Bored to Death 1:3
In this episode, Johnathan meets with Jim Jarmush and gets a script from him – Jim likes Johnathan’s first novel, and wants him to rewrite this script.
At the beginning of the party, Johnathan makes a comment to a girl who totally brushes him off. Naturally, as soon as she sees him talking to Jim Jarmush, she is in love with him because Jarmush is her favorite director so Johnathan must be super cool, so he goes back to her house with her. He promptly loses the script behind the couch, and her dad walks in so Johnathan takes off without the script. The rest of the episode is pretty much designed around getting the script back.
George, played by Ted Danson, comments several times on Jim Jarmush’s hair, which I love because that man does have some crazy hair! I actually like George quite a bit, I think he might be my favorite character so far.
I’m also wondering, why does Ray (Johnathan’s best, maybe only, friend) wander around the house in his underwear when his girlfriends kids are presumably somewhere?
Ray’s girlfriend wants him to go to therapy, so Johnathan convinces him to go to the place where he lost the script – the girls dad is a therapist. Ray does not come out with the script, and instead feels eviscerated, I believe was how he described it. This forces Johnathan to go in himself to get the script, which he does, but not without threats from the dad…who found the script and knew all along why Johnathan was really there.
In the end, Johnathan does not get the rewrite job because he doesn’t call Jarmush back in time, and Jarmush gives the job to Charlie Kaufman.
There were no detective jobs in this episode, and I was again a little bored. This isn’t the worst show I watch, but it is the one I look forward to the least…and I’m not quite sure how that works out, but it does. I also feel like thirty minutes is not a lot of time for a show, and I’d rather watch more Community when it comes down to it.
