Another feature with another really stupid name, I’ve been trying to write this post for 2 weeks now and finally I’m getting to it and still haven’t come up with a better name than this.
AMC: Since we all know that AMC has for at least the last 3 years been the best TV network around thanks to Mad Men and their fall hit Breaking Bad is at a new summer season now with a new Mad Men season and the premier of Rubicon. Since we all know about Mad Men and this season is starting out again to be another great season, I am going to focus on Rubicon. Rubicon is exactly what AMC would do with a political thriller/spy type show, it is the 3 Days of the Condor to USA’s Girl Spy Thriller’s The World is not Enough. It has a very film quality look, extremely slow burn and what is obviously about three plots that will at some point meet up, maybe not even in this season. It’s tense, slow, quiet and fairly interesting, this is exactly the “spy” show that I’ve been waiting for. As far as Mad Men season 4, awesome, hookers, scotch, Joan, more scotch, working, style going slightly down hill in 1965, and even better straight from Scotland Scotch.
FX and Adult Swim: I’ve put these together because I find that FX, specifically in Louis has taken off from where Adult Swim started and has made that kind of quirky uncomfortable humor into a viable product for an half hour show. Specifically the move by Adult Swim to live action shows, Children’s Hospital is the perfect transitional show from the crazy stoner cartoons of Sea Lab and Aqua Teen to an actual cable comedy show, Archer is another example of this in the cartoon realm. Children’s Hospital is also a great example of web shows and the web show mentality moving to cable. It combines cheap production and short episodes, 15 minutes or so which Adult Swim has done for years, and the ability for really great comedy actors to convince their friends to do one or two episodes leading to great comedy moments. Now Louis has these exact kind of qualities, it’s independent in a way TV usually isn’t, edited, written, directed and about everything else by Louis C.K. It also has the great uncomfortable odd moments, stretching the uncomfortable to before unseen levels, almost the Dogma 95 of comedy.
Premium: Over on Showtime Liam Neeson will join Laura Linney on a show called The C Word, and Susan Sarandon will be on HBO’s The Miraculous Year, obviously Showtime should work for a trade. And that is the Charley Sheen Joke of the Night. Try the lamb.
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