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Some thoughts on the comedy block the other night...

Anger Management. What a hot mess. Clunky, awkward, amateur and so bad it's almost a satire of all the worst things a standard network sitcom represents...yet, for some reason there is a little something that made me not hate it, not turn it off. Cannot for the life of me explain it other than Charlie Sheen is the Devil. That's the only explanation.

Wilfred, I dunno. Left me a lttle cold. And I loved this show last season. Hopefully it was just a duff episode but it felt kind of 'been there, done that' and had that less than fresh feeling.

Louie...was kind of the same. Yet I didn't mind so much. It was almost stream of consciousness and just so odd at times that you kind of just go with it. The construction car smash(as if it were perfectly natural), the Italian/Parisian music & feel while he was riding(btw...any Eddie Izzard fans thinking 'Ciao' during that scene?) and the wtf moment when you find out Louie's ex is Puerto Rican(?) and they have 2 of the whitest children ever. I think EW and others are getting a little carried away...but I am glad for Louis' success. Seems a good guy and toiled hard for a long time.

Sorry, still haven't watched the Russell Brand show but I am not hearing good things.
 
jerseydevil said:
Louie...was kind of the same. Yet I didn't mind so much. It was almost stream of consciousness and just so odd at times that you kind of just go with it. The construction car smash(as if it were perfectly natural), the Italian/Parisian music & feel while he was riding(btw...any Eddie Izzard fans thinking 'Ciao' during that scene?) and the wtf moment when you find out Louie's ex is Puerto Rican(?) and they have 2 of the whitest children ever. I think EW and others are getting a little carried away...but I am glad for Louis' success. Seems a good guy and toiled hard for a long time
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I only watched this one, so it's the only one I can comment on, but I generally felt the same. I thought the part where he was riding through New York on the bike felt very much like an old French movie to me. With the music and the way some of it was shot. It was very different. I heard an interview with him on NPR a couple weeks ago where he talked some about how he's really interested in the technical aspects of filming, like cinematography and lighting and such and I'm wondering if he's experimenting or...? I don't know.

I liked the episode, but I do agree that the way so much of the media seems to be sucking his dick is kind of... awkward. Though I do love reading interviews he does, so I'm ok with it. I stood in Target this weekend and read the entire EW piece. Good read.
 
jerseydevil said:
Some thoughts on the comedy block the other night...

Anger Management. What a hot mess. Clunky, awkward, amateur and so bad it's almost a satire of all the worst things a standard network sitcom represents...yet, for some reason there is a little something that made me not hate it, not turn it off. Cannot for the life of me explain it other than Charlie Sheen is the Devil. That's the only explanation.

Wilfred, I dunno. Left me a lttle cold. And I loved this show last season. Hopefully it was just a duff episode but it felt kind of 'been there, done that' and had that less than fresh feeling.

Louie...was kind of the same. Yet I didn't mind so much. It was almost stream of consciousness and just so odd at times that you kind of just go with it. The construction car smash(as if it were perfectly natural), the Italian/Parisian music & feel while he was riding(btw...any Eddie Izzard fans thinking 'Ciao' during that scene?) and the wtf moment when you find out Louie's ex is Puerto Rican(?) and they have 2 of the whitest children ever. I think EW and others are getting a little carried away...but I am glad for Louis' success. Seems a good guy and toiled hard for a long time.

Sorry, still haven't watched the Russell Brand show but I am not hearing good things.
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You pretty much nailed it with Anger Management. I felt like the show runners wanted to put Sheen in an easy role similar to Two and a Half Men. Sounds silly but it simply felt like the same show with even worse supporting characters and terrible writing.
 
adgy-san said:
I only watched this one, so it's the only one I can comment on, but I generally felt the same. I thought the part where he was riding through New York on the bike felt very much like an old French movie to me. With the music and the way some of it was shot. It was very different. I heard an interview with him on NPR a couple weeks ago where he talked some about how he's really interested in the technical aspects of filming, like cinematography and lighting and such and I'm wondering if he's experimenting or...? I don't know.

I liked the episode, but I do agree that the way so much of the media seems to be sucking his dick is kind of... awkward. Though I do love reading interviews he does, so I'm ok with it. I stood in Target this weekend and read the entire EW piece. Good read.
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I thought the best part of Louie last week was his standup in the beginning of the show and talking about when he gets old and getting a penis transplant much like chicks get "new boobs." I hated seeing his Infinity get trashed. But that is Louie, right?
 
lagwagon0 said:
You pretty much nailed it with Anger Management. I felt like the show runners wanted to put Sheen in an easy role similar to Two and a Half Men. Sounds silly but it simply felt like the same show with even worse supporting characters and terrible writing.
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But...I didn't stop watching it...I am still trying to come to grips with that in my mind.
 
Creator Bruce Helford ANGER MANAGEMENT Interview

Interesting interview. The mechanics of the show(the 10/90 pick up, the shooting schedule) are certainly interesting. I just want to save this for when Sheen goes #10 again and starts a war with this guy so you can see the contrast. Like I have said previously, it's a terrible show bordering on parody, but I can't seem to not watch.
 
Last night's episode of Louie was pretty good, I thought. Great cameo by Melissa Leo. Totally did not expect it to go where it did.
 
jerseydevil said:
the wtf moment when you find out Louie's ex is Puerto Rican(?) and they have 2 of the whitest children ever.
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Not as uncommon with mixed race children as you might think. Especially when you're talking Puerto Ricans who have all sorts of blood in them. I've personally only known two Puerto Ricans in my life, and they were both blue-eyed blondes.

I read in that review you linked that this season Louie doesn't really pick up steam until the third episode, so we'll see.
 
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santiclaws said:
Not as uncommon with mixed race children as you might think. Especially when you're talking Puerto Ricans who have all sorts of blood in them. I've personally only known two Puerto Ricans in my life, and they were both blue-eyed blondes.

I read in that review you linked that this season Louie doesn't really pick up steam until the third episode, so we'll see.
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I was just taken aback. Having lived in Jersey I can honestly say I never saw any fishbelly white/blonde/blue eyed Puerto Ricans...or maybe I did, just didn't realize it. Mind...blown.
 
oh man...BrandX with Russell Brand is HOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIBBBBBBBLE. Take one add englishman trying way too hard, stand him in front of the worst audience ever(they told the crickets to be quiet), toss in a keyboard playing harvard grad political analyst(what? wait what?) to try to turn Brand's incoherent ramblings into some semblance of a political point...and you have a horrible mess of flaming garbage fire proportions. Wow. Almost a spectacular fail.
 
jerseydevil said:
oh man...BrandX with Russell Brand is HOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIBBBBBBBLE. Take one add englishman trying way too hard, stand him in front of the worst audience ever(they told the crickets to be quiet), toss in a keyboard playing harvard grad political analyst(what? wait what?) to try to turn Brand's incoherent ramblings into some semblance of a political point...and you have a horrible mess of flaming garbage fire proportions. Wow. Almost a spectacular fail.
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I made it about 5 min before I had to change the channel
 
American Horror Story: The Complete First Season Blu-ray

Fox's three-disc Blu-ray set presents Season Three in its 1.78:1 broadcast aspect ratio with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio tracks. The set also contains the following supplements:

Commentary on the pilot episode by Ryan Murphy
The Murder House presented by Eternal Darkness Tours of Hollywood
Behind-the-scenes featurettes:
Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
On the Set of American Horror Story Season One
Overture to Horror: Creating the Title Sequence
Out of the Shadows: Meet the House Ghosts

American Horror Story: The Complete First Season streets on September 25th.
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I haven't seen the first season of Wilfred but I did watch the first 2 episodes of this season. The second episode was light years funnier than the first episode IMO and since I love Allison Mack I have the DVR set to tune in for awhile. It's scary that the Anger Management car wreck in part of a comedy block with this show(along with Louie that I've never seen.)
 
lagwagon0 said:
I haven't seen the first season of Wilfred but I did watch the first 2 episodes of this season. The second episode was light years funnier than the first episode IMO and since I love Allison Mack I have the DVR set to tune in for awhile. It's scary that the Anger Management car wreck in part of a comedy block with this show(along with Louie that I've never seen.)
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The first season of Wilfred worked better simply because most of the interaction was between Ryan and Wilfred completely alone. This season they seem to want to expand that boundary and it's thrown me a bit.
I will be the first of many to tell you you should watch Louie. It's unlike anything else on tv. Almost anti-tv.
And I simply have no words to explain why I watch Anger Management. Although I think the hold that Sheen has on me is wearing off.
 
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