Archive for January, 2008

keep those uppity characters alive!

January 9, 2008

There is much back-scratchin’ going on with sub-media (such as this joint) and mainstream media coverage of this show. We appreciate it, but we haven’t done up to the minute updates thus far. (I did enjoy, last week, Julianne Shepherd/ Cowboyz’n’Poodles’ coverage of the premiere and link to MKW’s appearance in a George Michael video)
However, [...]

Hell Is For Some of You

January 8, 2008

I don’t know how much stock to put in one errant search query that led here, or the first link that comes up when you type said query into Google. But holy fucking hell am I mad right now. I may—repeat, MAY—have just nosed my way into two enormous spoilers. So let me say this [...]

Das K.R.E.A.M.

January 7, 2008

As explained, we’re not up on #52 yet, so we now understand the woe of all you non-on-demand folks. Of course, this has been a sticking point of mine since they implemented the ludicrous rewarding of the haves and obliterated the possibility of water cooler life for the not-technologically-possible-to-haves. We fall into the latter category [...]

Hello My Friends

January 7, 2008

New shit later. For those not living the OnDemand Dream, here’s the writing for #51. Oh, and we haven’t seen #52 yet, so don’t talk about.
Pizzawhale on lady cops
Christy$$$$$ on the newsroom and others

Shoals on authenticity and eavesdropping
WHERE WILL IT END? (Shoals)

pure lust

January 4, 2008

My Abuela spent so many nights of the 1980s watching Murder She Wrote and Columbo with me at her side, not to mention some Father Dowling Mysteries and Matlock phases and whatever tawdry murder plots they worked into the novelas and the Dallas nightly news. Other kids clandestinely watched horror movies and Cinemax with [...]

Whoa-whoa-won

January 3, 2008

Ready… okay. Episode 1. I’ve got some thoughts on it. duh.
I want to start with a question that builds off Shoals’s post about the newsroom. I, for one, am pretty psyched to have the Sun and the newsroom as a big part of the plot. But I’ve always been the HH-er who likes the Carcetti [...]

The Accidental Native

January 2, 2008

It goes without saying that The Wire is a show proud of its insider authority. If there is such a thing as “realistic” in television, this is it—down to the slightest detail, the show tries to make itself resonate with the people it’s based on. Sometimes this takes the form of subtle touches, other times [...]