I like good Comedies and I cannot lie!
Somehow I think drama shows are as predictable as a dog’s time to pee. I don’t usually follow them, I stick to a few and that’s pretty much it. Why such a fuss around a show like Game Of Thrones? Seriously, that’s just Duke Nukem with loads of relatives and a fancy script: gore and boobs. Neeeeeext…
2k14 left us with a bunch of shows to remember. The first that comes to mind would be Californication. I recall the show’s first few seasons and they were just staggering to watch. Not just for the vintage Bukowski glances it portrayed but for the several characters that moved us, with whom we had a blast for many years.
Cali wasn’t all for the laughs. But it was a genuinely inspiring show and a breeze of fresh air in its primordial ‘Hank Moodyness’. Duchovny’s character will forever stand as one of TV’s most humanizing reminders of our mental embedded code: happiness around the corner, shit hittin’ the fan throughout the straight long line…
Parks & Rec brought us the best ensemble cast a short comedy could ever ask for. Chris Pratt, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Rob Lowe, Adam Scott and Amy Poehler were, in my opinion, the best (alongside Community) funny group of people to ever walk on our notebook/television screens. Purely magical stuff going on weekly.
Louie is not a ‘Seinfelded’ version of the comic’s constant dates with weirdness. It just so happens it surpasses Seinfeld in its originality, own brand of surrealistic humor and even in scriptwriting. Louis C.K. etches n’sketches random parts of an episode then still finds time to edit, star and steal the whole show. Alone. Not happy with this, you can still find Robin Williams or Ricky Gervais lost down there. Louie is a top short comedy, not openly funny and beautifully sad when it wants too. It’s the comic’s DNA: it makes you laugh when you’re least expecting.
From the dude that brought us Office Space came Silicon Valley, a fast-paced and offline version of all-things 2.0 and 3.0 to be. This show hit the sweet spot like no other in terms of premise (probably the first to blatantly ‘harass’ the holy ground of San Fran’s best known… commodities?!) and joke count. A serious must watch for everyone, not just the techie wacko but also the analog homo dumbassus.
Again from Michael Schur (Parks & Rec) came a FOX show (!) called Brooklyn Nine-Nine that is NOT an Andy Samberg showroom anymore. You get your favorite Terry Crews lying around. You get your daily fix of Chelsea Peretti’s cra-zy. You get a character that does pretty Less the things Parks & Rec’s Jerry did. AND you get Andre Braugher!
I’m now diving in Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback… comeback
waiting for Silicon Valley second season
and Louie’s shortened fifth season
SO… LET IT BE REMEMBERED THAT
#comedy is what Television should be caring about in the years to come! I’ll be writing for it! And waiting for it!
(also, fuck The Big Bang Theory!)
