Please to help!
Would someone who has DVD-recording capabilities and access to the Sundance Channel please record both seasons of Slings & Arrows for me? The talented and loverly hecubot and zmayhem kindly gave me a VHS recording of the first season, but hello. Want digital copy so as to index the Paul Gross hottitude. Also badly need to see second season. Macbeth, for the love of all unholiness! Paul Gross being insane and passionate! Theater in-jokes!
I may be obsessed. If so, blame the Zmayhem household. But, pleeeeeeease? bats eyes
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"Slings & Arrows," second-season premiere 8 p.m. Feb. 19, first- season encore marathon 3 p.m. Feb. 18, Sundance Channel.
This Canadian import is searingly spot-on and seems effortlessly great, probably helped by having only six episodes per season.
Revolving around a group of actors at the New Burbage Theatre Festival (purveyors of all things Shakespeare), the series attempts to mix art with commerce, real life with drama. It focuses on Geoffrey (the superb Paul Gross), an actor turned director who ran a theater that stood on its values but never attracted an audience.
He was once as thick as thieves with his mentor, Oliver (Stephen Ouimette), and with the love of his life, fellow thespian (and aging star) Ellen (Martha Burns).
But the bitterly mean Oliver was killed while drunk (he now reappears in death) and Geoffrey had to put away thoughts of selling out and instead become artistic director of the New Burbage Festival, where he manages to pull off "Hamlet" despite myriad woes (Mark McKinney of "Kids in the Hall" and indie film guru Don McKellar also star).
In the second season, all hell continues to break loose while Geoffrey must stage "the most jinxed play in theatrical history" -- "Macbeth."
This may be the most perfect television series ever crafted. I am in love with it like woah.
I may be obsessed. If so, blame the Zmayhem household. But, pleeeeeeease? bats eyes
***********
"Slings & Arrows," second-season premiere 8 p.m. Feb. 19, first- season encore marathon 3 p.m. Feb. 18, Sundance Channel.
This Canadian import is searingly spot-on and seems effortlessly great, probably helped by having only six episodes per season.
Revolving around a group of actors at the New Burbage Theatre Festival (purveyors of all things Shakespeare), the series attempts to mix art with commerce, real life with drama. It focuses on Geoffrey (the superb Paul Gross), an actor turned director who ran a theater that stood on its values but never attracted an audience.
He was once as thick as thieves with his mentor, Oliver (Stephen Ouimette), and with the love of his life, fellow thespian (and aging star) Ellen (Martha Burns).
But the bitterly mean Oliver was killed while drunk (he now reappears in death) and Geoffrey had to put away thoughts of selling out and instead become artistic director of the New Burbage Festival, where he manages to pull off "Hamlet" despite myriad woes (Mark McKinney of "Kids in the Hall" and indie film guru Don McKellar also star).
In the second season, all hell continues to break loose while Geoffrey must stage "the most jinxed play in theatrical history" -- "Macbeth."
This may be the most perfect television series ever crafted. I am in love with it like woah.