Did I actually read in the description of one show,
"A unique legal drama.."
Yeah right!
"A unique legal drama.."
Yeah right!
ABC's 2010/2011 schedule
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Contradiction in terms!
ABC's Wednesday night comedy block is pretty successful. But the network seems to be largely buoyed by Dancing with the Stars and Grey's Anatomy. Desperate Housewives is still pretty strong but it is aging. Castle and Brothers & Sisters are successful but not really big hits. Seems to me they are possibly heading downward, perhaps faster than they realize. Why they would plant to bring back a marginal piece of crap like V is puzzling.
The Whole Truth is easily the most innovative, at least by what it says above. It's a mystery series that announces the detective will often be wrong and that the villain will often escape. But innovation is a hard sell.
No Ordinary Family sounds like the superpowers, especially the teen girl's, are metaphors for sexual desirability/availability/activity. The parents' are the key to the revival of their marriage's passion. The boy (the Brainiac, I believe) will combine supposd prepubescent nonsexuality with otherwise adult maturity as a built in commentary (or denial) of the theme. If this is what the show really turns out to be, concentrating on the family personalities will get extremely limited.
The Whole Truth is easily the most innovative, at least by what it says above. It's a mystery series that announces the detective will often be wrong and that the villain will often escape. But innovation is a hard sell.
No Ordinary Family sounds like the superpowers, especially the teen girl's, are metaphors for sexual desirability/availability/activity. The parents' are the key to the revival of their marriage's passion. The boy (the Brainiac, I believe) will combine supposd prepubescent nonsexuality with otherwise adult maturity as a built in commentary (or denial) of the theme. If this is what the show really turns out to be, concentrating on the family personalities will get extremely limited.
To save face. Otherwise, their entire 2009-10 lineup is a failure. But where they've scheduled it, they've pretty much doomed V anyway.
We're talking about ABC, not HBO!
The superpowers won't be a metaphor for anything, unless you decide to imagine that it's there. Go ahead make stuff up in your own mind if network TV bores you that badly. I'll be happy if they manage to create interesting characters for the show. Any story lives or dies on the characters, not on metaphors for blah-blah-blather.^^^Why else is the passionless state of the marriage an important piece of the premise? The PR isn't the series but noticing this element in the advertising about No Ordinary Family is like noticing that Dollhouse advertising was about prostitutes. It's definitely there, it's just not certain it's actually what the series will be about.
Besides, an HBO series would insist, at the very least, on hamfistedly spelling out the metaphor (all capital x-es of course,) repeatedly, in each and every episode. And probably put some shots in the titles to remind us. Deniable metaphors are too subtle for HBO, while the networks are too cowardly to ever be explicit.
Commonly, chatter about the "characters" is an insistence on daydreams come to videotape, if not quite to life. The insistence that the characters be cool or interesting reflects a strong disinterest in real people, who are rarely cool. Ordinary people even more rarely have big scenes where their interestingness is laid out, big and loud, for easy inspection.
Besides, an HBO series would insist, at the very least, on hamfistedly spelling out the metaphor (all capital x-es of course,) repeatedly, in each and every episode. And probably put some shots in the titles to remind us. Deniable metaphors are too subtle for HBO, while the networks are too cowardly to ever be explicit.
Commonly, chatter about the "characters" is an insistence on daydreams come to videotape, if not quite to life. The insistence that the characters be cool or interesting reflects a strong disinterest in real people, who are rarely cool. Ordinary people even more rarely have big scenes where their interestingness is laid out, big and loud, for easy inspection.
