Thursday, October 11, 2007
Live from New York, it's Thursday night
BOSS! 30 Rock, FIVE, 10.45pm Labels: 30Rock, Five, Mean Girls, TV
The best US series from the 2006-2007 television season debuts this evening on Five. 30 Rock was 'the other' Saturday Night Live-based, backstage show. But unlike Studio 60 On Sunset Strip which was about funny people being very unfunny, 30 Rock took the more radical approach and is actually hilarious. Quite unusual in a season that saw all the ratings go to a show about attractive people who can fly, turn invisible, not die and who are all miserable about it.
As someone who has defined the better part of his life by his hatred of Alec Baldwin, it is difficult to admit that he is amazing here. Promoted by NBC's parent company General Electric to oversee television programming following his stellar work with ovens, Baldwin plays the annoyingly perfect executive with blunt ease. This is the development that starts the series, much to the continual annoyance of producer Liz Lemon (played by SNL alum Tina Fey, the mastermind behind this and the rather good film Mean Girls). Liz is a woman in her thirties who is fiercely independent yet has serious worries about choking alone in her apartment and will buy a hundred and fifty hot dogs just to prove a point.
Around them is a fun cast of characters which includes mentally ill comedian Tracy Jordan (played by SNL alum Tracy Morgan), the wonderfully neurotic Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski from Ally McBeal) and an NBC page who makes everyone uncomfortable with his glowing love of television. Look for ongoing cameos from Rachel Dratch who plays the cat wrangler in the pilot. Keep watching as it only gets better. You'll love it so much you'll take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant.
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Friday, June 01, 2007
So fetch!
TOMORROW! Mean Girls, Channel 4, 9.00pm (Saturday) Labels: Channel 4, films, Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls, TV
Fuck Friday night's television, we've got more important things to talk about. Technically we should probably have done a separate entry for this on Saturday, but we didn't want to run the risk of forgetting. After all, Saturday is our day of snorting cocaine out of the navels of cheap hookers - oh, wait, that's Lindsay Lohan's Saturday. Pre-rehab. Hopefully. Anyway, tomorrow is a very special event: the terrestrial premiere of Mean Girls, otherwise known as one of the greatest movies of the modern world.
It's hard to remember a time when Lindsay Lohan wasn't essentially a human tabloid, constantly mumbling slurred rhetoric about Al Gore and being "adequite", or leaving offensive messages on her MySpace directed at Shanna Moakler, or falling out of cars with no pants on and showing the world her firecrotch, or having very loud public arguments with whichever man she happened to be stepping out with at the time (and while we're on that subject: Calum Best? Really, Lindsay? Why must you try our patience like this? If you thought Jessica's tirade was intense, you ain't seen nothin' yet). But such a time did exist, when Lindsay had the most awesome flowing auburn locks in the world, was a surprisingly underrated actress, and made awesome movies like this one. Sigh.
There are many awesome things about this movie: It will extend your vocabulary (we'd never called anyone a "grotsky biotch", a "scum-sucking roadwhore" or a "fugly slut" until we saw this movie). It has a cast list boasting Tina Fey, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried and Jonathan Bennett. It boasts the single greatest celluloid pratfall we've ever seen (involving a rubbish bin, and we'll say no more than that). It doesn't get any less awesome even after you've watched it 40 times (we can attest to this). It is endlessly quotable. And it's the last truly great film made by the nice Lindsay Lohan, as far as we can remember, before her bizarro alter-ego took control. So in the unlikely event that you haven't already seen it, we strongly recommend you take this opportunity, or we'll like totally call you a whore behind your back. Kisses!
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