I've shamed the master....
Somehow, Wednesday has passed me by....and I failed to make an entry...I'm sure the master has many forms of punishment in mind.... :-)
So...you know how when you're watching a television program (for some time now), and you know that each episode has some sort of underlying theme, but you don't really notice it all of the time. Well, last night, I had one of those SMACK, it's obvious moments....maybe it took some subtle thinking, maybe it didn't. What I found unique, was how all of the different stories, which really had no connection to one another, all had the same theme in the end. Again, it may have always been this obvious, but I can guarantee that I'll be paying close attention from this time forward.
The show I'm talking about, for those of you waiting for me to get to the POINT, is Nip/Tuck on FX - what a GREAT show, by the way....so twisted, I laugh out loud at how ridiculous it gets at times. I mean....where else will you see Vanessa Redgrave get high with her real-life daughter, Natasha Richardson?! (Their on-screen characters are mother/daughter, as well). Last night's show, which you would think is common for a show about plastic surgery, was all about inner beauty....but not so much inner beauty, as inner self or persona....
The main storyline involved a gorilla named Kiki that needed corrective surgery from a scar she received as a baby (yes, they operate on gorilla's too....pro-bono work). In order for her to mate, she needed to appear flawless to the dominant male gorilla. The other two story lines, consisted of the main son character, Matt, who learned that he had been sleeping with a transexual (Famke Jannsen) last season. The final line was about a former gang member, who had his tattoos and gang symbols removed so that he could become a part of "society" again. In the end, they did a great montage where both individuals ended up getting the crap beat out of them (yeah, in some sick way, it was done well). For Matt, it was all about him questioning what he's into (how could he be with a transexual and not tell....is that what attracts him, blah, blah, blah). The gang member, despite what he showed on the outside, could not escape the past that haunted him, and had no luck in finding work, due to his record....they did a cliff-hanger with him, so it will be interesting to see if he reverts back to his old ways, or learns who he is on the inside.
I don't know why that seemed so profound....but for such an odd show, the message was there....
Somehow, Wednesday has passed me by....and I failed to make an entry...I'm sure the master has many forms of punishment in mind.... :-)
So...you know how when you're watching a television program (for some time now), and you know that each episode has some sort of underlying theme, but you don't really notice it all of the time. Well, last night, I had one of those SMACK, it's obvious moments....maybe it took some subtle thinking, maybe it didn't. What I found unique, was how all of the different stories, which really had no connection to one another, all had the same theme in the end. Again, it may have always been this obvious, but I can guarantee that I'll be paying close attention from this time forward.
The show I'm talking about, for those of you waiting for me to get to the POINT, is Nip/Tuck on FX - what a GREAT show, by the way....so twisted, I laugh out loud at how ridiculous it gets at times. I mean....where else will you see Vanessa Redgrave get high with her real-life daughter, Natasha Richardson?! (Their on-screen characters are mother/daughter, as well). Last night's show, which you would think is common for a show about plastic surgery, was all about inner beauty....but not so much inner beauty, as inner self or persona....
The main storyline involved a gorilla named Kiki that needed corrective surgery from a scar she received as a baby (yes, they operate on gorilla's too....pro-bono work). In order for her to mate, she needed to appear flawless to the dominant male gorilla. The other two story lines, consisted of the main son character, Matt, who learned that he had been sleeping with a transexual (Famke Jannsen) last season. The final line was about a former gang member, who had his tattoos and gang symbols removed so that he could become a part of "society" again. In the end, they did a great montage where both individuals ended up getting the crap beat out of them (yeah, in some sick way, it was done well). For Matt, it was all about him questioning what he's into (how could he be with a transexual and not tell....is that what attracts him, blah, blah, blah). The gang member, despite what he showed on the outside, could not escape the past that haunted him, and had no luck in finding work, due to his record....they did a cliff-hanger with him, so it will be interesting to see if he reverts back to his old ways, or learns who he is on the inside.
I don't know why that seemed so profound....but for such an odd show, the message was there....
posted by Jeff P at 14:56
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