First post of the new year (happy 2007!) and I’d like to send out a quick congratulations to whoever it is that writes the summaries for the movies and television shows in the TV Guide put out each week by Brisbane’s Sunday Mail.
In particular, the entry for this week’s episode of Nip/Tuck:
A woman wants surgery to make her look younger.
So, yes, this is a show about 2 plastic surgeons – but in reality only about a minute of each episode is ever devoted to anything as, you know, banal as actual plastic surgery, while the remaining forty-something minutes are usually devoted to Sean and Christian (the two main characters) trying to kill each other, trying to kill themselves and / or trying to avoid being killed by a variety of other surprisingly motivated people.
So, well done to the TV Guide for achieving a Zen-like brevity that would leave even a Buddhist Monk wondering what is the sound made by one hand searching underneath the sofa cushions for the television remote. I look forward to reading the following descriptions in future editions:
CSI: New York – Someone gets killed.
Law & Order, Criminal Intent – Someone else gets killed.
Murder She Wrote – An elderly woman harasses a bunch of people. Also, someone gets killed.
Midsomer Murders – Look, just read the title.
The Love Boat – No-one gets killed. Except for maybe whathisname with the mustache.
Don’t you think the short description for The Love Boat should be – Nobody gets killed but you sure as hell wish they all did.
At least you can flush Wesley into space.
Actually, the thing being murdered on The Love Boat, surely, are the careers of the guest stars? Well, or you could claim that by the time any of them stepped aboard The Pacific Princess their careers were already flatlining in a bad way.
And any episode of Star Trek TNG in which Wesley gets flushed into space, hah!, is an episode I want to watch.
All the best,
Murray @ Midnight
On the “love Boat’ – I was kinda surprised to read recently that Andy Warhol of POP Art, ‘Warhol Superstars’ and ‘Factory’ fame made a guest appearance – he died later that year. Hmmmmmm.
Maybe The Love Boat had Pop Art cred? I seem to recall reading somewhere that Warhol used to throw Batman parties, so who knows.