Nice scene. I like it when they get creative. Reminds me of a sex scene from Stargate Universe where two people switched bodies mid intercourse...
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Playboy Club series (over)reaction
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So, basically, the world is changing and rapidly making the ad-based format of TV obsolete, but networks are slow to recognize this and adapt to it. Business as usual, then.
Yeah, but unless/until they figure out a way to monetize new forms of viewing, we'll just get more of the same: networks in a death spiral, desperately clinging to the genres beloved by geriatrics who don't know how to use the internet. Brace for more cop shows.
Fortunately, cable has figured out how to make decent stuff to watch, by using subscriptions as the partial or entire revenue stream. Cable produces enough good stuff to keep me happy via the good graces of either Comcast or Netflix, although I do wish someone would stick their neck out and do a space opera.
To bring this post back around to some thread relevance, NBC is run by a honcho from cable who apparently is thinking he can revitalize the network by doing what cable does. But it remains to be seen if the cable approach will work with a no-subscription revenue model, which depends more heavily on mass market acceptance. That's at odds with the cable approach to ditch mass tastes in favor of catering to some well-established niche.
Good news, the always-good Joel Gresch has joined the show!
Hah hah, sleazy politician, good role for Gresch.
His role on V demonstrated that he's better when he's not playing a nicey-nice type.
Hah hah, sleazy politician, good role for Gresch.
His role on V demonstrated that he's better when he's not playing a nicey-nice type.
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That won't stop the PTC from making political hay whenever the networks give them the opportunity.
I'll bet the show is no sexier than average for NBC. And it will be aimed at a female audience because the broadcast audience is dominated by females now and no show can afford to alienate them.
Just look at the key art: "Don't Let the Fluffy Tails Fool You." That implies that the bunnies will be the focus of the drama. The male characters will probably just be secondary, either serving as helpers or obstacles in the Bunnies' stories. It's basically going to be Mad Men, but with a Desperate Housewives focus.
Just look at the key art: "Don't Let the Fluffy Tails Fool You." That implies that the bunnies will be the focus of the drama. The male characters will probably just be secondary, either serving as helpers or obstacles in the Bunnies' stories. It's basically going to be Mad Men, but with a Desperate Housewives focus.
It does seem to be an increasingly popular PR tactic. Here's an especially blatant example. Oh no! Don't show people all that DRUG USE and INAPPROPRIATE URINATION!!! The poor little lambs will be scarred for life!!!
When "controversies" like Playboy Club break out, both the show and the PTC win, because they can both get their message to their respective audiences.
It's not a sin. Its just pure fiction.
C'mon now. Surly, you are not new to the Internet.
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Don't call me Surly. Or Shirley.
Which would be the right reason to not watch this, without any of that other malarkey.
I keep hearing that the pilot is bad. It's weird because I'd think that a story about Playboy bunnies and mobsters would be easy to make interesting and worth watching.
Which, again, ties into my theory that the network is encouraging the protests: get people titillated by the promise of a "too hot for network TV and the people in flyover country" show and hope they choose jiggle factor over quality.
Let's face it: it's the talent that makes the story, not the other way around. And sometimes you can see that when different creators take the same basic story. For example, "Analyze This" and "The Sopranos" are both about mob bosses who go into therapy. One was a dopey comedy that started DeNiro's slide into self-parody. The other was a nuanced drama that made James Gandofini a star and turned cable TV into the home of quality storytelling.
Oh well, there are too many new shows this fall to watch anyway. I'll be looking for excuses to dump them.
Now the PC doofuses of San Francisco City Hall are getting into it.
Because as we all know, network TV exists solely to create sensible documentaries on uplifting themes. Why the fuck don't those dolts attack something that needs to go away, like Jersey Shore or FOX News? Give this poor show a chance to run a few episodes so we can tell for ourselves how "exploitative" it is.
It does seem to be an increasingly popular PR tactic. Here's an especially blatant example. Oh no! Don't show people all that DRUG USE and INAPPROPRIATE URINATION!!! The poor little lambs will be scarred for life!!!
When "controversies" like Playboy Club break out, both the show and the PTC win, because they can both get their message to their respective audiences.
Yeah, lately I've started to see that both sides probably have a hand in manufacturing the conflict. And it sells because people love faux outrage. I say faux outrage because everyone, conservative or not, knows what this show is, who it's target audience is and that they can choose to turn the channel. It spares them from having to discuss the economy or something else more meaningful.
Ironically though, I bet many of the people calling on the FCC to stop the indecency are the ones rallying about keeping Big Government out of their lives.
