--- In [email protected], "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@...> wrote: > > Cool! I'm going to look for that. > > I've been watching a few TV series DVDs lately - "Curb Your Enthusiasm" by > Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld, and starring who else? A guy that just > can't get out of his own way, fingernails on a chalkboard comedy, and > "Castle", main character is a writer, teamed with his female sidekick, > Detective Beckett, solving murder cases. Very stylish and witty. > > Oh, and a comedy clearly outside all boundaries of decency and good taste, > HBO's "East Bound And Down", about a washed up foul mouthed baseball player, > with Executive Producer (and occasional guest star) Will Ferrell at his best, > given to me as a birthday present by my daughter - She said, "yeah Dad when I > saw a preview of it online, it was for you!". > > And "Burn Notice", enjoyed almost as much for the camera technique and rich > saturation of color throughout, as the rest of it. The characters are > sustainable too, especially "Lacey" from "Cagney and Lacey", who plays the > main character's wise cracking, chain smoking, mumu wearing, mom.
* * Yeah, and Fiona is great, too. But I think the device that makes "Burn Notice" work as well as it does, is definitely the voice of the Narrator. As it did also in "Wonder Years" (a very different show); sometimes narration makes all the difference, adds that extra layer of depth and lets us into the protagonist's head almost as if we were reading a book. Of course, with "Curb Your Enthusiasm, no narration is necessary; everything that passes through Larry David's mind, he speaks out loud, and therein lies much of the comedy :-)
