Both the wife and I started hating it mere moments into the pilot and we decided to not go back. Full of unpleasant characters (and what is it with that being a thing? I find Jill Soloway's shows unwatchable because of it), actors playing unfunny comedians badly, and lousy writing (when eve Robert Foster can't make something work, the problem is with the material, not the performers), I haven't looked back.
I completely agree on the self-importance thing, especially Melissa Leo, an actress I adored on "Homicide," but whom I've found insufferable since she won the Oscar. --Dave Sikula On Monday, June 26, 2017 at 7:05:08 AM UTC-7, PGage wrote: > I wonder if anyone here is watching this. I caught up with it over the > last week, and keep getting reminded of David Milch's "John from > Cincinnati". Nothing of course could make me as predisposed to be irritated > with a show as it being responsible (in my mind at least) for the end of > Deadwood, but I do get the same hit of irritation. There seem to be > talented people invovled in the project, but they all seem hyper-aware of > how important and profound they are supposed to be being, and clueless > about how banal and boring they actually are being. Its worse too in that > while I don't care about surfing, I do care this. > > The show is based of course on the book by Knoedelseder. It is a > factionalized account, which I guess was to allow them to embellish and > make it more interesting without worrying about lawsuits, but instead > encouraged them to overshoot and try to make it a metaphor, instead of just > telling what is already an interesting story (though perhaps already > frequently enough told) > > Here is Knoedelseder on Dave talking about the book, which just makes me > wish it was him and not Jim Carrey invovled in the Showtime series: > https://youtu.be/Hyr6LqBkNQM > > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
