Big Pipe's easy. Dry land's hard.

It's been a while since I've said anything about all the summer TV.

Is anyone out there watching the summer cable dramas?  I'm good and hooked on a bunch of them, a few I'm hanging on to see how they go.  And WEEDS has just begun! Happy!

It goes without saying that everything below is spoiler-ridden, you have been warned.

( I actually enjoyed JOHN FROM CINCINNATI. So sue me. Guess I'm in the minority. )

( BIG LOVE is just blowing my mind.  )

( A few comments about the new cable shows starring fantabulous actresses Glenn Close, Holly Hunter and Lili Taylor.  )

( What can I say that hasn’t already been said about FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS? )

( Saving the best for last: there is MAD MEN. )

Now I’ll leave you with a bit of dialogue between MAD MEN Don Draper and his boss Roger Sterling, played out near the end of last week’s ep (S1x04).  Bottom’s up.

Both men are sitting with their end-of-day whiskeys in hand.

Sterling: You don’t know how to drink, your whole generation.  You drink for the wrong reasons.  My generation, we drink because it’s good. Because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar. Because we deserve it. We drink because it’s what men do.

Draper: What about shaky hands? I see a lot of that too with you boys…

S: No joke! Your kind, with your gloomy thoughts and your worries – you’re all busy licking some imaginary wound.

D: Not all imaginary…

S: Yeah, boo hoo.

D: Maybe I’m not as comfortable being powerless as you are.

Pubertus strikes again!

ROFLMAO

Thanks gdg for the find.  I can't wait to see what these guys do with BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, heh...

ETA: the first version of this I put up got pulled.  If this one gets taken down, search for Robot Chicken Harry Potter Pubertus.  Or just Pubertus - that will also find it.

I don't know Butchie instead.

Addendums to previous post:

Someone (hmmm who could it be) has created a site that is posting entire FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS eps...for freeeeeeee...

Someone at Variety agrees with me about the depth and breadth of JOHN FROM CINCINNATI...and more on Zack Whedon's (Joss' brother) involvement with DEADWOOD & JfC...

HBO has announced their next project with David Milch, a 1970s/Vietnam era cop show which sounds like it will have some anti-war undertones (or, knowing Milch, OVERTONES).