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Sunday, September 14, 2003
Circus Okay, so HBO's new series Carnivale is just about as bad as they come. Well, maybe not -- it's not nearly as unwatchable as Mind of a Married Man. But what's sad is that after you get past all the inevitable Twin Peaks/David Lynch comparisons ... nothing is left. UglyTown authors know that I've been fond of asking recently "what's the Laura Palmer of this story?" What I mean is that whether you're doing crime fiction or not, your story has to have some kind of hook to get you going and keep you going. Twin Peaks -- with all of its strangeness -- had one of the best: Who killed Laura Palmer? That's all you need to know. Carnivale is all flash and no substance, no Laura Palmer, and easily one of the tinniest scripts I've heard in ages.
Immediately following that is K Street. And because I'm not a TV reviewer and this is not a TV review column, I have to say that I couldn't finish watching it. Not because it wasn't good -- it certainly looks way more interesting than Carnivale -- but because of the blending of reality TV with a political drama.... I don't know. Maybe I should be happy. I believe in fiction way more than I believe in "the real world," but when a candidate for President of the U.S. appears as a celebrity in a fictionalized take on the real race for the Presidency -- AS IT'S HAPPENING ... well, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Are these the people voting for Schwarzenegger? Or the people who want you to believe that he's making a circus of politics? // posted at
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