Bored to Death 1:8
Posted by dorolerium on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Finally, the season finale. And a boring one at that. Nice that the show lived up to its title.
The big fight is here! Johnathan does not seem that impressive in his practice, but he ends up winning! I was pretty surprised by that.
But before that, he gets a couple of threateningish phone calls from someone telling him to throw the fight. He does the funniest thing of the episode: finds the guy, picks the lock, and gets the thing the guy is blackmailing him with. Well, blackmailing George. For once I liked the detective case of the episode!
Since this is the season finale, I have a story of my own. Some dude called Jonathan Ames is a writer, he’s got one novel out and he’s struggling with his second. He’s freelancing a bit, but mostly just doesn’t write his novel. He gets bored and wants to be a private detective, but knows that’s a lot of work! He’s read detective novels!
Instead of becoming a private detective, Jonathan starts writing a story where he is one, but is also still a writer. There isn’t enough for his second novel, which has a quickly approaching deadline, but wow would it make a clever TV show. The likes of a Charlie Kaufman script! People will be comparing him to Wes Anderson! The show eventually gets picked up, he writes a detective novel, and bores everyone to death.
I read a review of the series somewhere online recently, in which someone compared the show to a Wes Anderson movie with a little bit of Kevin Smith thrown in. Is that really what you want your show to be? I love Wes Anderson, although I will say this show is nothing close to the caliber of The Royal Tenenbaums, and I’d be proud to have something I did compared to his work. But do people *really* want to be like Kevin Smith? Isn’t he a little over? Or maybe it’s just that I’ve never been a fan.
Anyway, this will probably be the last episode of this series I’ll watch. There won’t be any new episodes for like a year, and my guess is I’ll fill the void in my TV schedule with something else. Mind you, I didn’t say something better, I said something else.
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