This once mighty (but still potent) show might be on it's way out, but AICN is reporting that Brad Whitford and Timothy Busifield will be migrating to Aaron Sorkin's upcoming SNL behind the scenes dramedy. Good news indeed.
I love Lost. Weird, tense, and one hell of a jigsaw puzzle.
Britisth TV hurts my head sometimes. Footballers Wives was super long the other night, and with less commercials, and boy was it tricky shoehorning in episodes of the original The Office on DVD (courtesy of Los Burds), but it was fun and worthwhile: enjoying the abstract, existential despair of the British original while also contrasting it to it's American cousin. The verdict: the original is television art, a sustained vision of life without real hope and the essential torpor that is begotten by sustained office life. Of course they gave in and gave it a happy ending (yay Tim and Dawn!), but it's original run it was dry, brutal, and devilishly pure in it's execution.
The American however version is pure hilarity, with hope thrown in to pull American viewers along, and a tour de force performance by Steve Carrell. It's ours, and it's observations of our work life are just as potent and dead on as theirs. It also makes me happy.
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