"Lemme tell you about our offer, Cissy..."

[proggrrl]

So while it rained cats and dogs here in New York early this morning, I was catching up with Sunday night TV and the Sci-Fi Preview section of the new TV GUIDE magazine.

The new Lifetime show STATE OF MIND, which I watched due to some allegiance to Lili Taylor, was pretty good.  I'd go so far as to say that if you liked the pilot for PRIVATE PRACTICE, the GREY'S ANATOMY spinoff, you will certainly enjoy this show.

Lili was great, and here she gets to play a character who's a lot saner - and more professional - than anything in most of her movies.  She always brings intensity and unspoken depth, and it's bubbling under the surface here too.  The guy playing her friend, Derek Riddle, is also really good and I like the character.  Surprised to see Sheryl "Laura Palmer" Lee in a guest role; and happy to see Theresa Randle here in a recurring support role.  Randle was so stupendous in Spike Lee's traumatizing/haunting 1996 film GIRL 6, and I haven't seen her since.  Glad to know she's still working!

Also watched the latest JOHN FROM CINCINNATI ep.

And...WOW.  Just, wow.

Where to start?  This may be the best show about religion that's ever been on TV.  I really haven't seen anything with this level of metaphor/symbolism on TV since TWIN PEAKS - and this show strikes me as less gimicky, more profound.  It was thrilling to see yet another DEADWOOD alumnus, Paula Malcomson (who played Trixie, the vixenish foil to Ian McShane's Swearengen), pop up on this show as the 'net cafe waitress.  Hope she comes back. 

And boy-o-boy what a fantastic way for Milch to crack open Cissy's (Rebecca DeMornay) entire ballbusting character motivation, huh?  Out there now for us all to see.  DeMornay was incredible at the kitchen sink, just incredible.  But things really kick into metaphorical, philosophical overdrive about 40 minutes in, when John hauls out old Mr. Rollins, gathers the entire cast for a cookout, and gives an incredible speech involving "his father," and "the line and the circle," and sums up the history of human thought - all the way to the ones and the zeroes.

"My father runs the MegaMillions."

Just stupefying.

Here's a BSG tidbit from this new TV GUIDE with Katee on the cover.  Pretty spoilery, unless RDM is just messing with us again. 

I'll just type the whole thing here.  I don't think it's online yet, since TV Guide prolly wants to sell some papers first.

BSG's fourth and final season won't air until next year, but in November die-hard fans will be treated to BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: RAZOR.  The two-hour stand-alone episode - think 300 in deep space - focuses on the killing-machine marines (known as "razors") who man Galactica's sister ship Pegasus under the command of bitch-goddess Helena Cain (Michelle Forbes).  It's a flashback story - Cain met her demise in Season 2, Pegasus in Season 3 - but it will "deliver information fans will want before watching Season 4," says executive producer Ron Moore.  Before the series wraps, D'Anna, the exterminated Cylon played by Lucy Lawless, will return.  And, warns Moore, "we'll be losing cast members in some nasty ways as we push along in the search for Earth."  But will our human heroes really find it?  Notes Moore cagily: "They're going to find something we're calling Earth."  (From page 26)

OK! So D'Anna will return, people will die - and Earth will be...huh?

*shrugs and is a tad sorry she read this*

..."bitch-goddess"? Ha!

Comments

[brokenmnemonic.livejournal.com]

Katee let slip about 3 being back as well in something else.

She also made a throwaway comment that has me going "hrm..." in a thoughtful fashion, but I'm sort of numb to any anticipation at the moment ;)

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

:: covers ears ::

LALALALANOTLISTENINGTOYOULALALALALA

[brokenmnemonic.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I thought when you mentioned the 3 spoiler that meant you wouldn't mind it being confirmed from another source. Forget I said anything.

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

No worries, I was just joking around. Actually I've been TRYING real hard to be a 90% spoiler-virgin for Razor & S4...but I'm the one who opened the damned magazine! Argh!

*g*

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Remember, RDM likes to think he's slick and clever, so don't put too much stock into his Earth comment.

And, just to give you something else to watch, the DVDs are supposed to get there today or tomorrow. :D

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, phooey on RDM...though broken's comment above scares me. Phooey.

RE Farscape - awesome! (nice icon) IDK if you caught this on the skiffy 'minisode' thread - but I poked around and finally found out why Netflix isn't restocking S1. I think the distributor's sales deal has lapsed for the S1 DVD set, and apparently Sony bought it. Perhaps the webisodes are a way of promotion for an upcoming re-packaging & re-release? That'd be nice.

Thanks again for the loan! Couldn't come at a better time cuz I'm 2 eps away from finishing all of LA FEMME NIKITA...

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

*gah*

I *just now* got email that you had responded to this.

I hadn't heard that about Sony, so that's actually a pretty likely thing. Or that there's a re-package and re-release slated to promote the webisodes... I'm really kinda anxious to learn what you think about this silly little muppet show. :P

[einaphets.livejournal.com]

Great tidbits finally coming out regarding BSG. And that's actually a great point, "something we're *calling* Earth" that I had never thought about. When they get to "Earth", there's nothing to say it's OUR Earth. Hmmmm. Great things to think about.

And OMG on JfC! See, I told you it was great. I just have never seen the first episode so I didn't understand the situation with the deceased man. Is that Mr. Rollins? The whole last barbeque scene was sooo complex. I'm going to have to rewatch it several times just to partially get it.

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

These tidbits RDM said to TV Guide make me more wary than ever about staying a "sprigin" (hey, you made up that word, didn't you? *g*)...

I just DO NOT WANT TO KNOW anything else about who dies, or what/where/when Earth is, or anything!

It's hard out here for a Spirgin.

And JfC, sooooo good. I was really bowled over by this ep. From what I'm reading, a lot of viewers are really flummoxed by this episode. It was all pretty clear to me - but then again, I walked out of David Lynch's MULLHOLLAND DRIVE saying the same thing: "that was great, I totally understood it" while all my friends are scratching their heads. Whatever!

Mr. Rollins is long dead at this point; he is the guy who molested Barry in that motel when he was still a teen. Barry was so traumatized by this that he moved back to Imperial Beach as an adult and bought the motel. The room Barry can't bring himself to go into a few eps back? That's the room where "IT" happened.

Well, that's how I SEE IT, anyhoo.

[einaphets.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, the born-again spirgin. :)

I understand the overall picture of the speech scene. I think I'm just overanalyzing and wondering if I missed something in some of the symbolism, like why was Cass posing with a carosel horse, etc. The hotel room now makes sense, thank you, and now I realize there is not an actual dead body that they brought out, but more of a ghost-of-tramas-past.

You obviously more easily see the patterns that boggle the rest of us. Are you Leoben? :)

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

You obviously more easily see the patterns that boggle the rest of us. Are you Leoben? :)

AHAHAHAHA!

I never said I was Leoben. *wink*

:: outright STEALS your FTW icon ::

[einaphets.livejournal.com]

I never said I was Leoben. *wink* LOL

FTW? I'm snerching yours too. Love it.