{"id":8369,"date":"2012-12-29T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2016-03-25T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T04:31:18","slug":"television-end-of-2012-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8369","title":{"rendered":"Television: end of 2012 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sports Night<\/em> season 1 (1998-99)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good Aaron Sorkin show. Casey (Peter Krause of Six Feet Under<\/em>) and darker-haired Dan (Josh Charles of Muppets From Space<\/em>) are anchors of a sports show run by Felicity Huffman (of Transamerica<\/em> and apparently Magnolia<\/em>) and Robert Guillaume (Benson<\/em>, Rafiki in The Lion King<\/a><\/em>). Casey likes Felicity, who is engaged to Ted McGinley, and Dan likes Teri Polo (mom in The Hole<\/a><\/em>), who is married. The only stable relationship is Felicity’s assistant Sabrina Lloyd (Harley’s The Girl From Monday<\/em>) with new guy Joshua Malina (a Sorkin regular).<\/p>\n

Asylum<\/em> (1996)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edgar Wright’s first series – and he has four others that I’ve never heard of between this and Spaced<\/em>. Cowritten with the cast, overall uneven with a slim overarching story and characters that get tiresome if you watch the episodes too close together.<\/p>\n

Simon Pegg is a pizza boy called to an asylum then imprisoned there. Jessica Stevenson plays the sadistic head nurse and a daytime-TV-addict inmate. Mighty Boosh<\/em> star Julian Barratt is a talkative, pretentious artist (and the highlight of the show). Standup comic Adam Bloom is a Lenny Bruce obsessive, Paul Morocco a mute juggler, Norman Lovett (of Red Dwarf<\/em>) the head doctor and Mick O’Connor (whose only other credit is The Falls<\/em>) the receptionist. Each episode ends with a music video, which I kinda loved.<\/p>\n

Big Train<\/em> season 1 (1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Excellent sketch comedy show starring Simon Pegg (between Asylum<\/em> and Spaced<\/em>), Mark Heap (Brian in Spaced<\/em>) and Kevin Eldon (a dim officer in Hot Fuzz<\/a><\/em>), with Julia Davis (Nighty Night<\/em>) and Amelia Bullmore (Jam<\/em> and I’m Alan Partridge<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Weird to hear a Tortoise song scoring a fake TV ad in episode 3, and to see a parody of the intro to A Matter of Life and Death<\/a><\/em>. Lots of animated (barely) footage of the staring-contest world finals.<\/p>\n

Cowriters Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan worked on The Fast Show<\/em>, and with Christopher Morris on Jam<\/em> and Brass Eye<\/em>. Still need to watch Morris’s feature Four Lions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Arrested Development<\/em> season 3 (2005-06)<\/strong><\/p>\n

So very good. I love how it ends with none of the characters having learned anything at all. Appearances by Justine Bateman, Judge Reinhold and a long section with Charlize Theron.<\/p>\n

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man<\/em> (2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since I didn’t watch this with the release of The Drift like I was supposed to, I watched it with the release of his follow-up album. Wow. Some records I need to get: Night Flight, Climate of Hunter, the Ute Lemper album. Scott worked on Pola X<\/a><\/em> so they show some behind-the-scenes bits of the warehouse performance and motorcycle crash.<\/p>\n

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The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway<\/em> (2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apparently, Pee Wee is better remembered than revisited.<\/p>\n

Also watched Maria Bamford<\/strong>‘s stand-up thing recorded at her house with no audience – weird and awesome. She’s got a new one with her parents as the audience, which sounds even better.<\/p>\n

The Queen of Versailles<\/em> (2012, Lauren Greenfield)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Katy watched on netflix in a couple installments – I think I was there for all of it, but not too sure. Belongs in the Movies I Only Sorta Watched<\/a> category. Pretty fascinating, starting as a document of the loony mega-rich couple building the largest house in America, until the housing crisis delays their plans and threatens his timeshare business. Wonderful to see things from the 1% perspective, especially when they’re in what they consider to be desperate financial straits (though the wife has a five-shopping-cart trip to walmart and visits the warehouses where their extraneous crap is stored), repeatedly referring to themselves as normal people who got screwed by the banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sports Night season 1 (1998-99) Good Aaron Sorkin show. Casey (Peter Krause of Six Feet Under) and darker-haired Dan (Josh Charles of Muppets From Space) are anchors of a sports show run by Felicity Huffman (of Transamerica and apparently Magnolia) and Robert Guillaume (Benson, Rafiki in The Lion King). Casey likes Felicity, who is engaged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1049,1659,157,1444,52],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-2010s","tag-aaron-sorkin","tag-edgar-wright","tag-simon-pegg","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10940,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions\/10940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}