May 08, 2007

Thoughts on Recent TV

"The Sopranos" had its best episode of the year last night. Just enough plot, just enough action, and just enough of the season's overarching theme, namely, "we're all doomed, we're just not sure how." My two favorite parts of the episode? Christopher constantly bringing up Adriana, and Carmela reading Fred Barnes' Bush book in bed. The latter made me laugh for about five minutes straight.

Meanwhile, "24" last night featured its first good episode in about ten weeks. I'd seen collapses like "24"'s this year, but usually they're not this quick. Last night saw hints of more mediocrity- not one, but two couples had to discuss their relationship problems during a hostage crisis- but then the last 25 minutes were a return to the exciting, nerve-wracking "24" we all remember. And since the show has access this season to one of the best villain actors alive (James Cromwell), it was nice that they, you know, actually used him again. They'd wasted him more in the last two months than "Spider-man 3" did.

And finally, this weekend also saw the best "Entourage" of the year. But how did it take until Season 4 for them to play the "Ari runs back and forth between two synagogues to close a deal" card?

Posted by Stephen Silver at May 8, 2007 04:29 PM
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I would say that Ari and the Hebrew Hammer's covert Yom Kippur operations went a lot better than when Larry David tried to buy Rosh Hashanah tickets from a scalper.

Posted by: LilB at May 8, 2007 06:43 PM
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