- Vanity Fair has named the best movie soundtracks, and Purple Rain came out on top. I’d like to say something snarky and rude, just on principle, but I really can’t. They got this one spot on. Thankfully, I can take exception with the inclusion of The Big Chill or American Graffiti. Using popular songs from the decade in which the film is set does not qualify as an original soundtrack. It’s called a mix tape.
- CBS has announced the contestants in the only reality show I can still respect myself for watching, The Amazing Race. It looks like they’re relying on their tried and true formula: we have the hot blonde chicks, the father-daughter team, and the longtime couple that have decided the best way to find out if they are meant to be together forever is to go on a grueling reality show. This year, they’ve also expanded their cookie-cutter casting to include two lesbian Episcopalian ministers and a pair of St. Louis goths, Kynt and Vyxsin (though I’m dubious of that last pair — can you really be called goth if you’re wearing that much pink?). Yes, Vyxsin. My own name suddenly seems so drab and gray.
- Following on yesterday’s post about the current weaknesses of Prison Break, Fox has announced that, rather than fixing what is already broken, they will rely on the surefire crowd-pleaser of a new show set in a women’s prison. I’m sure it will be a carefully constructed allegory about the societal restrictions that imprison all women and not at all exploitative. Also, it’s called Cherry Hill. Feel free to make your own jokes below.
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October 25th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Dear Prison Break Executives,
Please stop with the shameful cashing in on an already stretched to the limits of belief series.
Thank you,
Me.
There’s bound to be shower scenes of some sort, with beautiful naked ladies cavorting about, and lesbian affairs, and a really evil leader of the pack that she some how wins over with her wits and cigarettes. I have so much faith in man, don’t I? Also, ‘Cherry Hill’? No comment.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
This is a show that needed to have an end game in place before they shot the very first episode, and it’s becoming more and more obvious that they’re making it up as they go along. This sudden spin-off is clear proof of that.
If it ever makes it onto the air, we’ll have to start a pool on how long it will take for each of those clichés to appear.
October 28th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
That’s so true about the end game. I think, originally, they did, because it was supposed to be just a 13 episode mid-season filler. And then people actually watched it and liked it. Then they needed to flush it out for an entire season, and that did well. And so the cashing in began. Now it’s just floating about with no real point. It had real suspense with Lincoln on death row and would they make it out in time. It had some suspense when Mahone was chasing them. Now it’s just LJ in need of rescue really, and I’m already bored of it. And yet I continue to watch…
I’m totally up for the pool, should Cherry Hill ever materialise.