Grid Effect

Well, she’s not exactly George Jung, but after episodes “The Whole Blah Damn Thing” and “Lady’s A Charm” were working our way there. I guess the attempts to make our favorite MLIF look even remotely sympathetic are over, but I’m not sure if the writers understand that. They still seem to be forcing the “poor old unfortunate hot widow” thing, and it doesn’t really fit the context of the story or her behavior anymore. She is now willingly working for criminally violent gangbangers and will no doubt unwittingly play a hand in the murder of several rival gangbangers. Whatever, it’s just collateral damage so the Botwin’s can live somewhere and not have to work.

I’m sure at some point they will have Andy attempt to justify this in one of his rants. Something along the lines of they will find another lacky to smuggle their drugs for them, she’s just profiting off the inevitable. Which is all fine and well and I understand this is a satire, But the tone of the series seems to almost encourage her participation instead of just begrudgingly accept it as a virtually harmless reality.

I just want to make it clear that I’m not morally outraged. No, I’m simply annoyed that the series couldn’t seem to grow within their given confines. This is like if Tony Soprano had up and moved south to sell pots in Peru like he often referenced, or if Tommy Gavin had stayed with Sheila at the beach house. If either of these series made those changes it would be a complete upheaval from what we were accustom too, and most likely piss off viewers something fierce. We want to see Those two getting into as much shit as possible, not meandering around casually and comfortably while life happens in lieu of them.

As our way of making amends for being out of service, here’s Mary-Louise Parker’s naked, digitally enhanced ass. Enjoy.

This is probably in step with the ever changing genre of the series, which is now the lightest dark comedy of all time. So far, the punchlines have involved illegal immigration, “dead Iraqi children”, prison rape, euthanasia and parental absenteeism. If it wasn’t already prefaced as a comedy, it wouldn’t exactly be a barrel of laughs. Again, not terrible, but in almost stark contrast to everything we’ve come to like about the series.

Still, we get a lot of enjoyment out of watching Justin Kirk interact with Albert Brooks, and we’re ecstatic that Kevin Nealon will be joining the Botwins in their sleepy coastal town. We’re just going to accept the fact that the series is completely different from when it was set in Agrestic. Which is fine, we were growing tired of Majestic and welcome the change. I just wish the series creators would recognize that fact and quit teetering between what was and what will be.

Extremely busy at work today, we’ll try to get a post up about the mini Rescue Me episodes if possible. Hence why we guaranteed multiple postings for the tomorrow, not today.