- "It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that and I know. But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over."
My instinct is to be contrarian and disagree, but at the same time the creativity is bleeding out of the studios. It was bound to happen - once you build up an expensive distribution platform, you can't make risky choices about how to monetize it. So the interesting stuff ends up in cheaper channels. Not gonna lie. A substantial portion of my income this year is mixing for Youtube. That which is not being paid for by Youtube is being paid for by major multinational corporations for Youtube. I've got a 72-channel mix for a Youtube video hot in the other room right now. Dunno. Orange is the New Black isn't half bad. That Kevin Spacey thing is shit. Hemlock Grove is crap, and I used to hang out with Brian McGreevy regularly. If Netflix can stop shooting for "slightly better than Lillyhammer" and aim for "slightly better than Treme" they'll have something. HBO wasn't shit until OZ so it'll happen.
Orange is the New Black is pretty poor to be honest, It can be summed up as lesbians in a cage, sure they are interesting to watch but its still shit. I liked House of Cards though, except for that god awful episode where they returned to his college days. I haven't seen Lillyhammer but the picture on Netflix alone is enough to put me off until someone tells me its worth a spin. Treme, I tried to watch it after finishing The Wire as it has several of the same actors/writers and it didn't click. Same thing with The Corner. I must give them a second shot sometime.Dunno. Orange is the New Black isn't half bad. That Kevin Spacey thing is shit. Hemlock Grove is crap, and I used to hang out with Brian McGreevy regularly. If Netflix can stop shooting for "slightly better than Lillyhammer" and aim for "slightly better than Treme" they'll have something. HBO wasn't shit until OZ so it'll happen.
I liked House of Cards though, except for that god awful episode where they returned to his college days.
-that episode was particularly horrid. I'm not a big fan of the series thus far. There aren't any redeeming characters. I get that we are all fallible and stuff but these people are despicable. -even DC has some redeeming people in it.
Ok so maybe the reason I enjoy it is that it is a remake of this which is the original BBC series upon which the US version is based. The original suffered hugely from poorly defined characters (His wife for example reaction to his decision to sleep with the Reporter character was roughly "Whatever you think is best Dear", The Reporter character is similarly 1 dimensional and by the end is suffering from some kind of Fatherless Woman syndrome and refers to the main character as "Daddy") So it was awful, but its one redeeming quality was how it broke the fourth wall with the main character speaking directly to the audience which at that time (80's) was a new technique (at least to me). It was a step toward bridging the gap between TV and Novels as mediums for delivering a characters internal dialogue. So the US version has taken BBC version and expanded every aspect of the original and improved it by rounding out the supporting characters. Its still a one trick pony I guess but its a decent trick which moves it a step above the likes of Orange is the New Black in my book (where the only trick is the ones the inmates sell for an extra dessert pudding).
I hope the best isn't over. I hope that Neflix and other emerging media platforms will pick up the mantle of experimenting within the genre instead of relying on predictable "winners" to drive revenue. I remember asking bgood79 if he had seen The Walking Dead and he responded, "nah, I'm trying to ride out this whole vampire/zombie thing without having seen any of it." -Hard to do in this day and age.
Genius idea. Wish I had thought of it myself. At least once a week, my coworker asks me if I'm watching walking dead yet. At this point, I feel like I would be arriving to the party as all the cool people were leaving. This is what happened with breaking bad. I started watching it two years ago and couldn't catch up and finally gave up."nah, I'm trying to ride out this whole vampire/zombie thing without having seen any of it."
I started watching Breaking Bad this year and in a couple of weeks had completely caught up. -dangerously good. much like 98 Degrees -bgood79 you missed out.
I've made it almost through Season 1 a couple times and end up getting distracted. I cranked through The Wire no problem, though, so I'm on it. Gotta finish Serial Experiments:Lain first, and I got me some alternative history to catch up on. With a tumbler of bourbon. In the hammock. In my shorts. Socal in November, bitchez...
70 degrees out today in Durham, not too shabby for a michigander. Just missing the hammock.. and more sadly, the bourbon. Though I did manage to record some music tonight with the aid of some Louis Jadot pinot noir, could be worse. Off to read some Blood Meridian. Funny, I have watched the first season of The Wire and ended up getting distracted. I'll revisit someday. You'll dig Breaking Bad. Cranston has some chops.