(Minor spoilage below for...Life on Mars series finale and Being Erica's season finale)
- Niiiiice twist at the end of the BEING ERICA season 1 finale. Resolution to the season-long arc about the brother and ... a new therapist? Whatever can it all mean?
- For the life of me, I cannot figure out if the finale of the American LIFE ON MARS was good, bad, trippy, cheesy or just weird. I suspect it's a combination of all those things. And there certainly are things that don't track. I mean, if Sam is actually in 2035, then his memory of 2008 might be nostalgia (although why anyone would be nostalgic and want to go back to that ass-year is beyond me) but then his going back to 1973 is roughly akin to me going back to 1952. I don't know anything about 1952. I mean, not really. Is that around when the Rosenbergs died? Ike would have been elected President. That's it. That's what I know about 1952. Also, Sam's big reaction of looking up and seeing the Twin Towers in the pilot...would he really have an emotional reaction to a set of buildings he'd never seen in life?
Yet for all the tacked on feel -- the little rover-y thing that was all over the finale showed up in a very early episode...so there's evidence to say this is the ending they wanted all along. Like I said. good? bad? trippy? cheesy? or just weird?- Still watching UNITED STATES of TARA and starting to feel a little like what I imagine female viewers must feel like watching a Judd Apatow movie. There's not a single truly interesting, developed male character on the show. I love John Corbett, but that character is totally coasting on the actor's charm. The son...the Canadian kid whose name I can never remember...plays his part well, but he's a variation on that stock role I've seen in a hundred other things. When you find yourself hoping Patton Oswalt (who's great in everything) will show up more, you know there's trouble.
- I got screeners for the second season of IN TREATMENT from TMN. The second season premieres this weekend. I've watched all of week one.
Quite simply, this show is crack. Pure, 100% crack. Damn.
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In Treatment is gold. Pure gold. I couldn't stop watching the first season.
I did not see that season ending of Being Erica coming - at all .
What does it 'mean' ? I don't know man. Perhaps she is done with her past and will now be pressured by her new 'therapist' to explore other - future, parallel - dimensions.
They have me. I am watching. But I still find it metaphysically confusing. And I'm sorry but at some level it just freaks me out. You know, all the graveyard stuff (twice in one season - twice - Erica ends up doing weird shit in a graveyard at night. wtf!?).
But whatever - good luck to her and nice twist there.
I need to stop smoking weed and watching Being Erica.
On second thought: given that the season end processing of her brother's death was Erica's real psychological/spiritual breakthrough - all the graveyard stuff makes perfect sense.
Wow man. Foreshadowing.
They are way ahead of me.
Taped Being Erica and will watch it this weekend so I'm glad no one ruined it for me. Yet.
The end of Life on Mars had me screaming at the TV. Maybe because I didn't quite see it coming to that degree, or maybe because I felt a bit cheated (but it had an interesting concept at its core that might have worked better over a longer series run).
Anyway...
(spoiler alert)
...it was a new twist on the snowglobe idea.
If anyone remembers that legendary series-ending trick...
re: life on mars
-- Spoiler ---
Did you notice the fake out of special guest star Lisa Bonet in the head credits? I wonder if that was intentional to throw people off to see her name as I did and assume he will end up in 2009.
(Or was she in it for a second and I missed her?)
I was shaking my head as I watched it, "Gene Hunt" after all, but I don't know, I can't say I hated it. It gets better in my memory. Maybe I'm on my way to Mars...
Just curious, what was the appeal of the U.S. version of Life On Mars versus the U.K. original? I didn't bother tuning in for the remake because I figured, well, I know the story from beginning to end; it didn't seem to lend itself to going anywhere new. But it sounds like I may have been wrong on that count ....
This talk of Being Erica is also piquing my curiosity. Maybe I'll catch up online (legitimately, mind you, at CBC's show page).
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