Yeah...gave me a craving, though, damn it.
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Experimental TV: Cable Drama
This thread is an experiment to discern the Buffistas' interests in television discussion. It will be closed on June 1st, 2007, after which our community will engage in creative discourse about the future direction of our boards. This is the thread for cable aired drama. All discussion must be in whitefont, with the name of the show upfront, for 24 hours after the show airs, presumably in the US. No future spoilers in thread (take those to the spoiler thread for serious ones or spoilers light for casting type info).
erikaj - May 20, 2007 11:20:57 am PDT #112 of 129
Always Anti-fascist!
sj - May 20, 2007 2:25:36 pm PDT #113 of 129
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow?
I keep hoping that we'll find out more about the real Riches and what they were like. I keep thinking that there is a good reason that they bought a house sight unseen, like maybe they were running from something too.
Sean K - May 20, 2007 2:35:37 pm PDT #114 of 129
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
They certainly seem to have hinted at things along that line more than once.
The situation as it stands now is very tenuous. They keep staying and pretending to be the Riches because there's some decent reasons to do so, but it's still unclear if those outweigh the reasons to just jump in the RV and run. And the family seems pretty evenly spilt on the issue as well -- Wayne and Didi are for staying, Cael and Dahlia would rather go, and Sam is, of course, ambiguous. It's all part of what's So. Damned. Engrossing. about this show.
Now that they have another season, I'd argue that the two most compelling things they could do next season are to 1) do something to make it difficult for them to stop being the Riches, and 2) give them a reason to not want to be the Riches anymore (dirty secrets they were running from, as sj suggests).
sj - May 20, 2007 2:51:11 pm PDT #115 of 129
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
How many episodes of The Riches are there going to be this season?
Sean K - May 20, 2007 3:15:41 pm PDT #116 of 129
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think it's a thirteen ep run, and there's only a couple left. The one tomorrow night, and two more.
sumi - May 23, 2007 4:37:47 pm PDT #117 of 129
Art Crawl!!!
While I was watching "How Not to Decorate" (Must See if you have BBCA) - they ran a promo for their new schedule. It looks really good.
Some sort of police procedural on Mondays, MI-5 on Tuesdays, Footballer's Wives on Wednesday (trashy Wednesdays?), Kitchen Nightmares on Thursdays, Murder Mysteries on Fridays, Hex on Saturday and Robin Hood (season 2? Repeat of season 1?) on Sundays.
sumi - May 28, 2007 6:05:56 pm PDT #118 of 129
Art Crawl!!!
The Riches: we must be getting close to the season finale because uh - it looks like the shit is going to hit the fan.
Waking the Dead: Interesting if confusing episode.
Sean K - May 28, 2007 6:28:08 pm PDT #119 of 129
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have thoughts on last week's Riches, but they will wait until after I see tonight's episode.
Sean K - May 29, 2007 6:25:27 am PDT #120 of 129
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Man, The Riches cuts right to the bone, doesn't it? Especially Dahlia. Last week's was good, but this week's might be one of the best so far. More comments tomorrow night, after the wait period.
(And talk about timing! We'll be able to talk about the finale, just before the thread closes down forever)
sj - May 30, 2007 5:24:21 pm PDT #121 of 129
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The last two weeks of the Riches have been excellent. I can't even imagine how they are going to wrap all of this up next week. The only problem I am having with it is believing that Dale is smart enough to have a real plan. His characterization before this has always seemed to be act first think later.