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• Monday, July 23, 2007 07:13 PM

  the wire and JFC

  Heather...it'd be a very interesting piece if you could do a little digging into just WHY *The Wire* has been so completely ignored by the Emmys (except for one writing award for the first or second season, if I recall correctly). I'd be very interested in a hard-hitting piece on just what in hell's going on. The Wire was so *obviously* the best show on television last year. It's not even a competition. In a perfect world, *The Wire* would take every award in every category it could qualify for. The fact that it's been nominated for nothing at all just demonstrates the complete bankruptcy of the Emmys.

  The standard story is that Emmy voters vote their wallets. And since The Wire is not shot in Hollywood, and does not use name Hollywood actors, it gets ignored, since very few or none of the Emmy voters will get work from show.

  If that's true, and it probably is, it's about as pathetic a thing as I've heard lately. Emmy voters? If you're here, you suck.

  As for JFC, I was with it until two weeks ago...then, I gave up. I went from being enchanted to feeling like my chain was being yanked. I also noticed that my enchantment diminished in direct proportion to the disappearance of the surfing sequences. In the first episode, when everything's totally fucked up, and Mitch says "let's get wet" it just made my day. Because, as a life-long surfer myself, there's nothing to beat a session to put life into perspective. It's all waiting for you when you come out of the water, but while you're out there, you're part of something much bigger, and your problems fade away.

  I can't believe Milch hasn't make more out of that.

  Instead, he's doing a domestic drama that makes very little sense (folks, storytelling really is important..and it's not for amateurs)...some of this I chalk up to Steve Hawk, who is one of the biggest hot-air balloons in a business full of them. If you heard him in Riding Giants (or was it Step into Liquid. I forget now) you know what I mean. Talk about a guy who takes himself too seriously..brother. He's a bad joke. When I saw he was involved, I knew there would be trouble.

  I'm sorry the show is crashing. I think it had real potential, squandered by people who, apparently, don't have a David Chase or a David Simon keeping them honest, and making them remember what the point is: tell a good story.

  —had_enough Read had_enough's other letters
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