this could only happen to me
I am getting that itchy, unsatisfied feeling that generally leads to writing, which is good, since I haven't done any since my panicked remix on May 1. I haven't even had the files open.
I watched the first episode of the second season of Treme this morning. Oh my god, why is Sonny still around? And why did they add Jon Seda? I want to give him the benefit of the doubt - the character is not the actor and I know it's irrational to take my hatred of Falsone out on Seda - but so far I just want to punch him in the face. Needs more LaDonna and more Janette and more Toni and less Davis and Sonny. Lovely to see everyone else again.
I read that AV Club essay about how The Good Wife is a worthy successor to The Wire, and while I love TGW, I can't get behind that at all. I mean, TGW is always going to be about Alicia, when it comes right down to it, whereas The Wire was designed and built to cast a wide net. Also, there's nothing about TGW that anchors it to Chicago the way The Wire had to be set in Baltimore. I mean, it's not even filmed in Chicago! Whereas Treme, despite not having the same kind of plot driven structure, seems a much more likely successor to me, and not just because it's also a David Simon production, or because it's intrinsically tied to its location and, like The Wire, couldn't be set anywhere other than the city in which it's set.
TGW isn't concerned with race, for example, and certainly not with the systemic racism of our institutions. It's better when it doesn't address the topic, because it tends not to handle it well. Whereas race and systemic oppression by institutions are at the core of both The Wire and Treme (likely because they're front and center concerns of Simon's).
I think TGW does a good job with having well-written, fleshed out female characters who have agency driving the action, and that it does a pretty good job addressing the various ways women in our society cope with being women in a sexist society, but with the exception of Kalinda, they're mostly white, middle or upper class women. They've done poorly by Wendy Scott Carr and Natalie Flores, and there really haven't been any other women of color who've recurred.
Anyway, here's an article in the NY Times about the women of The Good Wife, and here's a brief interview with the showrunners of The Good Wife in NY Magazine, where you can also find an interview with Dan Harmon of Community.
In other tv news, I finished my latest A:TLA rewatch yesterday and now I immediately want to start again, or at least start again with "The Blind Bandit." Maybe I'll do that now.
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I watched the first episode of the second season of Treme this morning. Oh my god, why is Sonny still around? And why did they add Jon Seda? I want to give him the benefit of the doubt - the character is not the actor and I know it's irrational to take my hatred of Falsone out on Seda - but so far I just want to punch him in the face. Needs more LaDonna and more Janette and more Toni and less Davis and Sonny. Lovely to see everyone else again.
I read that AV Club essay about how The Good Wife is a worthy successor to The Wire, and while I love TGW, I can't get behind that at all. I mean, TGW is always going to be about Alicia, when it comes right down to it, whereas The Wire was designed and built to cast a wide net. Also, there's nothing about TGW that anchors it to Chicago the way The Wire had to be set in Baltimore. I mean, it's not even filmed in Chicago! Whereas Treme, despite not having the same kind of plot driven structure, seems a much more likely successor to me, and not just because it's also a David Simon production, or because it's intrinsically tied to its location and, like The Wire, couldn't be set anywhere other than the city in which it's set.
TGW isn't concerned with race, for example, and certainly not with the systemic racism of our institutions. It's better when it doesn't address the topic, because it tends not to handle it well. Whereas race and systemic oppression by institutions are at the core of both The Wire and Treme (likely because they're front and center concerns of Simon's).
I think TGW does a good job with having well-written, fleshed out female characters who have agency driving the action, and that it does a pretty good job addressing the various ways women in our society cope with being women in a sexist society, but with the exception of Kalinda, they're mostly white, middle or upper class women. They've done poorly by Wendy Scott Carr and Natalie Flores, and there really haven't been any other women of color who've recurred.
Anyway, here's an article in the NY Times about the women of The Good Wife, and here's a brief interview with the showrunners of The Good Wife in NY Magazine, where you can also find an interview with Dan Harmon of Community.
In other tv news, I finished my latest A:TLA rewatch yesterday and now I immediately want to start again, or at least start again with "The Blind Bandit." Maybe I'll do that now.
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people have commented there.