Here’s the trailer for “V,” slated to air in early ‘10, which ABC played at the upfronts last week. It’s one of the few new shows in the upcoming season that I have any true interest or excitement in. I’m still not sure how it’ll play out — I could see this show being tits, or being a complete waste — but I’ll be tuning in to find out. But if we don’t get to see Alan Tudyk climbing through the airducts watching a Visitor eat a mouse, there’s gonna be some anger around these parts.
(’80s special effects — get some!)
And here’s the trailer for “Eastwick.” While I like the basic idea well enough, this trailer has the show looking the typical ABC too-heavy-with-the-music dramady that tries to cater to the women demographic a bit too strongly, forgetting to respect them in the process (i.e., I chicks would like a little more than eye candy, melodramatic music and faux-empowerment).
This has the potential to make me very happy. Lizards indeed.
The 80's special effect was a nice touch too. Mmmmm, hamster. I just wish it was that stupid hamster dance hamster. I hate that sumbitch.
Posted by: admin at May 25, 2009 10:52 AM
Count me in on the V excitement. Elizabeth Mitchel looks like she might actually be acting in this one (as opposed to her turn on Lost).
Posted by: Cindy at May 25, 2009 10:55 AM
Mitchell.
Posted by: Cindy at May 25, 2009 10:55 AM
The Mountie's back! Yay!
Posted by: FabMax at May 25, 2009 11:23 AM
They were SERIOUS about V? I don't know whether to be excited or terrified.
I remember watching this when I was about 9 (around the same time I discovered my fear of clowns thanks to "It") and soon getting an irrational fear of all reptiles.
Posted by: Four Eyes at May 25, 2009 11:27 AM
I remember V from back in the day, it was the tits then and hopefully it will be the tits now.
Posted by: Guess Who! at May 25, 2009 11:37 AM
THAT'S what you're supposed to do with a hamster?
Oh. Then I've been inserting them in the wrong end.
Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at May 25, 2009 11:40 AM
Who is playing Ham Tyler? That's all I really care about.
I'm not sure about this one. First I was all like "Yay, I guess", and then I was like "Yay!", and then I was all like "Okay, not yay", and then I made a face like this -> o_O
Yes Brittany, Paul Gross is the only reason I'm going to give Eastwick a chance. The man can do no wrong.
Also, I never saw V when it first came out, but that hamster scene is the best. I hope the new one has lots of domestic pet eating too.
Posted by: OldSchool60 at May 25, 2009 12:12 PM
“I chicks would like a little more than eye candy, melodramatic music and faux-empowerment).”
The sad thing is chicks will lap it up. Girls keep telling me that I don't like chick flicks because I don't understand them. They're pink and fluffy, sweet, empowering and romantic... No I don't like them because most of them are dumb, disrespect a woman's intelligence, use the same tired plots and jokes and are deep as my kitchen sink. Can anyone explain to me why films/T.V for women has to be like this and why do women actually watch it? Or am I missing something?
Posted by: barf at May 25, 2009 12:25 PM
Can anyone explain to me why films/T.V for women has to be like this and why do women actually watch it? Or am I missing something?
I dunno. Films and TV for men are often mindless...I mean, guys fight, shit gets blowed up, there's big tits everywhere, farting is the pinnacle of comedy. Guys like it but that doesn't mean there's all there is to guys.
I supposed women enjoy this crap on the same level. It doesn't mean that's all there is to women. Personally, I hate gurl stuff like Eastwick. I hated the movie, too.
No. No. No. No No. No No. Can it be made illegal to put fart jokes in a movie ever again? It's not funny in any way, shape or form and being so popular with kids' movies it seems to give the message that it's perfectly ok to fart in public, in an elevator or wherver. Even the term is misleading. Fart joke? What's so joke-like about a fart? It's a pity that whole franchises have been built on fart jokes and other similar physical 'humour'. Apparently bursting a large pimple is also hilarious (Horror Movie or Date Movie or Epic movie, Onion Movie or whatever Movie they are producing now anyone?). The resounding question is Why? This seriously has to stop.
I do agree that many male movies are shite too jerce. I think the fact that they are aimed at a particular gender instantly makes them bad. Really good movies can be enjoyed by anybody.
Posted by: barf at May 25, 2009 12:55 PM
Count me in on the Paul Gross appreciation. I do hope they fix his hair, because even as a man entering his 50s (!) his natural hair really looks better than whatever style they're giving him.
Posted by: Sarah at May 25, 2009 1:20 PM
Is there any way Morena Baccarin can be on every tv show?
When we take over Hollywood, we need to put this on the list.
MOAR
Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at May 25, 2009 1:25 PM
Ah, it looks like Elizabeth Mitchell gets to do a project with another member of the Salinger family! Will she have flirtations with Bailey on V as she has with Charlie on Lost?
I don't know, that preview for V looks like a really really bad scifi movie. But that won't keep me from checking it out. Eastwick, on the other hand... there's no way I'm tuning in for that crap. It looks like Charmed with the addition of a witch pimp.
Posted by: little ya at May 25, 2009 1:26 PM
Holy Hamburgers! She was supposed to be the tranny that Mac dates in "It's Always Sunny"! I guess she's friends with the guy who plays Dennis. More Awesome!
Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at May 25, 2009 1:27 PM
One last bit of Inara news. She was the girl that Barney said had "crazy eyes" on How I Met Your Mother.
Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at May 25, 2009 1:29 PM
barf makes a good point. Movies and television aimed at a particular gender tend to suck. Women who have no masculinity to them are simpering idiots. Men who have no femininity to them are insufferable bores.
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at May 25, 2009 1:42 PM
"Films and TV for men are often mindless...I mean, guys fight, shit gets blowed up, there's big tits everywhere, farting is the pinnacle of comedy. Guys like it but that doesn't mean there's all there is to guys.
I supposed women enjoy this crap on the same level. It doesn't mean that's all there is to women."
It's nice of you to say that, but the fact is society tends to judge women as a whole much more frequently and harshly by the quality of so called "women's movies". Men are rarely defined by the action flicks they watch.
They aren't? Being a nerd (i.e loving Star Trek, Star Wars) etc is apparently male. Liking shit getting blown up is apparently male. Loving kisses and romance is apparently female. The truth is there are good nerdy films which anyone can enjoy and good romantic films which anyone can enjoy in the same way that there are terrible films in both genres. It's unfortunate that a whole genre was called chick flick. It will always be associated with females and unfortunately the films in that genre tend to be bad. Not because they are for chicks but simply because they are bad. For anyone.
Posted by: barf at May 25, 2009 2:06 PM
The reason that the majority of women don’t like comedy is because the majority of them don’t have a sense of humor, I do not say this with any venom. I have yet to find a woman that likes the “Three Stooges,” as far as I’m concerned the “Stooges” are my ground zero when I’m determining if I’m going to be with her long term. Now, action and horror movies are a different animal, the ladies will put up with those two genres if the end game is getting the man she wants.
Posted by: Guess Who! at May 25, 2009 2:10 PM
V looks promising, but where's Marc Singer?
Posted by: Melissa at May 25, 2009 2:11 PM
Yay! Paul Gross! Yes, he is the only reason to give the Eastwick show a chance...
I love Due South, but I think Slings & Arrows is my favorite of his (I suppose due to coming from a theatre family).
Posted by: zyzzyva at May 25, 2009 2:18 PM
So, does anyone know of anything worth watching during the summer?
Every good show is done for the season and...what am I going to do without tv?
figgy, may I suggest Burn Notice, which starts its new season June 4? Or rather, I suggest that you start watching Burn Notice if you know what's good for you.
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at May 25, 2009 3:19 PM
No. No. No. No No. No No. Can it be made illegal to put fart jokes in a movie ever again? It's not funny in any way, shape or form and being so popular with kids' movies it seems to give the message that it's perfectly ok to fart in public, in an elevator or wherver....
Posted by: barf at May 25, 2009 12:55 PM
May I just point out the irony of someone who goes by the name "barf" complaining about the tastelessness of bodily functions?
Posted by: spazmodeas at May 25, 2009 5:44 PM
Call me crazy but I find it sexy whenever a sexy woman passes gas, it lets me know that she is human.
Posted by: Guess Who! at May 25, 2009 5:54 PM
Marc Singer. Wow. That takes me back. Dude got so much work at the time, but after he played Tom Sullivan, he looked blind in every movie.
Isn't there a great MST ep for The Beastmaster? If not, there should be.
Anyway, yay for seeing Monica B and Alan T again, anywhere.
Posted by: Louise at May 25, 2009 6:03 PM
Go outside? What. Bite your tongue.
Posted by: figgy at May 25, 2009 2:22 PM
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Start a revolucion and take over all the movie theaters. The word "junta" just doesn't get used nearly enough for me, and a junta led by La Comandante Figgy would be awesome.
Or you can come up here and go see FOX Japan with me next month.
Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at May 25, 2009 6:50 PM
Hehe...going to the movies IS an option. But there ain't much want to see...
Generalisima Figgy does have an awesome ring to it.
Oh V looks fun. But I think the lizard reveal is unfair. If they are human they are good but if they are lizards they are automatically bad?? Thats specism. Why can't they be human (looking) and still bad.
But now this makes me think about how Ian Banks' Culture would go about doing first contact if they really are trying to help people. Of course they had a whole huge section trained for this end.
And a stupid nitpick: If the human face is only a mask then how come they look as good as Inara and do such a good job of being convincing? Maybe they have supercomputers (miniscule obviously) running the puppet face.
Posted by: ChrisD at May 25, 2009 7:17 PM
chicks would like a little more than eye candy, melodramatic music and faux-empowerment.
But...but... it's every woman's fantasy to fight with two other super-powered bitches/her best friends for some (meh) guy!
/sarcasm
Posted by: ceejeemcbeegee at May 25, 2009 10:52 PM
Tracer: For better or for worse, I trust you. I shall check it out!
You know, Chris D, I was thinking just the same thing about it being specism. Or the other thing is, why can't they be lizards and still be good? (of course they can't because we more or less know how the story goes)
I'm going to see this because of Inara and the 4400 guy in it! I didn't catch Tudyk in the trailer though, but I do love me some Wash.
Posted by: dene at May 26, 2009 12:28 AM
oh oh oh and James Wood!
Posted by: dene at May 26, 2009 12:32 AM
I agree with Seth that "V" could be either awesome or incredibly bad.
I would probably never watch "Eastwick" but with Paul Gross I won't be able to not watch. Slings & Arrows was a brilliant television series and I have been waiting for him to come back to the small screen. Looking forward to Passchendaele when Netflix finally gets copies of the film.
Posted by: chidingo at May 26, 2009 1:20 AM
HOLY CRACKERS!!The Canadian Royal Mounted Police's american ambassador type guy was THE DEVIL?!
No wonder he was so polite, sly mother fucker!!
Posted by: Nadine at May 26, 2009 3:59 AM
So, it's the Desperate Housewitches, then?
Posted by: gforcetwo at May 26, 2009 9:30 AM
Isn't there a great MST ep for The Beastmaster?
No, but "Cave Dwellers" starring Miles O'Keefe is pretty close.
V1 V! V! V! I was a devoted viewer in the 80's...Thought it was the bomb. Can't wait to see what they do with it now.
Eastwick? Who cares!
Posted by: Kelly Booth at May 26, 2009 11:42 AM
Are they going to follow the whole V storyline? Like will we have the twins born, the twins where one was reptile on the inside and human on the outside and the other that was human on the inside and reptile on the outside?
How about the red virus or the sand monsters...
I'm going off of memory here, so maybe I'm imagining a lot of this stuff.
Can we have Robert Englund back as the special needs Visitor who eats "mousies" out of dumpsters?
Posted by: Bane at May 26, 2009 12:12 PM
That header picture is going to give me nightmares. It looks like a thumb and a lizard spewing forth from Paris Hilton's chewed up labia. Scroll back up and look! You know it's what that mess looks like in real life.
Posted by: Porkchop at May 26, 2009 3:49 PM
Sand Monsters? I remember the Red Dust and the vocal reverb that disappeared, but not Sand Monsters.
I took me a minute to figure out what that header picture was. A very uncomfortable minute.