Parents Television Council (PTC) is one of those organization obsessing with stupid things and thinking it’s the end of the world when a breast appears during the Superbowl or shit like that. Recently, they released a new study - hilariously called “HAPPILY NEVER AFTER - How Hollywood Favors Adultery and Promiscuity Over Marital Intimacy on Prime Time Broadcast Television” - which could be sum up like that : There isn’t enough sex on TV.
Okay, marital sex, to be precise. Still, we need more sex on TV is their point, I think.
But really, such studies are a complete waste of time & money in my opinion, and it’s not this latest one that’s gonna help things. Many things are wrong with it, and I won’t go over everything because I don’t really feel like wasting my time or yours on this, but I just want to address a couple of things, still, because it’s like the kind of shit it’s so stupid it’s funny.
(S01E05) Brand new episode of this Canadian series, and as always it opens right in the middle of the action before “flashbacking” to a little earlier, before anything started. Where do we open this new episode ? Let me guess, there are guns involved and one way or another it’s some kind of new hostage situation… I know I’ve said this before, but I feel this is starting to be a little of a very noticeable flaw in this show : every episode is quite the same in that way.
Of course it’s a strong show and every episode has been pretty good so far, so there’s no real reason to seriously complain I guess, and the whole point of the show is to see the team react to such tense situation and specifically trying to resolve it without violence and opening fire, but by talking and negotiating.
And this week this is what it was all about, of course, and as always it was very well done.
It’s Wednesday again, and that means there’s one thing you don’t want to miss tonight, at 10.30 on Comedy Central, a new Lewis Black’s Root Of All Evil !
They bragged about their new pilot-less process, ordering at least 6 episodes of new series from a script, without “bothering” by first having a pilot episode shot; they also love to say how they go international by co-producing series with other companies; not to mention how they love advertisers and are now asking them for lists of products, then ordering the creative minds to come up with new episodes or series to sell the stuff.
Clearly NBC is trying to innovate, or at least do anything they can think of to show they’re trying, they’re really trying, I’m not sure what it is exactly they’re trying to do, I’m not even sure they do, but they try hard, they never stop trying.
It’s possible I’m a pessimist, it’s possible I have this tendency to hate NBC, anything goes, but the more I read about what’s going on at NBC the more I think it’s not gonna be good, at all. And what really saddens me in this, is that I have a bunch of shows I love which just happen to be on NBC, hence my worries.
(S01E04) I guess the question for me at this point isn’t so much about this episode, but the show in general. It was a new series, it could have been interesting so I tuned in to check it out. And I know it’s only been four episodes, that’s really not much, but it’s enough for me to see that I don’t think this show will be what I first thought it might be, or look like, and that what it’s shaping up to be might not be something I’m interested in.
I’ve said before that while we were sold on the idea that Banks was the savior, the one who helped people kicking out addiction, he was only finding them, “kidnapping” them and driving them to the nearest rehab center. That hasn’t really changed, and quite frankly I don’t find that very exciting. Also, it was meant to be addictions, all kinds of addictions, but so far it’s only drugs.
Sure, you got your speed, your crack, your cocaine, your heroin, there’s lots of different kind of drugs out there, with different kinds of addictions. Still, it’s always the same, more than you think.
(S04E08) Last week I didn’t had some nice words for this show, and I stand by it. Last season it was the same, at first during a few episodes I thought we had an interesting situation, a starting point from which something, something new/different from what’s been done previous seasons, something good could be done. And it was with regret that I saw the season fade away into depressing boredom to end up having me convinced it had been the worst season to date.
This season had its fresh start, a brand new start in another place with new people, everything was new and it was a chance to start out fresh and be exciting again. I had serious doubt about the whole thing after reading about it, but after the first few episodes I had hopes again… How silly of me, because since then it’s all been crushed again, and we’re back to an horrible sensation of waste, waste of good ideas, waste of possibly interesting situations, waste of funny characters, and as a result waste of my time.
Unfortunately, this week only confirmed those feelings.
We already had a little preview when he was caught there, now it’s time for the official report.
You may know him from his appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, or because you met him at a Star Wars movie premiere, or more recently at Comic-Con 2008. If you don’t know him, Triumph The Insult Comic Dog is just that, an insult comic dog (mastered by Robert Smigel), and he’s freaking hilarious!
Here’s his brilliant report from this year’s Comic-Con :
By fred | August 8, 2008 
Parents Television Council (PTC) is one of those organization obsessing with stupid things and thinking it’s the end of the world when a breast appears during the Superbowl or shit like that. Recently, they released a new study - hilariously called “HAPPILY NEVER AFTER - How Hollywood Favors Adultery and Promiscuity Over Marital Intimacy on Prime Time Broadcast Television” - which could be sum up like that : There isn’t enough sex on TV.
(S01E05) Brand new episode of this Canadian series, and as always it opens right in the middle of the action before “flashbacking” to a little earlier, before anything started. Where do we open this new episode ? Let me guess, there are guns involved and one way or another it’s some kind of new hostage situation… I know I’ve said this before, but I feel this is starting to be a little of a very noticeable flaw in this show : every episode is quite the same in that way.
They bragged about their new pilot-less process, ordering at least 6 episodes of new series from a script, without “bothering” by first having a pilot episode shot; they also love to say how they go international by co-producing series with other companies; not to mention how they love advertisers and are now asking them for lists of products, then ordering the creative minds to come up with new episodes or series to sell the stuff.
(S01E04) I guess the question for me at this point isn’t so much about this episode, but the show in general. It was a new series, it could have been interesting so I tuned in to check it out. And I know it’s only been four episodes, that’s really not much, but it’s enough for me to see that I don’t think this show will be what I first thought it might be, or look like, and that what it’s shaping up to be might not be something I’m interested in.
(S04E08) Last week I didn’t had some nice words for this show, and I stand by it. Last season it was the same, at first during a few episodes I thought we had an interesting situation, a starting point from which something, something new/different from what’s been done previous seasons, something good could be done. And it was with regret that I saw the season fade away into depressing boredom to end up having me convinced it had been the worst season to date.
