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Mad About Mad Men
For more than 10 years, the intricate, multiseason narrative TV drama has exercised a dominant cultural sway over well-educated, well-off adults. Just as urbanish professionals in the 1950s could be counted on to collectively coo and argue over the latest Salinger short story, so that set in the 2000s has been most intellectually, emotionally, and aesthetically engaged not by fiction, the theater, or the cinema but by The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Big Love.
After watching videos of The Sopranos 13-hour first season, the film critic Vincent Canby discerned that this new genre—owing to its “cohesive dramatic arc,” the quality of its production values and ensemble performances, and the sophistication of its writing—amounted to a “megamovie” rather than merely a tarted-up TV miniseries. And he bestowed on it a fairly exalted pedigree, tracing it not just to Dennis Potter’s English production The Singing Detective (1986) and Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) but even to Erich von Stroheim’s lost silent masterpiece, the nine-and-a-half-hour Greed (1924).
guess that power necklace let you down, joba. not that im watching.
30 rock is back. intense tracy morgan (meltdown) interview w/ terry gross
are you ready for some futbol! more qualifying matches for the champions league. barcelona plays top russian team fk rubin kazan and liverpool is up against top french team lyon among other games.
big game today. no, not jets v saints, its liverpool v chelsea on fox soccer channel. maybe i finally settle on an english premiere league team to root for. starts right now. also tonight is the beginning of the seinfeld reunion arc on curbed.
pretty good doc about the monks now on sundance.
six part monty python doc on ifc oct 18-23
three pack of the prisoner starts now on ifc. looks to be episode 4-6.