This picture was attached to an article about Rick McCallum stating that the Star Wars TV show would be like Deadwood in space. If The A.V. Club’s estimation about what it would look like is accurate, I’m so in.
On one hand, it’s nice to know that evangelicals were crying witch before Harry Potter came along. On the other: ugh, evangelicals crying witch. Also, racism.
And is it just me, or does one of the guys in the video sound (but not look) a lot like Reverend Smith from Deadwood?
Last night, some Twitter friends and I took one person’s idea - a bar where people can gather and watch TV together - and created a crazy, multi-room establishment with each room being dedicated to a show. These are the results:
I started watching The Sopranos yesterday (after trying the pilot a few months back and not getting drawn in). I like it fine enough so far, but one major problem is that I can’t stand 90% of the characters. Even the ones I like right now - Tony, Carmela, and Christopher - are more a case of hating them less than everyone else, rather than actually enjoying them. I’m also watching Justified right now, and I realized that I would absolutely love The Bennetts, a show focused on the villainous family from Season 2. Mags Bennett would make for an amazing character study, and I can always use more Jeremy Davies in my life.
Going back to The Sopranos, I started to wonder about why I can hate the awful people in that show, but love characters like Gus Fring, Ben Linus, Al Swearengen, the Paddy’s Pub crew, and most people on The Wire. Expect more on this when I get farther in and can comment on more of the nuances in the characters on The Sopranos.
It was announced today that Bryan Fuller, creator of Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, and Pushing Daisies, sold a television show version of the Hannibal Lector stories to NBC. To me, this news did nothing more than remind me that Pushing Daisies is no longer on the air. (Sadly, I forgot to mention both Pushing Daisies and Deadwood in my Greatest Shows No One Watched post.) Fortunately, there are many others like me out there, and, like with Stratford-On-Hellmouth, a new dream was born: Sweeney Todd with the cast of Pushing Daisies.
Led by Stratford-On-Hellmouth’s Les and joined by Kate, we set about filling all the roles. We ended up with the following:
Sweeney Todd: Lee Pace
Mrs. Lovett: Kristin Chenoweth
Judge Turpin: Stephen Root
Beggar Woman: Ellen Greene
Beadle Bamford: Chi McBride
Aldolfo Pirelli: Paul Reubens
Anthony Hope: Raul Esparaza
Johanna Todd: Anna Friel
Toby: Field Cate
Ghost Narrators: Jim Dale, Sy Richardson
If Joss Whedon can do Shakespeare in his spare time, Bryan Fuller must be allowed to do this.
