Grid Effect

We showed up an hour late to work today and are still groggy as all hell, so we’ll leave the Generation Kill recap to this afternoon’s work. On the other hand Showtime, who now fancy themselves the new HBO, are all over the newswire, so here’s a few updates from a network that no one has.

Edie Falco has a new series coming out called Nurse Jackie. It isn’t medically focused, and my guess is it isn’t mob focused either, so people are going to be pretty confused. Supposedly she plays a women with a painkiller addiction. I can already see the bevy of Rush Limbaugh jokes thrown in to the script.

Try as she might, we don't ever see her shaking Carmela Soprano us...posting this picture of her with James Gandolfini probably doesn't help matters.

Weeds has been renewed for two more seasons, and we can’t decide if this is good or bad. This fourth season is showing promise after the train wreck that was the third, but it’s still rarely generates more than a “meh” from us after an episode. We’ll stay positive and say this is a good thing because it gives everyone involved a chance to right the ship.

Also renewed for two more seasons? Secret Diary of a Call Girl (can be found in above links). We’ve watched maybe twenty seconds of this, but with the grainy seemingly outdated camera they use, this is how we always imagined 70’s soft core porn looked. We have no idea why they cast the people they did or use the settings and ambiance they do on this series, but hey, people seem to enjoy it. Besides, at this point Showtime could renew or air anything and some hump critic somewhere is going to declare it “genius”, so why not exploit that?

Apparently The L Word is coming to an end, and we couldn’t be more indifferent. We understand it’s about a gang of homosexual women who come from another planet and set out to rule Earth, so it certainly has a niche.  But the good news for at least one cast member is the showrunner and network is considering a spin-off. Because everything is spun-off these days.

And finally, Showtime is picking up a new series entitled Lock and Load , that will be set in a gun shop. The store is located in Englewood, Colorado and will be primarily aired through hidden cameras. Which, while we like this idea, seems a bit exploitive. Not necessarily to the imbeciles who come in and cause some sort of redneck scene, but to the gun culture in general. They’re obviously going to take the most outrageous moments and put them on air, making everyone involved with gun ownership look just as insane. When the truth is, you could put hidden cameras on a cookie stand for twenty-four hours and you would be privy to a fair amount of abnormal shit as well.

Back with some news or Generation Kill recap later.