I still haven't seen the most recent episode of the Riches, but the show continues to astound me. It's full of deep, many layered comments on how we're all lying and faking it to some degree or another.
And with each new episode, I'm delighted at how often Eddie's standup winds up informing the plot, characters, themes and dialog. He's just infused through the whole show. I know, he's credited as an Executive Transvestite Producer, so by virtue of that alone he's given a lot of influence over the show, but he seems to haven taken the opportunity to really explore and run with it.
Also, Eddie's USian accent is getting better, as I thought it might, with practice (and probably dialect coaching).
Yeah, that's such a strong and valid theme. We're all pretending to be people. We all make our living by conning people to a certain extent. We tell them the portion of the truth that they want to hear. We show them the portion of ourselves that we think they'll like. We try to get them to believe that they need or want us or what we provide.
Their family's struggle to be accepted in Edenfalls, to balance what they're trying to be with what they feel they are, with their identity and sense of self, it's all universal.
Argh. I tried to tape Hustle last night and TOTALLY screwed it up. Does AMC repeat it any other time during the week?
Did anyone else watch
Jericho,
last night?
Sorry, this isn't the thread for Jericho!
(I thought I'd posted about it -- but it's over in the network drama thread.)
Does AMC repeat it any other time during the week?
Doesn't look like it, sumi. I recorded t and haven't watched it yet, if you want to see it.
I do want to see it, but given that I haven't watched my tape from last week. I can wait a bit!
I'll hold onto it in case you want it. Assuming I watch it anytime soon, myself. Last week's was okay but didn't really fill me with excitement for the rest of the season.
I got to watch it last night. Mr. Jane and I used to try to catch it all the time, but then something happened and we couldn't find it anymore. Which is a long way of saying, "What happened to Mickey?"
