Posted on 03/01/2009 9:09:17 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee
“So you were ok with watching a show that involved multiple wives?”
Multiple HOT wives. Although personally I could run off with Jeanne Tripplehorn and be perfectly happy. She was the only reason “Waterworld” was worth watching.
I loved Deadwood and I loved the guy you're talking about - his name escapes me - but, I doubt I'll be watching King. For two reasons, I hate all things NBC and commercials just plain get on my nerves. If it's not on HBO or on DVD, we just don't watch.
I only watch Trumps show on NBC, otherwise I wouldn’t even know about KING. But it looks like a decent series and I’ll check it out.
What's amazing to me is how these people live in this communal "marriage" (and we all know that making marriage work means giving, giving, giving) and each one of them is only in it for him- or herself. They are the most self-righteous, selfish people I've seen on tv in a long time..except, of course, the new Democrats in control of the White House and Congress....
Im proud to say that I have never EVER had HBO. Even during the Sopranos and Band of Brothers run, I would download the episodes instead of giving HBO a Nielsen #.
So the show about polygamy wasn’t offensive *before*?
Taking Chance was movie making at its best. I am amazed that it was made. The military takes care of its own!
<What’s with people’s obsession with wanting fictional characters to think just like them?
Good question, I don’t know. I don’t get all het up about a TV show other than to notice if it’s well-written and well-acted.
If you can't see the symbolism in what the writers did the last two episodes - Sarah has a miscarriage and then afterwards is GLAD!!! that she lost her baby - then you're blind to the culture war [which, by the way, we lost some time ago - and, quite frankly, your inability to realize what's going on here is all the proof that anyone should ever need to realize that we lost the culture war].
No, the weird thing was that for the first season or two, it was the only pro-life, pro-family show on television - the only show which depicted [adult] men and women actively [and joyously] bringing new souls into the world.
But this season it took a hard left turn into nihilism - the last few episodes have been like that bleak, desperate, hopeless, nihilistic dreck that they've been serving up on Battlestar Galactica.
Does "writers propagating an evil agenda but doing so cleverly" count as well-written or poorly-written?
I hate to say it, but HBO's Rome was the best television I've ever seen in my life.
Rent it, or buy the DVDs.
How many episodes of Rome is there?
Is it only one season?
TIA.
Watched it this weekend I had tears in my eyes from when the Marines knocked on the door until the end.
I don’t wanna know about Kevin Bacon’s politics but he did a great job in that movie!
Two seasons:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Rome%20-%20The%20Complete%20First%20Season%20%282006%29:1809280960:page=compare?sort=price
Thanks.
I just finished watching the first season last night on demand and was thinking about trying to find out if Ceasars death was the final episode made. Appreciate you saving me a web search.
Bruno Heller Hoping for a Rome Feature
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
November 30, 2008
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50913Bruno Heller, creator of CBS' hit show "The Mentalist," wants to produce a theatrical wrap-up to his critically acclaimed and prematurely canceled HBO drama "Rome."
"There is talk of doing a movie version," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "It's moving along. It's not there until it is there. I would love to round that show off."
The period drama ran for two seasons on HBO. With the final season of "The Sopranos" as its lead-in, the first season was solidly rated, but high production costs presented the network with a tough call on the pickup. HBO opted for a second season but not a third, effectively canceling the show in summer 2006 before the second season debuted the following January.
Season 2 of "Rome" was a surprise as the show did remarkably well without a "Sopranos" lead-in. HBO executives have since admitted that axing the show probably was a mistake.
The show's Kevin McKidd now has a recurring role on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy." Fellow "Rome" star Ray Stevenson is in Punisher: War Zone, and Polly Walker is cast in SCI FI Channel's "Caprica."
The original series outline for "Rome" next called for the hedonistic Roman leaders to deal with the rise of a certain problematic rabbi.
"I discovered halfway through writing the second season the show was going to end," Heller said. "The second was going to end with death of Brutus. Third and fourth season would be set in Egypt. Fifth was going to be the rise of the messiah in Palestine. But because we got the heads-up that the second season would be it, I telescoped the third and fourth season into the second one, which accounts for the blazing speed we go through history near the end. There's certainly more than enough history to go around."
Hollywood came up with the idea of Big Love coincidentally at the same time the smart money was on Romney winning the Republican primaries. Being Mormon couldn't be used against him if most people didn't know the more extreme beliefs of some of the fringe groups.
If Hollywood had thought McCain was going to win they would have put out a series on former POW's who were serial killers or some such. So if this is you're first glimpse into the mind of the writers... well, it's taken you a while.
The culture war was already lost 40 years ago.
The USA as we knew it is dead.
I watched Big Love because I thought that HBO was using it as red meat to keep GOPers from cancelling their subscriptions - so that HBO would have at least one show that was pro-family and pro-life and not 100% pure unadulterated nihilism.
But now that HBO has indeed pushed Big Love off into 100% pure unadulterated nihilism, there's no reason for us to keep our subscription.
You didn't catch the "timing" - that it was going to be used to hurt Romney? People in Hollywood hate us. Period. And they hate Freepers. They have a megaphone the size of California and we have a megaphone the size of a coffee cup - and they hate that we have even that much. And no, the culture war is not lost - not yet.
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