Summer TV: The $treet; Hulu Update
Thanks to a link from thunder_nari, I've been watching The $treet on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/user/bison1203). Get it before it's taken down!
It's about Wall Street in 2000 (and, in retrospect, it's kind of scary because they don't know about the Hard Rain that's Gonna Fall in 2001.) As the truly obsessed will know, it's essential for any Sean Maher completist. He's sixth- or seventh-billed, and has a significant ongoing role.
The show is a lot of stupid fun, demonstrating that Life really is just High School with Loadsamoney. Darren Star is the producer, which pretty much tells you what you need to know. YouTube is the perfect venue, because each episode is in five slices. So theoretically you can watch one and then go do something productive with your time, although so far I've seen 6 out of the 11 episodes, and the question isn't whether I'll watch to the end of the episode, it's whether I'll open another bag of televisual popcorn.
It's a soapy saga of Overaged Fratboys and the Stunning, Brilliant, and Very Aggressive Women Who Intimidate them. There was a thread a couple of weeks ago about working-class characters in TV dramas, and interestingly enough Sean Maher plays one of them--he's a trader who feels extremely insecure not just because he's $6.5M down for the year but because he's the only guy on the trading floor who hasn't even been to college, much less have an MBA. He has an on-again-off-again relationship with the receptionist, who reminds him that they're from the same neighborhood, and she wants to be a trader instead of a receptionist, but her family is pressuring her to get married instead of having a career. (She's played by the very charming Melissa de Souza, who I haven't seen in anything else.) They're just Jenny and Joey from the block! They're sweet together--sort of like Courtney and Gev, the Cute Short People. BTW I quite like Giancarlo Esposito in this and hated him in HLOTS--maybe he just needed to be in a worse show to look better.
I checked to see if Hulu.com had taken down Burn Notice now that the new season has started, but in fact, they still have all of S1 up AND 201, so yay! And they have 12 episodes of The Dresden Files, which I suspect = "all of them" and 117 episodes of Highlander, through S6, which is probably all of them too.
PS--the Experimental Chard Tart is in the oven, I'll let you know how it turned out.
It's about Wall Street in 2000 (and, in retrospect, it's kind of scary because they don't know about the Hard Rain that's Gonna Fall in 2001.) As the truly obsessed will know, it's essential for any Sean Maher completist. He's sixth- or seventh-billed, and has a significant ongoing role.
The show is a lot of stupid fun, demonstrating that Life really is just High School with Loadsamoney. Darren Star is the producer, which pretty much tells you what you need to know. YouTube is the perfect venue, because each episode is in five slices. So theoretically you can watch one and then go do something productive with your time, although so far I've seen 6 out of the 11 episodes, and the question isn't whether I'll watch to the end of the episode, it's whether I'll open another bag of televisual popcorn.
It's a soapy saga of Overaged Fratboys and the Stunning, Brilliant, and Very Aggressive Women Who Intimidate them. There was a thread a couple of weeks ago about working-class characters in TV dramas, and interestingly enough Sean Maher plays one of them--he's a trader who feels extremely insecure not just because he's $6.5M down for the year but because he's the only guy on the trading floor who hasn't even been to college, much less have an MBA. He has an on-again-off-again relationship with the receptionist, who reminds him that they're from the same neighborhood, and she wants to be a trader instead of a receptionist, but her family is pressuring her to get married instead of having a career. (She's played by the very charming Melissa de Souza, who I haven't seen in anything else.) They're just Jenny and Joey from the block! They're sweet together--sort of like Courtney and Gev, the Cute Short People. BTW I quite like Giancarlo Esposito in this and hated him in HLOTS--maybe he just needed to be in a worse show to look better.
I checked to see if Hulu.com had taken down Burn Notice now that the new season has started, but in fact, they still have all of S1 up AND 201, so yay! And they have 12 episodes of The Dresden Files, which I suspect = "all of them" and 117 episodes of Highlander, through S6, which is probably all of them too.
PS--the Experimental Chard Tart is in the oven, I'll let you know how it turned out.