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Television can be so darn interesting once you get around to watching it.
I was actually wondering how many other people caught tonight's series premiere of Desperate Housewives. The promotionals made it look presentable and even a bit funny, but sort of like it would either be absolutely pathetic or a tasteless comedy. It ended up being neither of those things.
It's narrated by a wife of Wisteria Lane who starts the show off by commiting suicide, and then goes on to describe the other 'desperate' housewives of the neighborhood. With characters that aren't too cliched and perfectly executed with dark wit and humor, the story is intriguing and the script very well written. The narration reminds me of a book sometimes, but it works for the show. Lines like "My son woke up three nigths after my funeral to a sound...it was a familar sound that he had heard once before when he was a very small boy, it was the sound of a family secret." Not exactly something you hear in tv shows, but it works. So those are my thoughts, what does anybody else whose seen it think?
I was actually wondering how many other people caught tonight's series premiere of Desperate Housewives. The promotionals made it look presentable and even a bit funny, but sort of like it would either be absolutely pathetic or a tasteless comedy. It ended up being neither of those things.
It's narrated by a wife of Wisteria Lane who starts the show off by commiting suicide, and then goes on to describe the other 'desperate' housewives of the neighborhood. With characters that aren't too cliched and perfectly executed with dark wit and humor, the story is intriguing and the script very well written. The narration reminds me of a book sometimes, but it works for the show. Lines like "My son woke up three nigths after my funeral to a sound...it was a familar sound that he had heard once before when he was a very small boy, it was the sound of a family secret." Not exactly something you hear in tv shows, but it works. So those are my thoughts, what does anybody else whose seen it think?
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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
T.S Eliot, "Preludes"
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
T.S Eliot, "Preludes"
