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.
Aw, man he was a genius.
And he won't ever drink fruit punch ever again.ETA: Bop Gun was in my Top Five H:LOTS, even if it did convince Robin Williams he could be a serious actor and therefore lay much plague upon the land...it also contained some great Howard moments so I think it rocks, just for being so non-gendered in its depiction of those issues. And it was very human in its refusal to pick and name a bad guy, even though Vaughn did a terrible thing.
Oh, no. How shocking and sad!
Mo Ryan from the Trib has a piece on Mills in The Watcher that features links to other tributes to him.
Can't read the Simon piece right now, because when he gets elegiac(sp?) he can make me cry like a little girl, and we're not talking Broadcast News/pollution Indian single tears, either.
It's really ugly.
Maybe after five?ETA: Too late. Sniff. But I'm still coherent because Simon was source, not commentator.
ETA2: This is really fucking stupid, but I had *no idea* Mills was black. I guess I never saw him, and his name being David instead of, say, Antoine or Terence, made me think "Oh, Jewish ex-journalist"(Not that there's anything wrong with that...he would have matched the other guys in the Pantheon of Daves if he were.)
Way to be Part of the Problem, Erika. D'oh.
Lois, I got the In Treatment disks today...thank you.ETA: Also, any of y'all Wirefiends that didn't? Rent "Brick City"...it's like a documentary Wire about Newark. It's awesome.Cory Booker was on Rachel Maddow and they showed clips so I rented the movie...it was very good.
Cereal:
Someone on my friendslist linked to this Simon profile...it's long, but good reading.
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