Letters to the Editor
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TV Reviewing
Heather is a great writer, but I sure don't envy her beat. There are so few shows that I can stand watching, and when I think of having to make my living by having something to say about them, well, uggh.
Whether it is this Brian show of which she writes, or any of the genre, the result is the same: a bunch of 30 somethings meet for brunch, as she suggests, or they jog, or shop, or walk in the park, or are painting their living room, or are meeting for dinner, or are at a bar trying to meet men/women or are doing any of a million other pieces of business, often all in the same supposed day, and it's quip, quip, quip, quip, quip quip, quip all the live-long day, but if you notice no one will ever laugh at someone's quip, or even crack a smile, and the person who says it will never say something like, "Hey, come on, that was a pretty good quip there."
No, they'll just quip. Reciting quip after quip as if the secret of the show really turns out to be that they are all, in reality, dead, and they now must go through eternity trapped in a hellish prision of compulsive quipiness forever and ever world without end.
For me, it's depressing realizing how much money writers are pulling down for all this, and not one of them seems to have the slightest clue of how to put together a sustained moment or sequence as exemplified by the Don Knotts clip.
I watch that show all the time, and I'm amazed how really funny a lot of it is, and not a quip in sight.