HBO picks up a 6th season of Entourage. The show’s not as good as it was in its first two seasons but still decently watchable.
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Bill Maher kills it with his last “rule”.
Well played sir. via
I don’t have much to say about the finale last night, other then to say I enjoyed it and was glad Simon valued his viewers enough to give some closure to the whole thing. Certainly there are many places to go for various commentary (here and here and here for instance). Though I caught on to it late, only this season in fact, its by far my favorite show of all time and it will be missed.
In Wire-related news, I am very much looking forward to David Simon’s next project, the HBO miniseries Generation Kill which is based on one of my favorite books of the same name. That’s out in July and should be quite good. I think the guy who played Ziggy even has a role in it.
And finally, the Time magazine piece by Simon and company on the drug war is an interesting read, particularly this part:
If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended violence are alleged, we will — to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun’s manifesto against the death penalty — no longer tinker with the machinery of the drug war. No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest, most damaged and most desperate citizens.
Goodbye Wire. I love you.
The American Prospect has put together an interesting discussion of the first 3 episodes of Season 5 of The Wire featuring Spencer Ackerman, Matt Yglesias, Kay Steiger, Ann Friedman, Ezra Klein, and Kriston Capps.
On Sunday 10:30 Eastern HBO will be showing “Alive Day Memories”. I will be watching and you should be too.
Via Gabe Roth I learn that one of my favorite books, and one of the better books I’ve read on the Iraq War, Generation Kill is being turned into a 7 hour miniseries for HBO. Even better, its being co-written by David Simon and Ed Burns of “The Wire” fame. I don’t want to get my expectations up too high but I hope they do justice to the book. It’s really good.
I’ve never been a fan of The Sopranos. Never gotten in to it, never even watched a full episode in fact. Something about James Gandolfini’s voice really irritates me. Anyway last night, as everyone knows, was the last episode. All the hype surrounding this got me mildly curious to see what would happen so, after a lovely dinner at Raku in Bethesda with Mom’s and Turtle, I turned it on roughly half way through. It was fairly boring as I didnt really have any idea who any of the characters were (that AJ kid seems like a total tool though, doesnt he?) but things started picking up considerably towards the end. Turtle, who had been reading the latest US Weekly, even started to get into it (I was watching in my mom’s basement) with Tony waiting for his family at the diner. It was pretty tense (learn how to park an f’ing car Meadow!) and I was sure something huge was about to happen.
In fact, I got so excited that I shifted positions and accidentally ended up turning off our TV. Right at the crucial moment. I franticly scrambled to turn it back on but do to the unfamiliar remote it took me a second. By the time I got it back on the credits were rolling. Well, needless to say, this was quite irritating. I got all worked up about a show I don’t even watch and then I missed the best part (Turtle was not, shall we say, pleased). Turns out I needn’t have cared as that was, essentially, the ending: a fade to black with nothing exciting happening. So I didn’t miss anything. Now even I find this kind of ending a little annoying and I’m not even a fan. Real fans though were apparently pretty pissed: angry fans crashed the HBO website. Lots and lots of people thought their cable had gone out and they missed the real ending (kind of like me).
Since I dont really care one way or another about the show I won’t pass any judgment on the finale (though if forced I’d say I kind of liked it) but for a more informed, intelligent opinion I’d point you to Tom Shales’ review in today’s Post.
These two videos have more then likely been out for a while but this is my first time seeing them. The first, featuring Ari and Lloyd is fantastic. The second, with Drama and Turtle, is decent. Both after the jump. Enjoy.
Irony: I’m in L.A. for two weeks and yet I miss seeing my favorite show Entourage, a show based in/about L.A. because I’m out here.