Err.....I know it's the official site, so I don't expect much...I mean, it's bad enough the episode summaries are focused solely on the surface plot and miss all the character stuff, but this is the last line of the summary for "Old Wounds":
"Officers burst in and kill Strong."
Um....no. In fact, that changes the whole point of...sigh. Forget it. But somebody has to tell FOX to tell their website employees to pay more attention.
Dear god, I need an editor whom I don't already owe the world in a Harry and David Basket filled with chocolate.
Just out of curiousity, how does one broach the subject of creating a character with a guest actor in mind when the episode involves said character being a boundary-violating vocal proponent of B&D and becoming a victim of homosexual rape? I'm picturing a "Gee... thanks for thinking of me?" reaction happening there.
Are you kidding? Most actors
love
playing anyone who's different in anyway. Serial killer, rapist, mentally challenged, blind, missing a limb, schizophrenic, drugged addicted, Nazi, tormented artist (all at once and you're guaranteed some kind of nomination)...it's all good. It gives them tons of meat from which to create a character, and lots of opportunities for costumes, props, and interesting physicality.
Oh, no argument it was a plum role with lots of great facets for an actor to explore. It's just the "I wrote this character for you!" element that struck me as having awkwardness potential.
Awesome performance aside, my favorite part about that guy is that he directed PCU.
I have to admit the "Afternoon Delight" prank/torture scene is a comedic moment that I've remembered fondly for years and years. Despite a friend actually doing something like that to me with "Party Man."
And then, something miraculous happened: The executives at Fox hired Tim Minear to salvage the project. Minear worked his way up the TV ladder as a writer on various shows until he made his mark on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, Angel. From there he executive produced the critically-lauded Firefly in 2002 before creating Wonderfalls last year. How good is Minear? It would not be rash to consider him one of the five best minds in television.
Aww man. They got that he didn't work on Buffy, but he wasn't a creator of Wonderfalls. They brought him in as showrunner after it was already together.
He still wrote one of the, for my money, best episodes of that entire series.