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You know a play is going to start off badly when the station announcer warns you not to be confused that it starts in the middle of a story. Don’t worry, you won’t haven’t missed anything, she promises, clearly worried the audience isn’t used to difficult concepts or standard Big Finish plot techniques.
She was right, though. It was confusing.
Surprisingly, despite already starting with the second half of an adventure, No More Lies is still a play of two halves. The first one is very stupid and very science-fictiony; the second is a far more emotional, far less stupid affair. In fact, if they’d lopped off that first half (which, of course, was also a second half), it would have been a very good play indeed.
24: Even when a character played by Eddie Izzard is recast, his spirit lives on in the role
30 Rock: Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin speak pretty good German. Inbreeding jokes never get old.
CSI: Left to his own devices for too long, William Petersen will always grow an unfortunate beard.
Daybreak: Was cancelled way too soon. Be patient, networks!
Heroes: Just get on with it will you. Plus Christopher Eccleston really can act when given a grumpy role to play.
House: Sooner or later, the crankiness of a character needs an explanation. He can’t be cranky for no reason at all.
My Name is Earl: Some Americans actually think the US won the 1812 war.
Smallville: Red Kryptonite needs to be in every script from now on.
Studio 60: It’s no use applying the rules of reality to anything Aaron Sorkin writes. You just have to sit back and enjoy it.
In the US: Just about every day of the week. It’s on Comedy Central anyway.
In the UK: Not yet acquired. Maybe E4 or More4. Who knows though?
Apparently, there aren’t enough shows about grown women with the minds of 8-year-old boys. Who knew?
Okay, let’s be a little fairer than that. Sarah Silverman is a very funny stand-up. She’s very imaginative, as is her new Comedy Central program, wisely called The Sarah Silverman Program. I was looking forward to it a lot.
But you know what? It all falls a bit flat. Mainly because I’m not eight years old.
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