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proggrrlSo 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.
*shrugs and is a tad sorry she read this*
..."bitch-goddess"? Ha!
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!
