Ed here: I gave this series a full season and then stopped watching it. Did even Warren Beatty get laid this much? It teetered right on the edge of self-parody. It ultimately reminded me of how Jerry Seinfeld parodied the Eagles' "Desperadoes." Yeah if there was ever a group of real cowhands and gunfighters it was the Eagles all right.
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For many of you the 4th of July holiday begins today. What better way to celebrate than with Friday Questions?
Dodgerdog has one near and dear to my heart:
Both "Episodes" and "Californication" have story arcs involving television writers getting it on with hot young actresses on their shows. (Hilarity ensues.)
The public is well aware that movie producers and directors often have "special" relationships with star actresses, but in films, the writers tend not to be around for the shoot, whereas in TV, the writers are always there (along with the producers and directors of course).
No question David Duchovny and Stephen Mangan are attractive guys. My question: since television writers are writing these shows, how much of this is from their own or observed experience as television writers, and how much is wishful fantasy?
There’s an old joke – Did you hear about the Polish actress who tried to get ahead in Hollywood by sleeping with writers?
But CALIFORNICATION is as realistic as I DREAM OF JEANIE is. Actually, I DREAM OF JEANIE is more realistic.
Charles H. Bryan asks:
2 comments:
I find this one of the most obnoxious shows I have ever watched. You couldn't pay me to watch it again.
Now EPISODES I like.
And, fwiw, most of the folks involved here are writer-producers, very much including David Kelley (who in looks probably more than talent, at least, had to be a step up for Pfeiffer after Fisher Stevens).
Yes, for a very brief while, CALIFONICATION was slightly more witty than it was a masturbatory fantasy, but that was a very brief while indeed.
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