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I am watching these two episodes and i want to hear what anybody else has to say. First is the Pilot for House of Lies starring Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle, Kristen Bell and Emmy winner Ben Schwartz. Then there is the second season premire of Shameless starring Academy Award nominee William H. Macy and Golden Globe nominee Emmy Rossum. Showtime always has leaked episodes so it not a suprise.
ReplyWhat is wrong with Showtime?
No other network has this problem.
Pilots from other networks leak, but that peaked in 2008; it is a rarity for a Showtime season premiere (and often the episode after it) not to leak.
Even shows like Dexter have stuff leaked and it is in its sixth season!
The worst one is probably Californication, which has been known to keep leaking over the course of the season.
ReplyCopy URLYou realizes that Showtime does this on purpose?
They reach only about 15 million subscribers, and only roughly 4 million of the said subscribers are even aware that Showtime actualy makes original series. Of those 4 million, only a little less than 2 million (on average; Dexter sometimes passes 2 million) actually watch said shows.
They leak purpously for publicity. And Jenji Kohan (Weeds creator) has said that she is okay with it.
ReplyCopy URLYou realizes that Showtime does this on purpose? They reach only about 15 million subscribers, and only roughly 4 million of the said subscribers are even aware that Showtime actualy makes original series. Of those 4 million, only a little less than 2 million (on average; Dexter sometimes passes 2 million) actually watch said shows. They leak purpously for publicity. And Jenji Kohan (Weeds creator) has said that she is okay with it.
While this is definitely possible and maybe probable actually, this has not actually been confirmed and it is worth noting that episodes have leaked prior to completion of post-production. Kohan likes that people are watching her show, but has not spoken to whether Showtime is the one doing it.
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Just started watching the pilot for “House Of Lies”. Man, these first 5 minutes so far are TERRIBLE. Stupid, clumsy expositional dialogue and some cheesy original score (thankfully, soon replaced by Beastie Boys). But at least there’s Don Cheadle’s ass. A nice ass. Let’s hope for more than that…
EDIT: Oh, and they break the wall 2 times in five minutes. For more exposition, and Cheadle acting smug. Didn’t like the way they use it so far.
ReplyCopy URLFinished watching it. And yeah, it’s bad. The plot is just so contrived, the dialogue is too expositional and tries too hard to be funny and/or insightful, the original score sounds like it came from a porn movie, and none of the performances were interesting. The stuff with his effeminate son auditioning for “Grease” could work with better writing, but here it’s just an excuse for a bit of quirk. And the whole sequence in the restaurant just awful.
Unless it improves drastically in the following episodes, I just don’t see critics or the Emmys giving this any kind of attention.
ReplyCopy URLWell, if the show is good for nothing else, at least it’ll be good for annoying my mom with it’s portrayal of management consultants (my mom is a management consultant).
Oh, she’ll be extremely annoyed! I’m not familiar with this line of work, but even I could tell they way they showed was unrealistic and so silly.
And I don’t think Cheadle will be nominated, even though he’s a past Oscar nominee. This pilot just screams flop, and there’s nothing particularly interesting about his character or his performance. Like I said in a earlier post, this will have to be leaps and bounds better than the pilot to get any kind of attention.
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