Stop looking at me with those sad puppy eyes. I'm serious. I've gotta say, I don't think you know how much hope I had for you. Do you know how many times I watched the pilot? I'll say six so you don't think I'm a weirdo, but it was probably more. And what do I get in return? A muddled, poorly plotted, glacially paced "drama" about four brothers, who frankly, I'm shocked are not dead. Does Kevin even have a fourth grade education? And Jimmy? Don't even get me started. In the pilot we're told that his life changes because he goes to rehab. But he didn't go. You know what would have been dramatic? If the second episode picked up a month or two after the pilot and we saw Jimmy trying to walk the straight and narrow while you were struggling with your new life in crime.Instead we've got him walking around (sometimes with a limp, sometimes without) telling anyone who will listen that you and Kevin killed Huey. I realize he's a junky, but Jesus! And what's with all this Huey was a great guy BS? I'm so freaking bored with all of it. And Dokey and his ax are as tedious as the humor of Joey Ice Cream.
Damn it, Tommy! Listen to me. I sound jaded and I hate that. But what I saw as a promising spin on the Godfather for a different medium has turned out to be recycled muck. And I'm going to predict your affair with Huey's widow right now. Playing father figure to that weird kid from the Omen isn't going to assuage your guilt and it's a trite plot point, but I'm sure that's where we'll be headed next. Lame, lame, lame.
You bastard, you've made me think fondly of Studio 60. And that, my former friend, is unforgivable.
-SC
PS. Keep up the high protein diet, you look fab!
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According to the lead singer of the Arcade Fire, they didn't let them use their song in the pilot, because they don't let anyone license their songs.
St. Clare, I have two words, and they rhyme with Maul Saggis...
I like how it's a show about four brothers, because as far as I can tell, one of them has a bashed in face and been in a coma for 2 episodes so far...
Q
St. Clare, I have two words, and they also rhyme with Maul Saggis...
I told you so. Okay... so that was more like four words... and it didn't rhyme with anything... and is really just a gagging display of my petulent and petty need for ego validation, but still...
I will say this, however. I've become so irritated by their implausibly sticking with Joey Ice Cream as this unreliable omniscient narrator that I've actually become a little interested in how/if he actually fits into some large arc that's going on. They dropped a few hints abot him being wanted and sometimes he posits himself into the story -- showing up in somewhat supernatural ways, the oddness of which his characters comment on, and showing up naturally at a normal participant in others. So... what? Is this guy Kaiser Soze? He is actually some manipulative king pin spinning yarns to whoever will listen? Do the Donnelley's exist at all? And if all these "shocking" possibilites turn out to be true will the giant sucking sound coming from the vaccum or originality be enough to wake me up?
And I also agree. These characters are so dumb I'm stunned some of them haven't dropped over dead simply because they forgot to breathe. Olivia Wilde is pretty (though possibly doesn't appear for the next 4 episodes or so) and I wish I had Tommy's abs.
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