Letters to the Editor
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Only see a brief snippet
But the basic idea that this entire family of middle aged hyper aggressive hyper successful people can just drop everything and sit around someone's house forever while they sort out their childhoods is laughably stupid. Who's doing the laundry, paying the bills?
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Yay, Heather's back!
I've been so lost, wandering through channels full of banality with no one to guide me.
Also, does anyone but me always imagine tomreedtoon's letters being read in the Comic Book Guy's voice?
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To the mother of all cr...criti...commenta...cartoonists!
Hoo-ray! Heather, motherhood serves you well. I especially enjoyed the ride to the deeper meaning of "heat-miser" hair. You've helped me appreciate the subtle things in our boundless media stream.
Still can't remember the days I had a tv.
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Hooray!
Heather's back! The long Natonal Nightmare is over!
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Chickens?
I read this woman periodically and have always wondered how she got and kept a job. Rambling? Self-indulgent? What understaement! But "chickens" made it very clear to me how she keeps this job. She obviously has pictrures of the editor have sexual relations with the chickens' fellow barnyard dwellers(I could say barnyard animals...but oh, how demeaning to them). In this case, no, every case, Heather Hravilesky makes me retch.
Josie
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so what?
Hey! It's a fictional television show!!!! Not a reality show! Get over it!
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Spare me the partisan lies
I watched about 15 minutes of one episode of Brothers and Sisters. As soon as Calista starting spouting angrily about how Bill Clinton abandoned his responsibility for dealing with homeland security because he had to deal with the Monica Lewinsky issue I grabbed the remote and was gone. It seems to me that ABC has been on overdrive trying to make us believe that lie.
And, what's more, the show is lame.
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Then coffee spurted out of my beak...
As a chicken who teaches high school, and procrastinates, the only thing that can bring me to finish grading essays on Sunday nights is bad television laden with pathos. For that reason, the exchange in ABC's lineup of "Grey's Anatomy" for "Brothers and Sisters" initially disturbed me. How would I manage to get my work done before the new work week? However, as Heather aptly pointed out, the cloying nature of the later show works wonders on procrastination. While watching it I become so disgusted with the dialogue that I am motivated to speed through my grading in hopes of being able to turn off the tely before the show's grand, Utopian, touchy-feely finale! Reading her commentary made my morning coffee shoot out of my beak for the first time this weekend. Bravo.
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Mazel Tov Heather
on the birth of your beautiful daughter. And congrats to the handsome father, as well. Btw, I thought you were a rabbit, not a chicken.
love and hugs, conet
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Heather, YOU rule!
Welcome back, I missed you!
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retch: she's baaack
Oh damn, Heather's back. The queen of using 25 words to say what five will do nicely.
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Brothers & Sisters is GREAT!
I have carefully watched each episode of Brothers & Sisters and each one has been great. This is entertainment for the end of the day when one is just relaxing.
I like everything about the series: acting, writing, story, characters and also the wonderful music. My demographic is over age 50 male. I can't believe that Heather found nothing of value with the series. I watched all the new shows at least once and this is by far the best. I look forward to it. I also grew up in Los Angeles my first 20 years if that makes a difference.
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Allow Me To Get Tom Reed's Back
Aside from the fact that WhoNvitedHim is either Heather's husband or bestest buddy, he's also confused. Heather - I use her first name not out of a false sense of intimacy but because I can't be bothered to remember her last - started off her professional life as a plebian copy editor at Salon, way back in the day. Then she and some middling talented friends founded Suck in their spare time. Suck was pretty good, and Heather, under the nom de plume "Polly Esther" was pretty damn funny. In fact at times her "Filler" column was fucking hilarious, if one-dimensional. But still and all she and the rest of the Suck gang were and remain grossly overrated. They were very much of their time.
The key to Heather's ascendancy has no doubt been access. People who know David Talbot go places. Like Joan Walsh, for instance, who has completely ruined Salon. I have a feeling that Heather was Joan's butt-girl back in the day and, connections being everything in the media biz, when Joan climbed the golden staircase she brought loyal Heather right along with her. But what to do with Heather? Her edgy, profane brand of social observation wouldn't do for the newer, "softer" Salon, so how about...TV critic?? Sure!
And that, give or take a few details, is how Heather landed this "plumb job." You see, WhoNvitedHim, Heather is not a cartoonist. Terry Colon illustrated her stuff at Suck. And she's not really much of a blogger, either (and I say that out of disappointment; when Suck died and I found out about "Rabbit" I couldn't wait to read it - and was let down). One can see the battle going on in her columns on TV, between her interesting, edgy self and her bland, uninteresting self. And yes, her style is very weak, especially for a major publication. As much as I hate to admit it, Salon is now in the big leagues, so Heather's peers are cats like Howard Kurtz, John Simon and James Wolcott. Sorry, no contest, she isn't even close to being in the same galaxy as those guys, let alone the same league. In fact compared to them she frankly stinks.
And THAT, WhoNvitedHim, is what annoys Tom Reed, and me, and many, many others. Yes, connections will always be important, but these days they're about the ONLY thing that counts. And that just Sucks.
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one more reason to hate Brothers & Sisters
HH--glad you're back! also glad to finally read something negative about this horribly sappy and uninteresting series, one of the many this season.
but you neglected to mention one more truly annoyingly subpar thing about this show--rachel griffiths. one can only imagine what her experience must be like, having to perform this drivel after years of six feet under. i guess she needs the money or something. still, what a come down.
anyway, the things that just bugs me about her performance is her accent! she's australian, and for the entire run of six feet under, you'd never have known it. now, perhaps i was distracted by the excellent acting, writing, directing, etc. of that show, but she's constantly using australian intonations on brothers & sisters. is even she so appalled at the wretched dialogue that she can't perform well? it's really surprising, coming from her.
next time you watch it, if any of you ever do again, listen for her australian accent. it's all over the place. it's almost as bad as brad pitt's in seven years in tibet.