Episode 2 of The Comedians airs tomorrow night on FX. I'll definitely be watching, or at least recording."Last year, according to FX's data, three hundred and fifty-two scripted first-run prime-time and late-night programs aired on broadcast, cable, and streaming networks in the U.S., not including PBS. . . .
It's the birth of the "real" Mike! (Foolish as those other guys are made to look, I'll bet the actors were thrilled to be doing a scene with Jonathan Banks.) In this corner, the next-to-last episode of Season 1 of Better Call Saul registered as a "wow!"by KenThere's been an inordinate amount of crap to wade through on the TV scene, but also some oases. This includes a number that probably deserve -- and may yet get -- individual attention, but which I didn't want to go uncelebrated.WASN'T THAT AN AWESOME BETTER CALL SAUL?"You're not a real lawyer," Chuck McGill says to brother Jimmy.
by KenI feel bad about not keeping readers up to date with the doings of the great Lee Camp, the incredibly agile-minded, perpetually outraged, and fearlessly funny writer and comic.
Episode 15: Inside the Episode -- a lovely one for Doris and Domby KenThe early Season 2 episodes of Looking weren't easy for me. What attracted me to the show in Season 1 had a lot to do with the fact that I felt so comfortable with the characters -- not just because they're (mostly) gay but because they're people whose life struggles I can recognize and easily associate with. This season, not so much.
by KenI thought I was more or less keeping track, but I missed it -- I mean, the pilot-premiere of the new TV Odd Couple. After all, you can't set your DVR before the week of the show, so if you miss the week of, then you can't set your DVR, right? So anyhow I did watch this week's episode, more or less, and after watching it, or trying to, I still don't know -- was it funny at all?I think maybe it could have been.
"In Season 2 he's changing everything up. . . . Maybe he'll add a pony . . . a crime-solving pony."Says John, "We were just really assuming the show was going to be basically the same." The good news: He gets to keep his glasses.by KenThis promo was actually first posted about seven weeks ago, and we're already three weeks into the season it was promo-ing. But it's still maybe the best promo I've ever seen for anything.
Escape from Grand Central: In North by Northwest (made only a couple of years before the dawn of the Age of Mad Men), as Matthew W reminds us, Cary Grant plays an ad man named Roger (seen here trying to slip out of NYC by train; the ticket agent with his bald head to us is that long-enduring character actor Ned Glass).
It's kind of a shame that we already knew that Jimmy McGill going to tangle with this familiar-to-us face, but the producers had to give us something in the name of -- gasp -- publicity, if only to guard the important secrets."You also realize that it wasn’t the drug that made him that way. Deep down inside, he just has anger issues."-- Raymond Cruz, on playing Tuco Salamanca again,but now six years before Breaking Badby KenYou know how I always say I'd like to know as little as possible about a TV show or movie I'm going to watch? Case in point: the premier episode of Better Call Saul.
Rob James-Collier, who plays Thomas Barrow, talks about the fateful plotline for him which came to a climax in this past week's episode, No.
Bob Odenkirk talks to Jimmy Kimmel about Better Call Saul, and shows him some, er, surprising clipsJimmy tells Bob he's really enjoyed the two episodes he was given to watch. Bob tells Jimmy he's only seen one -- but hopes the second one turned out well.
