John From Cincinnati had me intrigued for a little while, but it looks increasingly non-promising. The good news, though, is that Flight of the Conchords, which airs on HBO Sunday nights after Entourage is pretty hilarious. Check it out.
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John From Cincinnati is brilliant.
FotC is, indeed, fantastic. I will grant that the second episode wasn't quite as good as the first, but then again the first had "You're So Beautiful," which is hard to top.
FotC did a great series of 6 episodes for BBC Radio 4 (mainly about them coming to make it big in London), which is likewise hilarious.
Works some of the same gags as the HBO series but adds many different ones and is also horrifically funny. Liked them from the minute I heard it and am not disappointed in the HBO series.
I'm sure it's available (the BBC Radio series "Flight of the Conchords", that is) on the better Internets in your area.
Yeah, like we really needed more surfing-based entertainment.
I concur with Matt on both counts. HBO obviously is spending zilch on the Flight of the Conchords, which rocks, and spending major bucks on a lame and confusing surfing drama starring a boring version of Eddie the Echo. My $13 dollars a month deserves to be spent smarter, dammit!
"Given that the mob drama proved too crazily avant garde for your tastes, I don't really think it's a surprise that you can't take the surreal surfer drama with the curious religious overtones."
My thoughts precisely.
Politicos tend to be depressingly literal in their artistic tastes.
John from Cincinnati is pretty damn good so far. It's always going to have trouble finding an audience, but one of the nice things about pay cable is that it'll get a few seasons even if the hoi polloi can't sort it out.
What's not to like? "John from Cincinnati" is a non-linear mess - just like real life, in a good way. Insistence on a cohesive narrative is a distinct handicap with a show like this.
After about ten minutes of John From Cincinnati, I was looking for the exit. I think non-linear, post-coherence storytelling is fine, but it's a good idea to at least give the impression of having a point.
I wish HBO would move Big Love back to Sundays.
I find it odd that a perfectly coherent linear narrative like John from Cincinnati gets tagged as non-linear and non-narrative merely because it's in the magic realism genre.
I'm beginning to think folks should have to pass some kind of test before they're allowed to watch TV.
I actually think last night's FOTC was better than the first episode, even though it had only one Kirsten Schall appearance. (The Pet Shop Boys parody was priceless.)
As for John from Cincinnati, I can only wonder how HBO thought that having Milch truncate Deadwood's full run to get this on the air was the right call.
It was primarily a money issue: a period piece like Deadwood costs way more to make than a show like JFC
It was primarily a money issue: a period piece like Deadwood costs way more to make than a show like JFC
The strange thing about John from Cincinnati is that it's most interesting when its least important characters (such as Ramon and attorney Dickstein) are on the screen. Not sure what to make of that. Plus, it's not encouraging that the first three episodes have no one writer in common. Chaos ahead?
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Given that the mob drama proved too crazily avant garde for your tastes, I don't really think it's a surprise that you can't take the surreal surfer drama with the curious religious overtones.
Posted by Christmas | June 24, 2007 11:19 PM