I just have to say that The Inspector Lewis Series on Masterpiece Mystery is some of the best television there is. Too bad it's on PBS and, therefore, has a relatively small following compared to, say, The Mentalist or Law and Order SUV.
Why The Inspector Lewis series, set in Oxford, England, is vastly more compelling than the bucket-load of mysteries on American television is, well, a mystery to me. Oh, I know why I find it so - better writing, superior characters, lovely photography, considerably more depth, but the question is why can't American mystery dramas be more like the Inspector Lewis Masterpiece Mysteries on PBS?
Sad to say, I think we all know the answer to that question - the audience. But maybe television producers are selling the American viewers short. From what I see, even on Facebook and Twitter, the American audience is a bit sharper than television producers think. The overblown and predictable dramas on American television leave little to the imagination - the audience has little sense of participation. I wonder what would happen if Inspector Lewis and Sergeant Hathaway showed up on ABC?
On second thought, I guess it's best to leave Inspector Lewis on PBS. The commercials would destroy the dramatic flow.
There is a former PBS thriller coming to ABC network television. At least the pilot is being filmed. Known as Spooks in Britain the PBS series was known here (and loved on PBS) as MI-5. Oh, I'm starting to cringe just thinking of how the American version will devour the beauty of the original.
Now I believe more than ever that American paws should never get their claws into Inspector Lewis and Sergeant Hathaway. And there's no mystery why.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Horrific! Indecent! President Obama Swims Without a Shirt!
Glad to see so many republicans concentrating on the stark horror of President Obama shirtless in a beach picture (much as JFK famously appeared on the cover of LIFE, I believe). See Jake Tapper's article at POLITICAL PUNCH, his ABC blog where you will find the new cover of the May, 2009 issue of The WASHINGTONIAN.
In reading the comments (playground snipes) following the article, I suspect the majority of comments were pounded out on defenseless keyboards by right wing Christians who are so terrified of life they shiver in their timbers over catching a chill on a sunny day. The outrage they express and the oh so personal venom spit at the president is different and more dangerous than the left's anger with George W. Bush. Bush ambled along unmarked until the Iraq invasion. With Obama-bashing, however, one sees the green-eyed monster thriving in the fertile ground of the insatiable right-wing hunger for approval. They appear to be against everything that isn't "them." Bitter, clinging to guns and religion. Ouch, did that ever hit home.
Please,fearful ones, instead of praying every day will be "the end of days," nut up to life here and now, show adult courage. Stifle the whimpering; go forth and rejoice in life. You might even wander down to the beach and, God forbid, take off your shirt!
I supposed Jake Tapper, who wrote the article about the shirtless President Obama, knows how to generate traffic which, no doubt, is a fine craftsman's tool. Still, I say, it's a shame ABC is fomenting another vacant story to stir up the end-timers who are sexually repressed beyond belief as it is.
I ask myself, why is 35% percent of an electorate, one that was thoroughly rejected in the last election, getting so much airplay? Why is the corporate media stirring the pot with every wedge issue it can find? Is the right truly determined to bring down this country? Is it true that corporate media has been co-opted by Republicans?
That would be enough for anyone to strip naked, put their hair on fire and pray for the end or days.
In reading the comments (playground snipes) following the article, I suspect the majority of comments were pounded out on defenseless keyboards by right wing Christians who are so terrified of life they shiver in their timbers over catching a chill on a sunny day. The outrage they express and the oh so personal venom spit at the president is different and more dangerous than the left's anger with George W. Bush. Bush ambled along unmarked until the Iraq invasion. With Obama-bashing, however, one sees the green-eyed monster thriving in the fertile ground of the insatiable right-wing hunger for approval. They appear to be against everything that isn't "them." Bitter, clinging to guns and religion. Ouch, did that ever hit home.
Please,fearful ones, instead of praying every day will be "the end of days," nut up to life here and now, show adult courage. Stifle the whimpering; go forth and rejoice in life. You might even wander down to the beach and, God forbid, take off your shirt!
I supposed Jake Tapper, who wrote the article about the shirtless President Obama, knows how to generate traffic which, no doubt, is a fine craftsman's tool. Still, I say, it's a shame ABC is fomenting another vacant story to stir up the end-timers who are sexually repressed beyond belief as it is.
I ask myself, why is 35% percent of an electorate, one that was thoroughly rejected in the last election, getting so much airplay? Why is the corporate media stirring the pot with every wedge issue it can find? Is the right truly determined to bring down this country? Is it true that corporate media has been co-opted by Republicans?
That would be enough for anyone to strip naked, put their hair on fire and pray for the end or days.
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