is the San Fernando Valley which is the basin that runs from the Verdugo Mountains to the East (those East of Burbank) to the mountains near Simi in the West. The Santa Monica/hollywood hills to the South and the San Gabriel Mountains to the North.
Thus, your geography lesson is done now.
I'd take notes but I figure after the next earthquake all of those places will be somewhere else anyway.
ETA -- Rachel Nichols is on the cover of the TV Week in Sunday's Chicago Tribune. There a reprint of the zap2it article on the series. And a reprint of another zap2it article about Katie Finneran, who is a native of Chicago. Katie said that she signed on because of Tim Minear, who she refers to as "the Noel Coward of television."