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637 notes | 16/12/2011 | Reblogged from moviestvandothershit | Permalink
Bill Hicks would have turned 50 today.  I may have heard all of his material many times, but it still amazes me and makes me wish he was still around to comment on the world we live in. Photo: Variance Films.

Bill Hicks would have turned 50 today.  I may have heard all of his material many times, but it still amazes me and makes me wish he was still around to comment on the world we live in.

Photo: Variance Films.

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Nerd research on Google Maps… To me, Six feet Under is the best TV show ever made.  There is one episode that I don’t like, and that isn’t because it’s bad. The episode in question (‘That’s my Dog’, Season 4) disrupted the whole flow and feel of the show; but that was the point.  Although I don’t like the episode itself, it’s content is very important and laid the foundations for various events in Season 5.  The finale was flawless - it summed up the entire show in a few short and perfect moments (when Nate disappears in Claire’s rear-view mirror, I get a lump in my throat). The Sopranos is always cited as ‘the best’.  Although there isn’t a single episode that is bad there are dozens of moments that are. Two such moments occur in Season 6 - nancy Sinatra serenades Phil Leotardo when he becomes boss (cringe worthy), and the Finale.  Ending arguably the best TV show ever in that way was extremely lazy. Yes, he probably got wacked, and yes, it ties in with an earlier conversation with bobby (of which we get a flash-back), but it still doesn’t work for me. A finale needs to do more than make people theorise. Deadwood deserves a mention, as the writing was remarkable.  But, it was never played out as HBO cancelled it after the 3rd season leaving it very open ended. Carnivale met the same fate.  And while The Wire was completed, I think it just got silly in Season 5 when a serial killer was fabricated to obtain more budget from the city. Losing Stringer Bell as early as they did was foolish, and I would liked to have had Omar live on.  In fact, the end of Season 1 would have been a perfect final scene in Season 5…

Nerd research on Google Maps…

To me, Six feet Under is the best TV show ever made.  There is one episode that I don’t like, and that isn’t because it’s bad. The episode in question (‘That’s my Dog’, Season 4) disrupted the whole flow and feel of the show; but that was the point.  Although I don’t like the episode itself, it’s content is very important and laid the foundations for various events in Season 5.  The finale was flawless - it summed up the entire show in a few short and perfect moments (when Nate disappears in Claire’s rear-view mirror, I get a lump in my throat).

The Sopranos is always cited as ‘the best’.  Although there isn’t a single episode that is bad there are dozens of moments that are. Two such moments occur in Season 6 - nancy Sinatra serenades Phil Leotardo when he becomes boss (cringe worthy), and the Finale.  Ending arguably the best TV show ever in that way was extremely lazy. Yes, he probably got wacked, and yes, it ties in with an earlier conversation with bobby (of which we get a flash-back), but it still doesn’t work for me. A finale needs to do more than make people theorise.

Deadwood deserves a mention, as the writing was remarkable.  But, it was never played out as HBO cancelled it after the 3rd season leaving it very open ended. Carnivale met the same fate.  And while The Wire was completed, I think it just got silly in Season 5 when a serial killer was fabricated to obtain more budget from the city. Losing Stringer Bell as early as they did was foolish, and I would liked to have had Omar live on.  In fact, the end of Season 1 would have been a perfect final scene in Season 5…

22/09/2010 | Permalink
Sunday night’s premiere of HBOs Boardwalk Empire was… ASTOUNDING. It reportedly cost $50M for pilot alone, and everything about it makes me believe that.  It’s no surprise that HBO spent big, as they have been looking for ‘the next Sopranos’ for a few years. AMC found it in Mad Men, so HBO found the next Sopranos and the next Mad Men in one; a period piece in the gangster genre. Obviously Steve Buscemi is flawless. At least in mainstream terms, he is criminally underrated.  But it’s Michael Kenneth Williams who I am most interested in.  He already played Omar in The Wire, who is regarded by anyone with any sense as one of the best characters in anything ever… How is he going to follow that?

Sunday night’s premiere of HBOs Boardwalk Empire was… ASTOUNDING.

It reportedly cost $50M for pilot alone, and everything about it makes me believe that.  It’s no surprise that HBO spent big, as they have been looking for ‘the next Sopranos’ for a few years. AMC found it in Mad Men, so HBO found the next Sopranos and the next Mad Men in one; a period piece in the gangster genre.

Obviously Steve Buscemi is flawless. At least in mainstream terms, he is criminally underrated.  But it’s Michael Kenneth Williams who I am most interested in.  He already played Omar in The Wire, who is regarded by anyone with any sense as one of the best characters in anything ever… How is he going to follow that?

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