On 11/23/2011 05:50 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > I must admit that it's grown increasingly painful to watch > "Enlightened" each week. In a way watching Laura Dern's > character of Amy is like having to suffer through the > cluelessness and inappropriateness of Zooey Deschanel's > character on "New Girl" each week, but without Zooey's > adorableness. Amy is just grating. Horrifically so. But > at least Dern seems to know that's the case. > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/laura-dern-enlightened_n_1108037.html?ref=religion > > She doesn't mention TM, for those who think that's the > only valid reason to ever read an interview with a movie > or TV star. If you were watching the series, you'd under- > stand why that's a good thing. If her character of Amy > came to be associated with the word "enlightenment," > spiritual groups would have to stop using it. :-)
Figured it would become less and less your "cuppa tea." I find it mildly amusing though verging into the "for chicks only" audience. I was wondering why if all the episodes were in the can a year ago why it took so long to air. Probably HBO execs had qualms about it too which would mean they actually watched some episodes for a change rather than just look at the "over nights." Of course in the "over nights" it isn't fairing very well: http://www.avclub.com/articles/ratings-roundup-whats-it-take-for-hbo-to-cancel-a,63803/ I'm sorting out my viewing habits because having access to so much of great quality films vs contrived TV shows the latter is beginning to wear on me. My Thanksgiving movie may be "Amigo" which is John Sayles latest and available on Vudu. Depends on how Thanksgiving goes as it is 40 miles away at my nephew's house. I also watched "Super 8" on Bluray last night. It's the "rental version" with no extras but I will probably sit on returning it until Saturday so the next new release in my queue has a chance of arriving on Tuesday rather than months from now. I thought "Super 8" was entertaining and a good homage to 80's films. And with NF and these "timing" issues I've considering dropping the disc rental. I'm paying for Bluray but had a run of older films that were only on DVD. They should consider a credit if most of the queue winds up being DVD than Bluray.
