For the no longer nascent group of people who take sitcoms very seriously, declaring the moment’s best is an incessant burden. This is partly what makes Happy Endings so frustrating – it’s super hilarious but doesn’t feel like the best. As a wildly funny show without perspective, it doesn’t feel like anything. It’s the proprietor of television’s most enjoyable thirty minutes but is that enough? Can a show be television’s best sitcom without having a point-of-view?
Please Watch and Love and Talk About the Best Friends Forever Pilot. Thank You
If you haven’t already watched the pilot for Best Friends Forever, which has been streaming online for the last week, I doubt you were planning on tuning in a week from tonight at 8:30 when it airs on NBC. Please read the following sentence very carefully: You should watch and watch it hard. Don’t have it on in the background whilst cutting onions because your lachrymal glands will become irritated and tears will obstruct your viewing. Watch it like you […]
AMC is Advertising Television’s Best and Worst Show at the Same Time
In his conversation with the New York Times, Mad Men’s Svengali, Matthew Weiner, described what he referred to as AMC’s “growing pains.” Since Mad Men’s debut, and with addition of Breaking Bad, AMC has had to come to terms with being a network not simply a channel. Nowhere is that more clear than on a stroll along any Brooklyn or lower Manhattan Subway platform. Separated by an ad for American Pie 4: This Time It’s Pie-sonal and something called […]