Okay.

I missed this, just stumbled across it while looking for the Vince Gilligan Interview. This is an interview with Cloe Sevigny on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. [link]

Thanks...I really appreciate that...I was just trying to do two things at once yesterday.

I'm 10 minute into TiVo delayed premiere of Pacific and there have been already both Caroline Dhavernas *and* William Sadler spotting. Wonderfalls reunion FTW!

I know! It made me very happy.

Erika, I haven't forgotten In Treatment, I'm just lame and haven't been to the post office yet.

I'll be starting to watch Big Love soon. Meanwhile, I stumbled across this while reading things about Antarctica (yay Internet). It's an A/V Club interview with Chloe Sevigny re the last season: [link] and another article about the backlash from the first interview: [link]

I'm printing to read later, so no comments from me. Yet.

Finished with United States of Tara. Post to follow eventually.

I *Love* Tara. I even have a fragment of a spec script, but the Entourage one has taken longer to perfect than I expected, so it's the same page that it's been for months. Toni Colette rules. And somehow John Corbett has been adorable for over fifteen years... still want to jump him, and on this show he rocks as a husband so I could bring him home to Mom, too. Love that!

John Corbett is totally amazing. Didn't I just see him advertised in something else that's starting soon?

I'm approaching half-way through Big Love. The first notable thing is that the opening sequence is new. The last one really summed up the whole philosophy of the celestial marriage: showed the main four characters searching for each other through veils, then finding each other, joining hands,and then you see them sitting at a dinner table on Planet Bill and Wives.

This year, it shows each character falling through black space separately. (How did they get those shots? Wires, fans, floaty fabric, and a black background? They look like they are up in the Vomit Comet, weightless, but that can't possibly be true.) Hands are reaching out blindly, and none of them ever connect. The music is different too, the lyrics are "home, is this my home?" reflecting a change from the certainty of the prior years. [link]

If you are at the halfway point, you haven't quite seen the show go off the rails yet.

it is coming.

It's already overloaded with storylines IMHO. In the first couple of eps, okay, not only are they opening the casino and attendant hysteria but then two of the characters have to hit someone with their car in the reservation? and THEN that person has to have a serious problem? I yi yi already.

I am really bothered by the replacement of Teeny and just went Google hunting to find out why. The prior actress grew too tall, too mature to play that age. Okay, I can live with that, although I miss Jolean Wejbe AND thought that the second shot we have of the new Teeny bordered on kiddy porn.

Interview, then a bunch of links for more stuff, interview with the showrunners in LA Times from Jan. 2010. I'm skimming it for the info I want and la-la-la-ing over other stuff: [link]

R.I.P. David Mills, writer for The Wire and Treme

As reported by NOLA.com, television writer David Mills—a college friend and later frequent collaborator with David Simon on Homicide: Life On The Streets, The Corner, and The Wire—has died of a brain aneurysm. His death comes just 11 days before the première of Treme, where he had once again been a key member of Simon’s writing staff.