While I wasn’t a fan of the movie, the MTV series is hard to look away from. It’s like the old car accident analogy except in this analogy the car turns out to be a man.
This show has to come back for a second season. What’s that Futon Critic? MTV renewed Catfish on December 19th of last year? Well good. Now let’s agree to never tell anyone that we watch this show.
In case you have a story to share, my brother found this on Rhode Island’s Craigslist page:
American Idol’s 12th season premiered last night, and while I hate to admit it, I continue to tune in every year. I usually get excited about the first rounds where the show alternates between the talented and the “singing’s not for you, dawg” contestants. Here are some first impressions.
I miss Steven Tyler
I want to hear less from Nicki Minaj and more from Mariah Carey
Who the hell is Keith Urban
Randy Jackson has great taste in eyeglasses
That’s all I have so far. It was a slow start, but we’re just one William Hung or Pants On The Ground away from having something interesting to talk about. What do you think?
Skit cast:
Agent Cooper – Kyle MacLachlan
Sheriff Truman – Kevin Nealon
Leo Johnson – Chris Farley
Audrey Horne – Victoria Jackson
Nadine Hurley/ Log Lady – Jan Hooks
Leland Palmer – Phil Hartman
TMFAP – Mike Myers
Deputy Andy Brennan – Conan O’Brien
One of the greatest things I’ve ever watched on my TV is Michael Apted’s “Up Series” (Spoiler alerts in that link.) It follows the lives of fourteen British children since 1964 and checks in with them every 7 years. It’s by far the craziest case study I’ve ever seen. What happens to private school kids when they turn middle aged? What about that eccentric kid, how’s he going to turn out?
If you’re amazing at math like I am, it took you only a minute to realize that “56 Up” is the eighth installment of this series. If you’ve been following the series, you’ve probably been refreshing the Up Series Wikipedia page for a year wondering when we’ll get to catch up on the lives of Andrew, Charles, John, Suzy, Jackie, Lynn, Sue, Tony, Paul, Symon, Nick, Peter, Neil, and Bruce. Who will show up? Who will refuse to be on camera? Who will be homeless? Who’s in prison? Who will get divorced? I have so many questions. It’s almost Harry Potteresque in the way you grow up with these “characters.”
WELL, apparently I need to continue to wait to view the latest installment of the Up Series because while it aired on ITV in May, it is not available anywhere in the States at this time. I’ll do my best to SEO the hell out of this post so Americans looking for a way to view 56 Up in the US will have a sounding board or place to share US availability. If you have any inside information, please feel free to share in the comments, or shoot me an email or Tweet @LASnark.
Here’s the preview to 42 up. Stop watching if it starts looking interesting because you don’t want to ruin too much of the surprise:
Hello out there, our lovely “A” from LA Snark’s T&A Do LA column has been swallowed by her job.
In the meantime, I, the “T” will share with you some observations I make about the entertainment we’re dished. To Tele & Film Universe (TOFU: Where you can get a side of estrogen with your entertainment) and beyond.
And yes, I know tofu only has plant estrogen, but go with it here.
This has been a busy week for discussions on “race” and “television” concerning women.
How did this all start? With a show, heralded as the greatest new thing for women, based in Brooklyn that is white washed.
I didn’t make this image. I snagged this from an old teacher of mine who is a Jewish man—>
There’s The Good Wife and the good Asian wife (in The Joy Luck Club) and then just the “good Asian”. I’m continuing my coverage of the diversity issue in recent entertainment because it’s been in the press a lot this week.
Just to let you know, I won’t be harping on this all the time, but will endeavor to provide more, ahem, diverse coverage of entertainment issues across different mediums. Next week I’m going to write about something I’m calling “Twit-Play” where people use Twitter pseudonyms. It’s like Cos-Play, but online and no capes and stuff.
Hello out there, our lovely “A” from LA Snark’s T&A Do LA column has been swallowed by her job.
In the meantime, I, the “T” will share with you some observations I make about the entertainment we’re dished. To Tele & Film Universe (TOFU: Where you can get a side of estrogen with your entertainment) and beyond.
And yes, I know tofu only has plant estrogen, but go with it here.
The Friendly Female Stalker Next Door Trope: Rose & Robin
Oh, the Masochism.
You’ve seen The Roommate or Single White Female, not fun. However on television, female stalkers are “cute” and “charming’ as explained by TV Tropes. I’m going to tell you about a couple of television stalkers and their shows, in regards to their character depiction and overall diversity.
I miss Rose who was wonderful portrayed by Melanie Lynskey. I admit I don’t watch Two and a Half Men anymore. From commercials I see, the whole house looks different. I’m just not that into Ashton Kutcher. Charlie Sheen may be off his rocker, but he says it like it is and now has his own Fiat commercial. Hollywood is so forgiving of men. Is this weird that I have more overall respect for someone who is an overt unapologetic asshole than someone who has a good guy image?
I don’t know what you wanted to be when you grew up, but I wanted to be Street Hawk. Bad ass motorcycle, check. Wear all black and speed through the streets of LA? Double check. Growing up on the mean streets of suburban Warwick, Rhode Island, all I ever wanted to be was a ninja until I saw there was an option to skip the martial arts classes and buy a badass motorcycle. Knight Rider seemed like like a pretty great option but the bike proved to be a lot more useful when doing things like hunting down bad guys and avoiding the law by cutting through narrow tunnels.
In the 80′s you had your choice of three ultra-manly role models:
Michael Knight/Knight Rider: Drove KITT, a bad ass talking Trans-am.
Stringfellow Hawke/Airwolf: Badass name, drove a badass killer helicopter which helped squash the idea that helicopters were the ladies of flying vehicles.
Jessie Mach/Street Hawk: All the badassery of the first two balancing on two wheels.
Next time you get pissed off at a lane-splitting motorcyclist flying past you on your morning commute, just think of Street Hawk. That guy is probably just living the dream.
Yes, that was George Clooney.
*Don’t even get me started on Manimal and Automan, that’s a post for another day.
. Bad ass motorcycle, check. Wear all black and speed through the streets of LA? Double check. Growing up on the mean streets of suburban Warwick, Rhode Island, all I ever wanted to be was a ninja until I saw there was an option to skip the martial arts classes and buy a badass motorcycle. Knight Rider seemed like like a pretty great option but the bike proved to be a lot more useful when doing things like hunting down bad guys and avoiding the law by cutting through narrow tunnels.