Tuesday, September 21
Emmy's 2004...LOL?
Television fans around the world woke up from their lengthy slumber to tune in to this year's Emmy Awards...and I didnt disappoint myself when i found myself goin to work instead of takin a day off from it...gosh some television i am LOL...
Sometimes i do ask myself why the hell do i bother watchin the Emmy's...it's such a fuckin load of hog-wash...just as i dont care how you can blindfold a g00k with a thread...i dont fuckin give a hoot how the Emmys have historically preferred endearin dramas that rake in the cash and are popular to boot...i look at the nominees...laugh and get back to whatever i was doin...the nominees are no longer excitin...where's the freshness?
All i smell is stale fish...i find myself groanin at the choice of nominees half the time...Academy members must be paid to go against the grain...they're a creature of habit...each year viewers are treated to the usual plethora of 'same-old same old' actors/actresses/series...if i must force myself to watch another James Gandolfini/Allison Janney/The Practice farce of a nomination i'd develop a clogged artery...
Then again...'stalwarts' like James, Allison and The Practice just doesnt seem to wana go away...these dog-eared creeps just take the shine and honor from more deservin nominees...i mean...for fuck's sakes...James has won like 3 Best Actors? Allison 2 Best Supportin Actresses and The Practice like 1,230,293 Best Drama? We really dont care anymore if they win again!!
Why cant those blasted Academy old farts pry their fuckin eyes open and clean those wax out of their ears and see/listen what's the REAL deal out there? For starters...
1) The Gilmore Girls and Lauren Graham
The dramedy depicts the lives of a wonderful single mother-and-daughter team and their friends in the whimsical town of Star Hollows drew lots of acclaim from critics and pundits alike...yet curiously was panned by the Academy...The Gilmore Girls was one of the more enjoyable 7th Heaventh-like drama i enjoyed...the humor was sharp and fast...the romance sweet...and the relationship between the 2 spoke so much that it even revolutionized the way a single mother should bring her child up...
Lauren Graham is unfortunate to be passed up on an Emmy nomination again...i feel that categorizing The Gilmore Girls into the Best Comedy award puts Lauren up against the a lot of heavyweights (read: the 4 women from Sex and the City, the 2 women from Everybody Loves Raymond, the 3 women from Friends, 1 woman from Will & Grace, 1 woman from Malcolm in the Middle, and im just mentionin the bigwigs.)...her performance as a sufferin single mother with a wit to match is the stuff made fit for Best Drama...in any case...my heart goes out to Lauren...
2) Scrubs
Another dramedy portrayin the misadventures of 3 interns in a mildly psychotic Sacred Hearts hospital...the dark humor...insane and ridiculous situations they get themselves into...serves as an insightful peek into the stressful life in the hospital...always charmingly funny...Scrubs simply had me crackin up...
3) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sarah Michelle Gellar
Need i say more? All my friends would know what a huge fan i am of the WB (and until it's recent demise...UPN) series...laugh or not...im still supremely dissappointed at the way the Academy dismissed BtVS as a kiddy show with an even kiddier moniker to boot...with only 2 pathetic 'scientific' Emmys to show for...BtVS...at its peak in early 2000...towered over every other drama in primetime in writin, directin and actin...
No other show in the world has inspired readers...writers and professors alike to explore the philosophical nature of Buffy and how it parallels real life...forcin students to study BtVS due to its deep academia...explorin sexism and feminity...pushin the envelope in its support for gay relationships...strangely adult humor...exposure to the often misunderstood religion of Wicca...extravagant exploration of adolescent and post-adolescent traumas that makes grown men cry...gosh i could go and on...waxin lyrical on how NOT FUNNY it is when ppl degenerate into the fuckin bigots they are and point out how ridiculous it is to have attractive teens drivin a stake through vampires' hearts...
The Academy crew needs to be fuckin fired...taken out to the hills...blindfolded and shot in cold-blood...FUCKIN WHORES also need to learn to read...if ABC, NBC, CBS and HBO are the only letters they can remember...what chance would UPN and WB have against those imcumbents??
Sarah's repeated passin over as a nominee is a fuckin travesty...her multi-dimensional and soulful take on a character that she practically wore for 7 whole seasons could have taken on any other nominees of the same category combined...provided she was nominated by the blind Academy members that is...
When i grow old and am bout to die...i'll say a 'lil prayer to the Old Man up there...and tell him to bless SMG...whatever she does in her next life deserves a fuckin nomination for a major category...and oh yeah to send all those Academy members to a flamin Hell...
4) Angel
If BtVS was the face and vibrant personality of creator Joss Whedon's world...then Angel is the heart and soul of it...if i get heckles and ridicule from people just by tellin them how much i love BtVS...i get clueless wide-eyed expressions or the "Oh-Ive-Heard-Of-It-But-Never-Watched-It" smirk...oh sheesh the things ya missin out on...
Always a darker and more noir version of BtVS...Angel alienated a lot of BtVS fans in the first season...indeed i found myself strugglin to come to terms with it...BtVS's world was...though never happy...light and campy...whereas Angel was cloudy and more adult...i found myself sufferin from 'BtVS humor' withdrawal symptoms early on...but persevered...afterall...how can one consider himself a true Joss Whedon fan if he doesnt gravitate to BtVS's spin off?
The protaganist of the show...Angel...had left Sunnydale (the ficititious world of BtVS) at the end of the 3rd season to forget Buffy...endin up in Los Angeles...only to find more trouble...worries...and friends...some from the BtVS alumni...
By the end of the season...and seasons thereafter...Angel had grown on me...what makes Angel believable is the downright honest themes of Good vs Evil...however fanciful the story arc is...the viewers are never coddled and mollified into believin whatever they see is plain old gibberish...the battle of Good vs Evil takes on gargantuan proportions...the very mature and adult themed violence, sexual themes and graphic images that put even Discovery Channel to shame made for several years of scary and suspenseful drama...numerous crossovers from BtVS world just spiced things up...
Indeed Angel has had more respect within the television fraternity...winnin many accolades for excellent technical writin...which is a huge shame when compared with BtVS...im not sayin BtVS's writin is better...but...again...i believe BtVS is only constantly passed over coz it sounds really stupid...
5) The Shield
Yes...The Shield has been nominated in major categories in recent years...but to my dismay it was passed up for some spiffy men in a White House/bald man in a gangster drama or more spiffy men in a law firm this year...Michael Chiklis thoroughly deserved his nomination and win for his portrayal of Vic Mackay...a volatile self-styled maverick of a cop who heads the Strike Team to rid of crime in a scum-infested district of Los Angeles...Vic runs things his own way...constantly at loggerheads with the authorities...bendin authority at his own will...findin it hard to draw a thin red line between right and wrong...
The Shield makes no attempt to disguise itself as a shockin and darin drama...indeed...if there was one word to describe creator Shawn Ryan's world...it's violence...pushin the limits of viewer's prime time diet on a weekly basis...The Shield is teemin with gang-bangers...perverts...rapists and killers...for a seasoned TV viewer like me...i found myself flinchin at plots involvin child pornography...serial murders...gangland warfare...homicide...kidnappings and controversial police tactics...
For all it's worth...The Shield probably would have gotten another major nomination had it not being so violent...yes it's the best cop drama out there. Period. (Are you listenin NYPD Blue and Law & Order?)
6) The Simpsons
No...an emphatic NO to Academy members who think The Simpsons deserve a place in Best Animation...for cryin out loud...the funniest comedy
for years deserve a rightful place in Best Comedy.
If somehow by a miracle...one of those Academy members are still alive after being shot dead for not nominatin BtVS...i'll gladly haul him up from his tomb-to-be and slap him silly..."Dude WTF are you smokin? Or are you just dumb?"
I dont wish to go into too much detail bout The Simpsons. If you've been under a rock for the last 10-odd years...then you simply dont deserve to live.
Ridiculously funny and at times disturbingly realistic in its portrayal of the American pop culture and lifestyle...i find myself amazed at the animators' and writers' ability to concoct amazin humor and heart...the dysfunctional and depraved family will always be right up there on my 'To Laugh Along With' comedies...
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My brain's hurtin from all the hurt the myopic Academy members are causin me...i believe there're several more series that i wish to write about...there's the hit series Nip/Tuck (which i wrote about several months back) and the amusin Monk (which i also wrote about)...
TVs are a great source of entertainment for me...ive learnt so much from it...my thinkin and idealogies have also been moulded with the increasingly rich disposal of excellent dramas out in the market...but as long as good dramas are not duly rewarded with the accolades they deserve...the Emmys (and probably the Grammys and Oscars too...wait on my thoughts on that next year) will never be my benchmark for TV excellence...
Television fans around the world woke up from their lengthy slumber to tune in to this year's Emmy Awards...and I didnt disappoint myself when i found myself goin to work instead of takin a day off from it...gosh some television i am LOL...
Sometimes i do ask myself why the hell do i bother watchin the Emmy's...it's such a fuckin load of hog-wash...just as i dont care how you can blindfold a g00k with a thread...i dont fuckin give a hoot how the Emmys have historically preferred endearin dramas that rake in the cash and are popular to boot...i look at the nominees...laugh and get back to whatever i was doin...the nominees are no longer excitin...where's the freshness?
All i smell is stale fish...i find myself groanin at the choice of nominees half the time...Academy members must be paid to go against the grain...they're a creature of habit...each year viewers are treated to the usual plethora of 'same-old same old' actors/actresses/series...if i must force myself to watch another James Gandolfini/Allison Janney/The Practice farce of a nomination i'd develop a clogged artery...
Then again...'stalwarts' like James, Allison and The Practice just doesnt seem to wana go away...these dog-eared creeps just take the shine and honor from more deservin nominees...i mean...for fuck's sakes...James has won like 3 Best Actors? Allison 2 Best Supportin Actresses and The Practice like 1,230,293 Best Drama? We really dont care anymore if they win again!!
Why cant those blasted Academy old farts pry their fuckin eyes open and clean those wax out of their ears and see/listen what's the REAL deal out there? For starters...
1) The Gilmore Girls and Lauren Graham
The dramedy depicts the lives of a wonderful single mother-and-daughter team and their friends in the whimsical town of Star Hollows drew lots of acclaim from critics and pundits alike...yet curiously was panned by the Academy...The Gilmore Girls was one of the more enjoyable 7th Heaventh-like drama i enjoyed...the humor was sharp and fast...the romance sweet...and the relationship between the 2 spoke so much that it even revolutionized the way a single mother should bring her child up...
Lauren Graham is unfortunate to be passed up on an Emmy nomination again...i feel that categorizing The Gilmore Girls into the Best Comedy award puts Lauren up against the a lot of heavyweights (read: the 4 women from Sex and the City, the 2 women from Everybody Loves Raymond, the 3 women from Friends, 1 woman from Will & Grace, 1 woman from Malcolm in the Middle, and im just mentionin the bigwigs.)...her performance as a sufferin single mother with a wit to match is the stuff made fit for Best Drama...in any case...my heart goes out to Lauren...
2) Scrubs
Another dramedy portrayin the misadventures of 3 interns in a mildly psychotic Sacred Hearts hospital...the dark humor...insane and ridiculous situations they get themselves into...serves as an insightful peek into the stressful life in the hospital...always charmingly funny...Scrubs simply had me crackin up...
3) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sarah Michelle Gellar
Need i say more? All my friends would know what a huge fan i am of the WB (and until it's recent demise...UPN) series...laugh or not...im still supremely dissappointed at the way the Academy dismissed BtVS as a kiddy show with an even kiddier moniker to boot...with only 2 pathetic 'scientific' Emmys to show for...BtVS...at its peak in early 2000...towered over every other drama in primetime in writin, directin and actin...
No other show in the world has inspired readers...writers and professors alike to explore the philosophical nature of Buffy and how it parallels real life...forcin students to study BtVS due to its deep academia...explorin sexism and feminity...pushin the envelope in its support for gay relationships...strangely adult humor...exposure to the often misunderstood religion of Wicca...extravagant exploration of adolescent and post-adolescent traumas that makes grown men cry...gosh i could go and on...waxin lyrical on how NOT FUNNY it is when ppl degenerate into the fuckin bigots they are and point out how ridiculous it is to have attractive teens drivin a stake through vampires' hearts...
The Academy crew needs to be fuckin fired...taken out to the hills...blindfolded and shot in cold-blood...FUCKIN WHORES also need to learn to read...if ABC, NBC, CBS and HBO are the only letters they can remember...what chance would UPN and WB have against those imcumbents??
Sarah's repeated passin over as a nominee is a fuckin travesty...her multi-dimensional and soulful take on a character that she practically wore for 7 whole seasons could have taken on any other nominees of the same category combined...provided she was nominated by the blind Academy members that is...
When i grow old and am bout to die...i'll say a 'lil prayer to the Old Man up there...and tell him to bless SMG...whatever she does in her next life deserves a fuckin nomination for a major category...and oh yeah to send all those Academy members to a flamin Hell...
4) Angel
If BtVS was the face and vibrant personality of creator Joss Whedon's world...then Angel is the heart and soul of it...if i get heckles and ridicule from people just by tellin them how much i love BtVS...i get clueless wide-eyed expressions or the "Oh-Ive-Heard-Of-It-But-Never-Watched-It" smirk...oh sheesh the things ya missin out on...
Always a darker and more noir version of BtVS...Angel alienated a lot of BtVS fans in the first season...indeed i found myself strugglin to come to terms with it...BtVS's world was...though never happy...light and campy...whereas Angel was cloudy and more adult...i found myself sufferin from 'BtVS humor' withdrawal symptoms early on...but persevered...afterall...how can one consider himself a true Joss Whedon fan if he doesnt gravitate to BtVS's spin off?
The protaganist of the show...Angel...had left Sunnydale (the ficititious world of BtVS) at the end of the 3rd season to forget Buffy...endin up in Los Angeles...only to find more trouble...worries...and friends...some from the BtVS alumni...
By the end of the season...and seasons thereafter...Angel had grown on me...what makes Angel believable is the downright honest themes of Good vs Evil...however fanciful the story arc is...the viewers are never coddled and mollified into believin whatever they see is plain old gibberish...the battle of Good vs Evil takes on gargantuan proportions...the very mature and adult themed violence, sexual themes and graphic images that put even Discovery Channel to shame made for several years of scary and suspenseful drama...numerous crossovers from BtVS world just spiced things up...
Indeed Angel has had more respect within the television fraternity...winnin many accolades for excellent technical writin...which is a huge shame when compared with BtVS...im not sayin BtVS's writin is better...but...again...i believe BtVS is only constantly passed over coz it sounds really stupid...
5) The Shield
Yes...The Shield has been nominated in major categories in recent years...but to my dismay it was passed up for some spiffy men in a White House/bald man in a gangster drama or more spiffy men in a law firm this year...Michael Chiklis thoroughly deserved his nomination and win for his portrayal of Vic Mackay...a volatile self-styled maverick of a cop who heads the Strike Team to rid of crime in a scum-infested district of Los Angeles...Vic runs things his own way...constantly at loggerheads with the authorities...bendin authority at his own will...findin it hard to draw a thin red line between right and wrong...
The Shield makes no attempt to disguise itself as a shockin and darin drama...indeed...if there was one word to describe creator Shawn Ryan's world...it's violence...pushin the limits of viewer's prime time diet on a weekly basis...The Shield is teemin with gang-bangers...perverts...rapists and killers...for a seasoned TV viewer like me...i found myself flinchin at plots involvin child pornography...serial murders...gangland warfare...homicide...kidnappings and controversial police tactics...
For all it's worth...The Shield probably would have gotten another major nomination had it not being so violent...yes it's the best cop drama out there. Period. (Are you listenin NYPD Blue and Law & Order?)
6) The Simpsons
No...an emphatic NO to Academy members who think The Simpsons deserve a place in Best Animation...for cryin out loud...the funniest comedy
for years deserve a rightful place in Best Comedy.
If somehow by a miracle...one of those Academy members are still alive after being shot dead for not nominatin BtVS...i'll gladly haul him up from his tomb-to-be and slap him silly..."Dude WTF are you smokin? Or are you just dumb?"
I dont wish to go into too much detail bout The Simpsons. If you've been under a rock for the last 10-odd years...then you simply dont deserve to live.
Ridiculously funny and at times disturbingly realistic in its portrayal of the American pop culture and lifestyle...i find myself amazed at the animators' and writers' ability to concoct amazin humor and heart...the dysfunctional and depraved family will always be right up there on my 'To Laugh Along With' comedies...
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My brain's hurtin from all the hurt the myopic Academy members are causin me...i believe there're several more series that i wish to write about...there's the hit series Nip/Tuck (which i wrote about several months back) and the amusin Monk (which i also wrote about)...
TVs are a great source of entertainment for me...ive learnt so much from it...my thinkin and idealogies have also been moulded with the increasingly rich disposal of excellent dramas out in the market...but as long as good dramas are not duly rewarded with the accolades they deserve...the Emmys (and probably the Grammys and Oscars too...wait on my thoughts on that next year) will never be my benchmark for TV excellence...
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