The TV thread

That sounds like a really bad idea, especially with Bialik as the star. I just can't see her carrying something like that.

 

We're going to give it a couple more episodes. I was actually hoping for more cats.

 

I can't determine if Bialik taking this role is more reflective of 1) how awful most sitcom scripts are in Hollywood, especially for women or 2) she's uniquely awful at picking projects or 3) if FOX just backed up the money truck to her place. I suspect it's a combination of 1 and 3.

 

Oh, god. Kill it with fire.

 

Yes - probably the best thing she was offered post-BBT. There is a book or a really interesting magazine article to be written about the state of the TV comedy. The shows you see on cable and streaming are in a different universe from those on broadcast - not just in quality, but in terms of rhythm and style. The Good Place - which I think was probably the best network comedy in a decade - never really found a sizeable audience.

 

The next storyline in season 1 has been a letdown because Kevin Spacey as unbalanced global kingpin doesn't come within a thousand miles of what Ray Sharkey brought to Sonny Steelgrave. I generally like Spacey but he was miscast for this role.

 

I started watching Community last week and the paintball episode in Season 1 is one of the best half hours of a sitcom I’ve ever seen.

It’s shot like an action movie and gives every character an arc.

 

Wait until the "Pillows and Blankets" episode.

 

So I started watching Big Sky - liked the cast and the locale - but I'm about one and half eps in and seriously wonder about the potential. Thought the morally repressed trucker was a fake, and then JC Lynch shows up and refers to his wife as "mother" and I thought - okay - obviously another fake out - but.....throw in the trashy blonde with the "smarter more sensible" sister (wearing glasses no less) - I really expected more from David E. Kelly. The two leads have potential, but they need to clean this initial mess up quickly and move on (perhaps hire a third investigator by the name of Dex Parios looking for a new gig). Though you do wonder how much of a market there is for PI services in Helena, Montana.

 

It is incredibly pulpy. If it helps you stick with the show, the current "arc" has some resolution with the current set of episodes out - it's not going to be 20 episode seasons about the weirdo trucker and sheriff - but it's definitely a level down from something legitimately good (Hannibal, True Detective) or something that's vaguely self-aware (the now cancelled Stumptown, Justified) of its pulp or camp level.

 

No one needs this, except for the actresses who have done nothing since:

'Sex and the City' Revival Confirmed at HBO Max - Variety

 

Ewww. I thought the last movie had put a stake through that franchise.