Tag: tv review

LB: My Fave TV News Article of the Week

Insider factoid: This film was originally titled BIOS. Evidently someone with power didn’t get it.

by Larry Brody

Well, my favorite TV news paragraph anyway. Sharp-eyed visitors may be able to figure out why.

Finch

Powell and Jacqueline Levine produced it. The managing directors are Kevin Misher (“Coming 2 America,” “Fight with My Family”), Jakqueline Rapke (“Cast Away,” “Flight”), Robert Zemeckis, Luck, Sapochnik, Andy Berman, Adam Merims, and Jeb Brody, all of whom have won Academy Awards. The “Finch” film from Apple Original Films is a collaboration between Amblin Entertainment and Reliance Entertainment, as well as the media. Misher Film and Imagemovers collaborated on “Finch.”

If this reads a bit weirdly to you, relax, it’s not your fault. The article, about an upcoming film starring some guy named Tom Hanks as some other guy named Finch, is from insideradvantagegeorgia.com, a site located in India. read article

LB: TV’s White Guy Crisis

by Larry Brody

Speaking of the 2021 Cultural Revolution (as we were on this very site just yesterday), a TVWriter™ frequent visitor has sent me a link to another insightful analysis of the problem.

Kathryn VanArendonk’s article comes at the inclusion situation from a new angle, starting with the masterful heading:

TV’s White Guys Are in Crisis

And taking it from there with: read article

LB: Looking for a whole new way of thinking?

A Sort of a TV Series Review
by LB

Current cultural revolution got you down? Not getting what everyone younger than, oh, 40ish, is bitching about this time around?

Despair about what appears to be the destruction of a perfectly fine civilization is par for the course for people of a certain age. I know this because I’ve experienced it myself, from just about every angle. But I’m here to tell you, my friends, that understanding is just a click away. On Netflix, believe it or not. read article

LB: ‘Ted Lasso’ has a New Kind of Problem

Roy Kent AKA writer-actor Brett Goldstein

by LB

I loved the first season of Ted Lasso. It was just what I needed to survive pandemic depression. More than survive – watching the show enabled me to fully embrace what I thought of as THE POWER OF THE HAPPY ENDING.

Season 2, however, is a disappointment. Same powerful outlook, but with a far less powerful result because something I couldn’t put my finger on was missing.

The season is about halfway over now, and that mysterious key element is still in hiding, but my half-assed “WTF am I not getting?” feeling has finally gone away thanks to a force I’d never have imagined would do the job. read article

Ken Levine: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: my review

We’ve resisted watching Netflix’s original series, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, mostly cuz, well, women’s prison stuff, you know? But Ken Levine has convinced us to give it a try, mostly cuz, hey, women’s prison. What can you do?

orange-is-the-new-blackby Ken Levine

From the first moment there was pay cable there were women-in-prison movies. It’s almost as if the delivery system was invented just for that purpose. They came on late at night and were ridiculously gratuitous. After all, since you could now show naked women on TV, why not show them naked all the time? Like reading their mail while showering.

These movies were all singularly awful, filled with sadistic lesbian prison guards and showgirls gone bad.  There was so much silicone the prison could float.  In every film the girls plotted their escape, carving guns out of soap and turning nail files into knives. Of course, where were they going to hide them since they were always naked? read article