When I heard about the new show I was skeptical I wasn’t so sure even the guy who thought up Deadwood could interest me in a “Family of troubled surfers” ( that’s the ridiculous way HBO chose to announce John From Cincinnati ). I guess they are surfers. I guess they are troubled. The New Yorker wrote the show off based on the 1st episode(or maybe they get to to view more than the pilot show?)–but they were unimpressed to say the least.
I steered clear until I went to Utah and mom –who will watch anything as long as it is sort of science fiction or fantasy–got me to watch a show.I thought it was good.So when I got home I watched all of the episodes I’d missed,about 5,on On Demand and wouldn’t you know I am now fighting with my baseball crazed roommate for control of the remote on Sundays again.
Part of what got me was the weird, stagey way the characters talk,the actors from Deadwood and how Rebecca de Mornay stomps around and kicks people and stuff.That and Al Bundy and a theme song by Joe Strummer…I was pretty sure it was him singing but then got to see the very last 10 minutes of the documentary Let’s Rock, again which confirmed it.
If you’re a snob like me and pay any attention to the opinions of the New Yorker,try to ignore your snootiness and watch a show. You know they got us anyway since the Sopranos,Oz and Six Feet Under and Sex and the City are long gone.
But screw Entourage! If I have to see one more glamorous model / actress get swooped down upon by some schlubby moe I will spit.
I haven’t seen that yet. But I loved deadwood and I just finished watching all of the Dexter shows from Showtime which i LOVED!