SFU- it's been better this year. Not as great as the early days of the series, but a marked improvement over last season's debacle. But judging by the ratings so far this year, not many others think so. (Great, Onion-like headline in the Chicago Tribune: "HBO Discovers It May Be TV After All").
My favorite part of last night's episode: as Claire and Billy celebrated in their apartment after Billy's shopping spree, I recognized the music playing in the background- for it was the same ditty from that Capital One credit card commercial a few years ago with the monkeys stealing the interest money and going on a spending spree. I didn't know the name of the song - it goes "AYE AYE AYE! AYEAYEAYEAYE!"- until I checked the music credits: it's called (yes) "Monkey Man," and it's by The Specials.
And apparently Capital One's interest-stealing monkeys are still hiding somewhere: in an earlier scene of the episode, Claire's credit card was declined.
Posted by Stephen Silver at June 22, 2005 02:21 AMEven though we pay through the nose for HBO all year, I cannot force myself to change the channel to SFU. (Now, for Deadwood, it's locked on ten minutes before show time.) The last 2 years were so hideous, so tedious, the Lisa character so revolting, Brenda's whacked-out-ness so overdone and Nate's posturing so overblown, ad infinitum, ad nauseum...ARGHHH! Us hateses nasties funeral homesers!
Posted by: tree hugging sister at June 22, 2005 09:11 AMIt's my favorite show on television but the move to Monday night was so dumb. It's a classic Sunday, 9pm show. I can imagine they've lost many viewers because of the move.
Posted by: Karol at June 22, 2005 01:59 PM