Monday Links
Slow, restful weekend for yours truly. Here are some weeks to commence my new found energy:
Here’s an article from the Chicago Tribune comparing (what I am prone to do) The Wire and Friday Night Lights. Only the writer believes FNL is the more poignant of the series. In terms of narrative craft, maybe she’s right. But based on subject matter alone I will never concede it. One’s contemporary smalltown life the other about urban decay and human despair. If both stories are told impeccably, the latter will always get the nod from me.
FOX has given Nip Tuck creator a fifteen million dollar incentive package… so I guess the series is still drawing in ratings. Americans love them so organ thieves.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett are producing a series about attractive single mothers entitled, MILF and Cookies. I really hope the creators of the American Pie franchise have the copyrights to that acronym. Something tells me that if you make movies that inane then you arde probably not too knowledgeable on copyright law.
Scrubs is turning into Desperate Housewives. So which series is this an insult to?
Paula Abdul said she never drinks but does take perscription drugs. Is she trying to pass this off as some sort of restraint? Isn’t the fact that she never drinks caused by the fact that she takes perscription drugs? I’m confused.
If you had any hopes of Extras returning for a third season, Ricky Gervais would like to tell you to piss off, you fucking wanker. Maybe he doesn’t denounce the possibility in those exact words, but he does infer that the chances are slim to none.
Speaking of which, I’ll have my recap of the (apparent) series finale of Extras posted later today.
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