For Albert Brooks fans
If you're really into Albert Brooks, Saturday Night Live, season 1, features short films by Brooks, before he started making features. Now rentable.
If you're really into Albert Brooks, Saturday Night Live, season 1, features short films by Brooks, before he started making features. Now rentable.
Great interview on Fresh Air today.
So the Star Trek reboot is good, they say. I will certainly see it, but word of the new film's disregard for certain key plot points from the 40-year history written into previous shows and movies has definitely made me less inclined to commit myself utterly to the fictional universe that I had previously given, oh, hundreds of hours over 35 years to.
And that, my friends, is why I'm officially a dork.
I loved "In Treatment" last year, and this season is just as good. Each episode unfolds like a one-act play, but still manages to build on what's come before.
Listen to Gabriel Byrne talk about his role in the show as well as his entire career, on Fresh Air.
Pretty interesting chick. Liberal Christian gay rights supporter who got in trouble with fans for going on the "700 Club." Interviewed by Terri Gross on Fresh Air.
I was this close to giving up on HBO. But "In Treatment" is returning, and I thought that was top-notch.
"Lost" is not exactly a masterpiece, but as a writer I do find its byzantine plot compelling enough that the show's got me hooked. I am also fascinated by how the writers must now attempt to fill in the seemingly bottomless hole they dug themselves into the first few years. Now that's pressure, trying to tie up all the loose ends of what at one point was surely a story spun with all the foresight of a Bush administration crisis management plan. (And for anyone who says they had a master blueprint from the start, I have some AAA-rated securitized sub-prime mortgage bonds to sell you.)
Here's a rough list of all the mysteries, large and small, they have to solve and explain in a satisfying enough way that a fan-based lynch mob doesn't develop. It strikes me that if you don't know the show, these will sound like the rantings of a lunatic.
Either all of these questions will be answered in the 40 or so episodes left, or I believe - and if this comes off a little strong, you'll let me know - the writers should be put to death.
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I thought the series finale of "Battlestar Galactica" was terrific. Ambiguous but not too, spiritual but not really, if you think about that line of Baltar's: "It doesn''t like to be called that."
That's pretty brilliant. There's a God, but he/she/it is just an entity experimenting with creating life forms to see how they end up. Nicely done.
Here's an interview with series creator Ron Moore, answering some questions people might have about what the frak happened.
Certainly the best sci-fi TV show ever, and that includes the numerous iterations of "Star Trek."
Fans of the show will no doubt remember Kenley, who is now in trouble with the law after attacking her boyfriend with a cat. (Maybe it was a challenge from Heidi: Create a men's shirt using fur. )