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I’m not sure there’s ever a good time for an idiot-savant Christ figure to stage a dissociative fringe theater monologue on a weekly T.V. show, but Heather sure as hell didn’t have patience for it this week!
“If there were enough big, beautiful moments, or even little, poignant or sweet moments to nourish us, then fine.” Absolutely! And so far I’ve gotten plenty of those moments. Another sustaining factor is humor, which I haven’t heard many people mention but I think this show is fucking hilarious, and in a smart, absurd, and self-deprecating way. I love the peanut gallery at the hotel.. “A young Henry Kissenger.” Are you kidding? That’s fucking GOLD!
John From Cincinnati is merely the continuation of Deadwood by other means. Same heart, same moments of sweet humanity in the midst of confusion and cruelty. Hell, it’s got half the same cast now! I’m glad to see other seemingly rational and intelligent people are getting something from the show instead of bewailing their precious dramas of yore, all tied up in a sack and throwed in the river by them cruel and myopic HBO execs. Relax, watch it without trying to put all the pieces together or expecting a nice, neat, boring payoff each week (or ever, maybe! oh no!) and you might just get something out of it.
