TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[thrill]

Ben Mendelsohn is a human coyote. He's got that gaunt, constantly shifty, slinky thing like he's always expecting to get hit by something and could also turn on you at any moment. He's the best.

Watch Killing Them Softly, Slow West and The Place Beyond the Pines. He's so great.

[cardinalkarp]

So far so good w/ this season of Ray Donovan.

[MrSaigon]

The Wet Hot American Summer thing is good. It's so incredibly dorky, but it's great fun. Also, it's your first chance to see Janeane Garafolo occupy a screen without mentioning George W. Bush in 15 years.

[cardinalkarp]

The Wet Hot American Summer thing is good. It's so incredibly dorky, but it's great fun. Also, it's your first chance to see Janeane Garafolo occupy a screen without mentioning George W. Bush in 15 years.

Tried a few episodes over the weekend and for the cast of people they have I was a disappointed. I might pick up on it again at some point, but I won't be jumping at the chance to find time to watch.

[MrSaigon]

[heyzeus]

Wet Hot just feels like it's trying to hard. I get what they're doing - the pastiche of 80s summer camp tropes. It feels like they're all staring through the camera at me, waiting for me to laugh because HEY LOOK AT THE FUNNY AWKWARD THING I DID, which makes me not want to laugh.

[cardinalkarp]

Wet Hot just feels like it's trying to hard. I get what they're doing - the pastiche of 80s summer camp tropes. It feels like they're all staring through the camera at me, waiting for me to laugh because HEY LOOK AT THE FUNNY AWKWARD THING I DID, which makes me not want to laugh.

That sums it up pretty well. Trying too hard to get laughs generally ends up getting a lot less laughs.

[MrSaigon]

But isn't that the same as it always was? Very playful and winky and kind of patched together in dorkiness? I mean, if you liked the movie, it's hard for me to think it would be disappointing.

Maybe not. It's been a while since I've watched the movie. Maybe now that they're all BFDs there is an offputting self awareness that I'm not picking up on, but can envision.

[thrill]

If you liked the movie, you'll like the show. If not, don't bother.

I loved the movie. Christopher Merloni is a comic genius.

[MrSaigon]

Maybe if they filmed that Lewis and Clark miniseries Pitt and Hanks are producing and Edward Norton is writing (?) in Oregon and not mfing Canada, they wouldn't have had production problems.

Do hope they pick it back up. I was looking forward to that.