The TV thread

It’s exactly what the fictionalized version of Larry David would do. Learned his lesson from the Seinfeld finale? Absolutely not. Cringe goal achieved.

My only critique is it was telegraphed pretty early in the season.

Things hit everyone differently. I think this season was at its absurd best. Particularly the last 4-5 episodes.

 

Dave Attell 's Netflix special is great. He can write a joke that isn't some navel gazing but.

 

Meanwhile in 1985 ...

 

Planning on watching Fallout this week. I got a preview "reel" late last month and it looks like a lighter, more fun Last Of Us.

The whole preview reel as opposed to just sending a preview copy or an episode or two with interviews and maybe some behind the scenes footage started with Disney. Time travel to prevent that would be appreciated.

 

Yeah - The game series is a dark humor / satire of current and cold war politics and consumerism. Definitely way different tonally than the Last of Us, which is more channeling the bleakness of The Walking Dead with occasional bursts of light.

 

Just watched the first two episodes of Fallout. A lot of fun so far.

 

Watched the first two episodes of Sugar. Very stylized and there is something strange going on with respect to the Colin Farrell character, and not in a good way. Think I’m out on the show.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/12/entertainment/golden-bachelor-divorce/index.html

three months! Did they wait until the check from ABC for the wedding cleared? Or did both realize they could probably "trade up" now that they were TV people.

 

Just put Walton Goggins in everything.

 

"Fridays" debuted 44 years ago today. It was pretty much considered more edgy than SNL during its too-short run.

If anything, it was ahead of its time.

The cast had people who went on to bigger things (Larry David, Michael Richards). People who have had nice, workmanlike careers without ever becoming a star (Melanie Chartoff). And it had people who should have been bigger than they were (Mark Blankfield, Darrow Icus, Brandis Kemp). Icus and Kemp essentially disappeared after the show.

And they had such great musical guests. The Clash, Boomtown Rats, early Benatar, Steve Forbert. And I know he's not for everyone, but the first performance in the show's history ... well, it was possibly Loggins' best single performance. LOVED this song.

And if you wanted coked-out, '80s lounge singers ...

 

I heard that Sweetheart song in a store a few months back after not hearing it in decades. Man, that lead singer had it all, the stache, the chest hair, the chain, the mullett. I think of them like a band that might have been HUGE in a place like Sacramento. Should be noted, the lead singer won an oscar for co-writing "Time of My Life" for Dirty Dancing.