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  blue girl

  1 year ago

  "Sucks" is right in your headline! You're a total rebel.
  
  Every guy I've ever met really hated thirtysomething. I liked it -- no surprise there to anyone who *knows* me in the blogosphere. I'm a total sap.
  
  RE Mad Men
  
  Donny Deutsch Draper better get his act together.
  
  And the vile, baby-faced cad gets on my nerves. The way he talks? Please. What's up with that? Most of those women on the show should drop kick him down some hallway.
  
  Let’s have that supposedly scandalous divorcée do something really scandalous and tell the Good Wives Club to fuck off and die.
  
  I know you hate: LOL. But...LOL!
  
  She should!
  
  Great post, you hater.
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  blue girl

  1 year ago

  Whoever designed the generic avatar for newcritics is as sexist.
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  Jason Chervokas

  1 year ago

  I can't stand Mad Men. What I need out of any dramatically told story (by that a mean a story told visually in action--movies, tv, even to a degree comic books) are the classic values--character, story, and some kind of storytelling that captivates. I also prefer something that keeps it real not necessarily in the fantasy v. reality sense (I too loved the first season of Twin Peaks and I'm a comic book geek) but in terms of character movtivation--people need to be motivated by realistic emotions and need to behave at least in a manner that is internally consistent and humanly fathomable.
  
  In the a show and a half of Mad Men I've watched I've seen zero in the way of characters with any kind of development or interior lives--they're all mannequins there to display contemporaneous fashions; nothing in the way of story (did they pitch this show strictly on style?); and, w/o story, nothing in the way of story-telling (turns out you can make great drama out of very slight stories if you have great storytelling, witness Reservoir Dogs, actually witness almost all of Tarantino's movies, or Rashamon).
  
  Big Love is probably the only original series on the air at the moment that I try to watch every week. Its second season is hardly the equal of its first--the story is good, characters and actors are great, but the story telling has been a little rushed and fascile (though the show has improved throughout the season). I'm ready for the return of Heros and Curb Your Enthusiam and The Wire. But Mad Men?--what a yawn! (And my dad WAS an ad man in the early 1960s, believe me there were plenty of L7s; I tried to watch an episode w/ him over the weekend and while he waxed nostalgic over the Volkswagon "lemon" ad, he lost interest in the show's supposed plot and characters almost instantly.)
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  Kathleen Maher

  1 year ago

  It thrills me to boast that Manny and I watched "Twin Peaks" on a basement TV, back when we owned a mortgage on a house that was slanting down and left as it sank into the marshland below.
  "Twin Peaks" first episode stretched reality, but a few right after that seemed almost hyper-real. Partly what I liked about the show--the way they used the name "Bob" gave me the giggles--was the way it flipped in and out of plausibility. Was there music warning "this way weirdness comes?" I can't remember. We watched exhausted and wrapped in blankets.
  Half the time the slide away from believability matched my own tendencies well enough to make it fun. Except at the end where someone totally lost it. No matter how surreal the story, some consistency is necessary.
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  Dan Leo

  1 year ago

  Dearest Blue, I promise that my next piece will be free of the word "suck". I'm not saying the post won't suck, but at least that word won't be in it.
  
  And you're so right about the avatars (I didn't know that's what you call those foreboding shadow-men). When Tom gets back he'll have to replace them with something gender-neutral, like little puppies or kittens.
  
  Jason, it's funny, but I'm enjoying the discussion of "Mad Men", even if I do have my reservations about the show. But if things don't pick up soon, well, I dunno, I really might have to do something drastic like read a book.
  
  Good memory with the music in "Twin Peaks", Kathleen -- that was the great Angelo Badalamenti, and, yeah, there definitely were "something weird's coming" cues, not to mention, if memory serves, themes for various of the major characters. I recommend for Badalamenti fans an album he did with Marianne Faithfull, "A Secret Life".
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  Jason Chervokas

  1 year ago

  btw, I suspect the generic avatar is a MyBlogLog thing.
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  M.A.Peel

  1 year ago

  Dan, Jason, Kathleen--I hope you are brining these lively opinions into the live blogging fray tomorrow. BG is on board--
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  Tony Alva

  1 year ago

  Dan,
  
  Got the bad language waving finger from Blue Girl did ya? At least I know I'm not being singled out.
  
  Those silhouette avatars are evocative of the famed Iraqi fugitive deck of cards that apparently had a few of these faceless shadows amongst Saddam's cadre.
  
  Coincidence?
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  Lance Mannion

  1 year ago

  Twin Peaks wasn't real?
  
  Not even the pie?
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  1 year ago

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  Dogs for Sale

  1 month ago

  Interesting note. Part of these new understanding are obviously in the graphical aspect of the ad. I do agree with the comments that ads need to stand out and grab attention (much like tv ads, this counts a long way by itself).
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  Portazul

  1 month ago

  How To Make a TV Show That Doesn’t Suck (Part One) | newcritics But one does want to feel that something is going on, even if you’re not ...
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