Well the Hollywood Reporter's review is a hell of a lot better than Variety's.
I had to watch the first 4 minutes. Is it Sunday yet?!
Wesley: We were fighting on opposite sides, but it was the same war. Fred: but you hated her…didn't you? Wesley: It's not always about holding hands.
'Shells'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[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, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Tamara - Apr 11, 2007 4:59:15 pm PDT #5098 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Apr 11, 2007 5:21:41 pm PDT #5099 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
I haven't been following the coverage for Drive very closely but I think that one of the reasons it's being called outlandish is because the premise points towards a convoluted backstory for the race; to make sense of it, you have to imagine huge conspiratorial machinations and that can lead one to a Da Vinci Code kind of place.
DavidS - Apr 11, 2007 5:34:42 pm PDT #5100 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Incidentally, Tim Goodman had an offhand mention of Drive in his column today and basically indicated it was a spring burnoff and had no chance of survival.
That doesn't seem in keeping with the promo energy Fox has put into it, but I can't think of a lot of spring debut shows that have succeeded. Mid-season, yes. Buffy was itself a midseason debut show.
Tamara - Apr 11, 2007 5:52:01 pm PDT #5101 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Wasn't Grey's Anatomy a spring premiere?
Yep. March 27th 2005.
Kat - Apr 11, 2007 5:52:55 pm PDT #5102 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Tamara, yep! A very very successful one.
Tamara - Apr 11, 2007 5:54:12 pm PDT #5103 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
My theory is, no network is burning anything off it they have it scheduled during May sweeps.
June yes.
May no way.
Liese S. - Apr 11, 2007 6:08:07 pm PDT #5104 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
There has been lots of Fox energy behind this one. They must like it. I'm excited.
Also, speculatively, about this:
once the race has been run, then what?
There was an (intriguing? misleading? confusing?) reference in one of those profiles that said: it's been Corinna's lifelong obsession to find out what's behind the race. That's a long race. I'm just saying.
Kat - Apr 11, 2007 6:19:03 pm PDT #5105 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
and of course, who says that the race ends at the end of Season 1? The premise seems elastic both in terms of duration and number of characters and storylines.
bon bon - Apr 11, 2007 6:40:41 pm PDT #5106 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
but I can't think of a lot of spring debut shows that have succeeded
Can you think of a lot of spring debut shows? It's another weird concept of Fox's, this all-year programming. Certainly a lot of summer shows have become hits. OC for example.
Allyson - Apr 11, 2007 6:41:16 pm PDT #5107 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's possible that this isn't the first time the race has been run.
A season could be a leg of the race, as well, it could take six months or a year to run it, it could take place every two years, whatever.
Because it's Tim, it's okay to invest in it if it grabs you, because he won't Abrams himself into a corner, leading to lame.