JfC: I'm at ep 7, I think. I kinda love Kai. And love that she loves Butchie, even though he clearly doesn't deserve it. This really is a pretty hopeful show. I mean, they've all got a road to redemption, if you will. And, it seems like the kind of show where at least most of them just might stay on it, more or less.
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All out of Deadwood. Fuck.
I know! Really didn't expect to miss it so much, since I got dragged kicking and screaming, like a whore with her monthly, to watch it in the first place. But I do. Even Swergin.(compelling cocksucker that he is and fuckin' show-stealer too. The other actors must hate him sometimes, though I think they really like McShane lots) But especially Jane, Trixie, and the Doc are my favorites.
Especially Swegin. Especially, of course, except for all the other cocksuckers.
Ganked from Matt Fraction: Nick Hornby interviews David Simon in the August issue of The Believer.
Excerpt: [link]
Money quote:
My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader.
I listened to the commentary on S1 Ep 11 the night before last, which consisted of Simon and Pelecanos talking about how they love to work in references to favored eateries and how both love working in subtle payoffs that leave the casual viewer in the dark.
Also, I feel for you, Amy. When Deadwood ran out, a little part of me died. Like a throat-slit hoople in the dark.
Dag, wanna see the rest. As well as hear "true dat" and "narco" in a Londonish accent(mos def) The part I always hated about journalism school was writing for "Joe Sixpack" come to think of it. I'm glad to know I wasn't just being an arrogant pisher thinking maybe Joe should read a fuckin' book. Or twelve. (ok, maybe it was a little arrogant.)
Baltimore has this Stoop Storytelling series that David Simon took part in a couple of month's back. I haven't heard it but know he talked a bit about the upcoming Wire season.
(Also, check out some of the other shows, like the one the latest one. My friend told a story for that one.)
Flight of the Conchords continues to be hysterical. The mermaid number had me on the floor. Also, Murray saying the word "fuck"!??!?? I was shocked.
As for John from Cinc...huh? Seriously, WTF was that? We lost Deadwood for this? We wuz robbed, and Milch has lost his fucking mind.
I admit, I still don't know WTF is going on on John from Cincinnati, but I am hooked good and proper. That there's a "they" that wants to sponsor Sean (whatever that means) and that John's father has a father but John's mother is his father (or his father is his mother, I forget which he actually said) has me all intrigued.