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Sitcoms - Two Broke Girls and New Girl
Sep. 21st, 2011 10:55 pmNot quite sure why this is - but I always have more energy between 7-11pm, then between 7-3pm, when I need it. Probably lack of sleep?
Watched more tv...
*Hawaii 5-0 Premiere was better than last year's episodes, but not good enough to keep me interested. It's a show you can dip in and out of. Will state it's better than it was in the 1970s.
James Marsters barely had a role, blink, and you miss him (or go to the toilet and you miss him), but Terry O'Quinn and Masoki (from Heroes) appear to have recurring roles and will be used more often. So tempting. But...no, not really into this type of show. Burned out on that trope back in the 1990s. I honestly think the cop procedural was at its best in the 1980s/1990s - with shows like Prime Suspect (British Version), Miami Vice, Wise Guy, Hill Street Blues, and Homicide Life on the Street. The only series I've seen that broke it wide open and rewrote the book on how it should be done was The Wire.
But Hawaii 5-0 is fun.
*Two Broke Girls - bugged me exactly as predicted. I spent the whole time saying - uh, no, subways don't look like that anymore, no, that's not realistic, no, that's an exaggeration, and damn it no wonder people in the midwest have a skewed view of NYC and Brooklyn. This thing is supposed to take place in Greenpoint - but the subway line into Greenpoint is the G train and the art director used a beaten down C from somewhere in the Bronx, that had tons of graffiti, which no, not the case anymore. What they couldn't find a train with yellow and orange bucket seats?
Also, people from the upper East Side do visit Brooklyn - unfortunately. My area is gentrified and they are there all the time. Greenpoint and Williamsburg are also up-and-coming hoods. The areas that aren't safe are further out - such as Crown Heights and East NY.
That said? It's not bad. Off-rhythm in places, and the delivery seems a little off. But at least sixty percent of the jokes are about something other than sex, lack of sex, which guy I can land, and the opposite gender. Also the women talk about something other than men. Actually there's more jokes about local (which annoyed me because they are such stereotypes...although the bridge and tunnel joke was on target), workplace, and money. Which is to be honest far more realistic. Very few people in real life talk about sex as much as people on television sitcoms do, which makes me wonder about these writers.
This brings me...to the critical darling, and in my humble opinion much over-hyped, Zooey Deschanel tv show: The New Girl - which I frankly could not make it through and consider unwatchable. It makes Three's Company seem rather funny and unoffensive in comparison, something I never thought I'd say. Actually, Three's Company rarely did sex humor, it was fairly tame. It was more of French Farce.
Every single joke in the New Girl was either about sex, getting sex, need for sex, gender issues,
men, women, being nerdy girl and not a pretty model who can land guys. Or sex humiliation humor.
Which makes me wonder about the television critics. All the one's who loved it were men, and they
all thought the series was "feminist" and strongly focused on women. (Ooookay. Apparently we have different definitions.)
Seriously, is it just me or are about 75% of the sitcoms on tv right now either focused on Sex or Bad parenting or Practical Jokes/Humiliation?
( highly opinionated and somewhat cranky mini-rant about the situation comedies in the 21st Century or how my generation sucks at writing good comedy. )
Watched more tv...
*Hawaii 5-0 Premiere was better than last year's episodes, but not good enough to keep me interested. It's a show you can dip in and out of. Will state it's better than it was in the 1970s.
James Marsters barely had a role, blink, and you miss him (or go to the toilet and you miss him), but Terry O'Quinn and Masoki (from Heroes) appear to have recurring roles and will be used more often. So tempting. But...no, not really into this type of show. Burned out on that trope back in the 1990s. I honestly think the cop procedural was at its best in the 1980s/1990s - with shows like Prime Suspect (British Version), Miami Vice, Wise Guy, Hill Street Blues, and Homicide Life on the Street. The only series I've seen that broke it wide open and rewrote the book on how it should be done was The Wire.
But Hawaii 5-0 is fun.
*Two Broke Girls - bugged me exactly as predicted. I spent the whole time saying - uh, no, subways don't look like that anymore, no, that's not realistic, no, that's an exaggeration, and damn it no wonder people in the midwest have a skewed view of NYC and Brooklyn. This thing is supposed to take place in Greenpoint - but the subway line into Greenpoint is the G train and the art director used a beaten down C from somewhere in the Bronx, that had tons of graffiti, which no, not the case anymore. What they couldn't find a train with yellow and orange bucket seats?
Also, people from the upper East Side do visit Brooklyn - unfortunately. My area is gentrified and they are there all the time. Greenpoint and Williamsburg are also up-and-coming hoods. The areas that aren't safe are further out - such as Crown Heights and East NY.
That said? It's not bad. Off-rhythm in places, and the delivery seems a little off. But at least sixty percent of the jokes are about something other than sex, lack of sex, which guy I can land, and the opposite gender. Also the women talk about something other than men. Actually there's more jokes about local (which annoyed me because they are such stereotypes...although the bridge and tunnel joke was on target), workplace, and money. Which is to be honest far more realistic. Very few people in real life talk about sex as much as people on television sitcoms do, which makes me wonder about these writers.
This brings me...to the critical darling, and in my humble opinion much over-hyped, Zooey Deschanel tv show: The New Girl - which I frankly could not make it through and consider unwatchable. It makes Three's Company seem rather funny and unoffensive in comparison, something I never thought I'd say. Actually, Three's Company rarely did sex humor, it was fairly tame. It was more of French Farce.
Every single joke in the New Girl was either about sex, getting sex, need for sex, gender issues,
men, women, being nerdy girl and not a pretty model who can land guys. Or sex humiliation humor.
Which makes me wonder about the television critics. All the one's who loved it were men, and they
all thought the series was "feminist" and strongly focused on women. (Ooookay. Apparently we have different definitions.)
Seriously, is it just me or are about 75% of the sitcoms on tv right now either focused on Sex or Bad parenting or Practical Jokes/Humiliation?
( highly opinionated and somewhat cranky mini-rant about the situation comedies in the 21st Century or how my generation sucks at writing good comedy. )