The TV thread

If *fraternization* was illegal in Chicago, I would have already served 20 years of my sentence.

 

I binged Quiet on the Set and it made me mad and sad and feel like I was doing ETR work again. One of the sad facts is that abusers were more often than not abused when they were young. Some start flipping the script within a year.

When my nephew was in Nick and Teen Disney's demo, I kept a close eye on the television. He saw a lot more of Penn and Teller than he did Drake and Josh and Zack and Cody and... We made exceptions for The Adventures of Pete and Pete (which I still think is flippin' brilliant) and limited viewing of All That for the very good turns by Keenan, Kel, and Amanda WhateverTheirLastNamesWere.

 

Pete and Pete is definitely a classic. Amazing, bittersweet feel to it. Great casting, locales.

 

Initially, there was a kind of "realistic" sheen to many of the Nickelodeon sitcoms, whereas Disney always felt way too shiny and glossy to me (excluding stuff like Ready or Not, which they imported from Canada). There was varying degrees of buy-in and quality for things like Clarissa Explains It All, Pete and Pete, Alex Mack, Salute Your Shorts and Hey Dude, but most of them were about tweens or teenagers growing up and dealing with problems through their perspective.

 

Tween Spartan very much liked Alex Mack. And the show was great too.

 

Oh, come on, Larry. It wasn't that great the first time you tried it with Jerry.

Can't believe he wouldn't think up something new.

 

Im sure it was just a giant FU to the audience.

 

That was absolutely the perfect ending to Curb.

 

Really? Using the same story-line device as you did previously?

I'm fully aware David was trying to be cute. Bringing Seinfeld in late in the show helped tie it together a bit. But it didn't work for me.

 

Curb was so rambling and beholden to Larry David's whims, it had a lack of structure or direction that lead to any conclusion. There were narrative arcs like his divorce and Leon coming, but it was more of a series of events, which doesn't really lead to a good conclusion.

 

I was ready to say it didnt work, especially considering as soon as any court business was introduced early in the season everyone saw it coming 10 miles away.

The final twist was pretty good tho. Worth it.

 

Meh. It was fine. Sad part for me was its the last thing we'll see Richard Lewis in.