The Morning After: Againtourage
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HBO's Entourage returned last night. I'd put up a spoiler alert, but we're talking about Entourage, so things progress at their own leisurely pace. How leisurely? Enough that Jay Leno is still hosting the Tonight Show. My Name Is Earl is still on the air, and a hit. Perhaps this was the result of a scheduling or production change. Perhaps the season is deliberately taking place in the past—spring? 2008? earlier?—and will eventually catch up to our present.
Or perhaps, we are gradually discovering, Entourage takes place in an alternative universe whose differences from ours are only gradually being revealed. Perhaps in this world, Leno was never replaced by Conan! NBC is a thriving network whose sitcoms dominate the top ten! And the British won the Revolutionary War!
Entourage as an elaborate counterhistorical mystery might interest me a lot; another season of Entourage as we know it, not so much. So don't expect a lot of blogging on it this season, though I'll be sticking around for Hung. Your thoughts on either?
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I don't get the fancy channels necessary to watch those shows. I do, however, get NBC. There are no words to describe "Meteor." Perhaps by saying it was so bad that I couldn't stand to watch it during Big Brother's commercial breaks I convey some of Meteor's horror, but that's just the tip of its iceberg of awful.
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I must say that after The Shield I basically had given up on TV altogether, but because my wife is a Thomas Jane fan, I was forced to give Hung a try. What started as a brownie point turned into a very interesting substitute for the Shield. It must be said that Hung is the first real post-2008 economic depression sitcom and all the credit goes to Mr. Jane. His character can evoke the quiet desperation of our times, the frustration of no real hope for the future and the resignation of using the things that used to be for pleasure as a business endeavor to survive these hard times. I'll continue telling my wife I'm watching this to spend time with her, but I'm secretly rooting for the three-legged horse.
- poniewozik No spoilers, but next #fnl is the best ep yet of the new season and Zach Gilford's best work on the show. - 2 hours ago
- poniewozik @carr2n Not so fast, Carr. That means you owe us a substitute windy blog post. Chop chop! - 5 hours ago
- poniewozik V returns to political allusions, reveals Anna as most evil yoga instructor ever: http://bit.ly/8gF6dA - 5 hours ago
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