So Brandy and I are sitting here watching Nip/Tuck from Netflix. If you haven't seen it, my descriptions of it might not make you want to. However, I think it is a very compelling show and if you have any fondness for TV drama, it's one of the best you'll ever see. Also, if you enjoy excruciatingly painful moments - slow action shots of eyelids being severed is only part of the story - that rip your heart out, you should give this show a look-see.
The show is about two plastic surgeons in Miami and their f'ed up lives - wives, children, lovers, psychopathic stalkers. But really its about the lengths that we go to to remove the demons that keep us from being what we think we should be. Everyone is looking for something to make their lives more meaningful. Christian is addicted to sex. Matt is in love with a transexual who had a sex change to be with the man who didn't want him/her because he/she had a 'johnson'. It's pure victorian high drama - kind of like Wuthering Heights with lots of sex and blood. 'Intense' is the best descriptor I can think of.
Then there's The Office (U.K. or U.S. version...take your pick). Brandy rightly described it as 'painful'. You betcha. But it's a pain that for some reason makes us laugh. It's like somehow when Michael Scott (or David Bren) says the absolutely worst possible thing at the worst possible moment, we know that no one is really going to be hurt by it. Someone may be offended, but everyone knows that Michael (or David) is an ass, and well, we can't be hurt by those more pathetic than we are. Okay, maybe that's not true, but in an ideal world it would be. Our bumbling President couldn't get innocent people killed because he doesn't understand logic, or conservative right-wingers wouldn't keep two people from being together just because they're afraid of their own sexuality (ugh, right wing sex...bad mental picture). I guess fiction gives us a world we can look at objectively so we don't have to be so focused on our own.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
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