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Things (Mainly of a TV Nature)
May. 9th, 2006 05:41 pm1. Quick show of hands...how many of you know who Eva Hesse was? Odds are, not a one of you. But don't feel bad. I didn't know her till rcently, either. She was a rising star in the NYC art scene who died young in 1970, a sculptor who worked with funky materials like latex and fiberglass and who left a following. I know this because a show of her works is about to open at the JM. And because 84 journalists (twice the usual number) came for the press preview today. I can't say that her work is to everyone's taste, but I like it a lot, and think that some of you NYC people might like it, too. (And yes, I am promoting my museum, but that is what I'm paid to do.) And any day when I get 84 people in and out the galleries without anyone not getting what they want from me, is a good day.
2. Tonight is the finale of Veronica Mars. But I won't be taping it till Sunday, so I will avoiding spoilers. I am of course looking forward to seeing how things wrap up, but think that one hour is not enough to deal with the myriad number of dangling plot threads. Has Rob Thomas bitten off too much? I hope not, but it's easy to get Lost. I mean lost.
Mr. Thomas has announced, BTW, that if the show comes back, there will be three seven-episode arcs and not one one season-long one, so that the show can go into reruns and not leqave viewers either dagnling or forgetting what happened. This sounds like a decent idea, but I wonder if that's also a way to get the new network to pick the show up. (Anyone recall Murder One? It changed formats the same way, which produced two very good and one very tepid mystery in its second season, but by then, no one was watching despite the excellent cast.)
3. Much I could say about Supernatural. Will leave it at how much the show improved over the course of the season, and how good the actors are. Is this show an all-time great? No, and that's okay. It wants to be a reasonably unpredictable, reasonably scary and reasonably entertaining horror show about two brothers fighting evil sons of bitches. And after one season, I would say it's succeeded entirely. With its loyal audience and decent ratings, there's no logical reason we can't expect it to return. I hope.
4. Lost...By now, there are two kinds of fanatics. Those who are hooked despite the unending prliferation of unanswered questions; and those who are hooked because of the unending number of unanswered questions. I'm in the first camp. Three weeks from the finale, and we have no idea at all what is going on. It's a tad annoying. But the acting and the scripts and the production values are so amazing, and the quality of the questions so gripping, that I can look the other way. Given my skepticism after lasat season's finale, I think I'm surprised that I'm still as hooked.
2. Tonight is the finale of Veronica Mars. But I won't be taping it till Sunday, so I will avoiding spoilers. I am of course looking forward to seeing how things wrap up, but think that one hour is not enough to deal with the myriad number of dangling plot threads. Has Rob Thomas bitten off too much? I hope not, but it's easy to get Lost. I mean lost.
Mr. Thomas has announced, BTW, that if the show comes back, there will be three seven-episode arcs and not one one season-long one, so that the show can go into reruns and not leqave viewers either dagnling or forgetting what happened. This sounds like a decent idea, but I wonder if that's also a way to get the new network to pick the show up. (Anyone recall Murder One? It changed formats the same way, which produced two very good and one very tepid mystery in its second season, but by then, no one was watching despite the excellent cast.)
3. Much I could say about Supernatural. Will leave it at how much the show improved over the course of the season, and how good the actors are. Is this show an all-time great? No, and that's okay. It wants to be a reasonably unpredictable, reasonably scary and reasonably entertaining horror show about two brothers fighting evil sons of bitches. And after one season, I would say it's succeeded entirely. With its loyal audience and decent ratings, there's no logical reason we can't expect it to return. I hope.
4. Lost...By now, there are two kinds of fanatics. Those who are hooked despite the unending prliferation of unanswered questions; and those who are hooked because of the unending number of unanswered questions. I'm in the first camp. Three weeks from the finale, and we have no idea at all what is going on. It's a tad annoying. But the acting and the scripts and the production values are so amazing, and the quality of the questions so gripping, that I can look the other way. Given my skepticism after lasat season's finale, I think I'm surprised that I'm still as hooked.
