Just a wee reminder to UK readers that the excellent, “new Friends” Happy Endings starts tonight on E4. My review of the first ep is here and my fourth-episode verdict is over here.
Definitely watch it, if only for Max. Here’s why – it’s a precis of the sixth episode, in which Max discovers one of his friends might be ‘gaycist’.
For years, women in TV action shows were, shall we say, ‘ornamental’. Not often given much by way of character and what they had often revolving around the hero of the show, they were there to be pretty and give the largely male audience something to look at – or to just be secretaries. The heroes? Some were rugged, admittedly, but others could be old and tired, obsese or even one-armed.
Come the 60s, women began to get something to do, thanks to the likes of Cathy Gale and Emma Peel in The Avengers and Honey West in the eponymously named Honey West. What didn’t happen for a long while was for men to become the eye candy for female viewers, the add-on to the heroine.
That took the 80s and with CBS’s Cover Up, women who had been holding out for a hero finally got what they wanted.
Film
British TV
Canadian TV
US TV
It’s a bit of a personal question, I know, but you’re with friends now, so hopefully you’ll feel safe answering this deceptively simple question:
How much TV do you watch?
I say deceptively simple because TV is such an elusive concept these days. Maybe you only have a TV so you can watch movies. Maybe you watch TV content but on your computer or mobile phone. So let us know what you watch and where you watch it as well.
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog
In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, Fox. Starts 20th September
In the UK: Acquired by E4
There is a law, apparently, than whenever one refers to Zooey Deschanel and in particular her performance in her new Fox sitcom, New Girl, one must describe her as adorable. Am I a law-breaker?
No.
So New Girl sees adorable hipster Zooey Deschanel come home from work early to surprise her boyfriend, only to discover he’s cheating on her. She moves out and finds an apartment on Craigslist that’s shared by three guys. When they discover most of her friends are models, she’s given a quick invite to move in, and before you know it, the adorable, clueless-about-men Zooey is being taught how to pull and date by her new friends as they help her get on her feet again. And in return, they learn a little something about women from her, too.
Is there a big problem with the show? Well, one maybe.
There’s way too much singing. Cue the trailer.
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