jz, I hope you figure it out because it would be lovely to see you on MM!
(And by the bye - there's a Mad Men "best of" 30 minute clip show playing in regular rotation on AMC this week.)
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
sumi - Jul 07, 2008 8:18:55 am PDT #945 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
sumi - Jul 07, 2008 12:12:06 pm PDT #946 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
Army Wives - made me cry again.
Wolfram - Jul 07, 2008 1:29:00 pm PDT #947 of 11998
Visilurking
Saw the Mad Men clip last night. It's cute. I particularly liked the direction of having the actors stay in costume on separate couches by gender.
Also finally watched The Middleman, and I really wanted to like it. But I didn't. Cute and campy, but not clever enough.
sumi - Jul 07, 2008 1:35:03 pm PDT #948 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
Did you watch last week's episode?
amych - Jul 07, 2008 6:40:10 pm PDT #949 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Continuing the MM mainlining. Have stopped for the night at the Hobo Code. Gawd, what a perfect painful ep. Also, didn't notice the first time through how perfectly monochrome Roger always is, aside from his bright red drinkin' face -- he wears white shirts, white underwear, black or gray suits, gray or black suits, drinks milk (spiked!) or martinis, eats oysters.
DavidS - Jul 07, 2008 7:04:34 pm PDT #950 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
We just got the Madmen set. Couldn't resist the packaging, plus the series is the best thing since the Wire went off the air.
I can't fucking believe HBO passed on it. That really completely and totally boggles me. That's HBO's jump the shark moment. Because they had that talent in-house and it was a perfect series for them. It could've been their post-Sopranos tent pole.
If they were smart they'd give Tim a series. He'd do such an awesome HBO series.
Hayden - Jul 07, 2008 8:09:00 pm PDT #951 of 11998
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That's HBO's jump the shark moment.
Nossir, I disagree. Killing Deadwood's 4th season was when the shark jump happened.
DavidS - Jul 07, 2008 9:03:05 pm PDT #952 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Nossir, I disagree. Killing Deadwood's 4th season was when the shark jump happened.
Fair point. And Rome right after. It's like they forgot what worked.
le nubian - Jul 08, 2008 2:41:21 am PDT #953 of 11998
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Did they kill Deadwood? I thought the creator didn't want to do a 4th season.
amych - Jul 08, 2008 3:45:50 am PDT #954 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
HBO announced that they weren't planning to pick up people's contracts, and then as a followup offer, they offered a 6-episode season, which Milch wasn't interested in doing. There's a lot of bitterness in his last commentary on S3 about how unfinished the stories are -- he had a part in the stalemate, certainly, but it doesn't sound to me like he didn't want to do any more.