Now this will ensure I post regularly

[gwyn]

Finally, something I can do to make sure I post more often! Gakked from crickwooder, a 30 days of TV meme, which will nicely balance out the helpful suggestions I got from everyone (thank you, everyone!) to keep my mind off end of quarter horror (you guys. It was so awful I can't even... no, don't speak of it anymore. Don't drive yourself crazy) for the last couple weeks.

DAY 01: A show that never should have been canceled

There are so many possible answers to this that it's a task to pin one down, but despite the obvious ones in recent years (and I liked crickwooder's choice of Deadwood) like Firefly and Middleman, I'm going with a show from ten years ago, Now and Again. Very few people I know in fandom are familiar with this show, and they should be. But because Paramount sucks at DVDs of its shows, especially one like this, and there was a pissing contest between Paramount and CBS over it, resulting in its cancellation, I have doubts it will ever be available in digital format intact. There are copies of it floating around from its run on Sci Fi channel; however, they are badly cut up and missing some of the most wonderful scenes, so I have a hard time recommending seeing it that way. But if it's the only way, you should still try. (It was CBS's first hit in decades in the younger demographic, but they killed it anyway and put on piece of shit reality shows instead.)

To say it was brilliant is putting it mildly. It came from Glenn Gordon Caron, the guy behind Moonlighting, and it starred Eric Close as a perfect Superman body created by scientist Dennis Haysbert to do things regular humans couldn't, but because they couldn't "lick the mind thing," they put the brain of recently deceased John Goodman in his head, complete with his memories and feelings for the family he left behind and couldn't contact. Heather Matarazzo played his daughter, and Margaret Colin played his wife, and it was funny, tragic, witty, actiony, thinky, sweet, and dark all at the same time. Haysbert was this mercurial, cruel, whimsical, and devious scientist-as-God character who was quite unlike anything ever on TV before, and Close was essentially playing a whole new character with elements of John Goodman, which was a pretty amazing acting feat. The dialog was sharp, the stories superb, the cinematography exquisite (it was shot in NY), and the music -- because they used music in the most spectacular way, and Haysbert's character often burst into song -- so cleverly chosen that it makes my heart break just thinking of Paramount ever releasing this and replacing songs, as they so often do.


Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever 
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

[umbo]

I loved that show.