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Back in the '70s, Frank Zappa was under contract with Warner Brothers. The relationship had soured, he wanted out, but he still had four more albums to deliver. So, he went into the studio and crapped out four albums' worth of awful material, the worst of which was titled "Sleep Dirt".
HBO pulled the plug on "Deadwood", one of the best shows ever written for television. "John From Cincinnati" is a poorly written, poorly directed, poorly acted, meandering, and altogether pointless show. I'd been trying to make sense of it all, and the best I can come up with is that "John" is David Milch's "Sleep Dirt", a justifiably vindictive swipe at the executives who killed a phenomenal series in cold blood.
HBO shows famously take several episodes - even whole seasons - to develop, but I am OUT on this one.
