tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post6512803570648405895..comments2023-04-30T07:27:54.645-07:00Comments on <b>HUNGRY GHOST BLOG</b>: "Professor Nabokov, may I be excused?"David Chutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-80920148500915688812010-09-28T07:19:15.759-07:002010-09-28T07:19:15.759-07:00More people watched "Two and a Half Men"...More people watched "Two and a Half Men" last week than watched the final episode of "The Sopranos".<br /><br />Define your terms: If your definition of "making it big" means "making it seem new enough to entrance the chattering classes", then sure enough, you can't make it big without making it seem new enough to entrance the chattering classes.<br /><br />If you want popularity, try watching the top ten scripted television series some week. I dare you.<br /><br />(BTW, the first episode of Boardwalk was so terrible I'm resisting watching the second.... "Make it new": surely you jest. A mobster falls in love with an innocent woman and reveals the hidden man within? That's a lot of things, but 'new' isn't the word that comes to mind.)Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-60434097963194761682010-09-27T16:01:53.929-07:002010-09-27T16:01:53.929-07:00A couple of timely observations in Tim Appelo'...A couple of timely observations in Tim Appelo's TOH update on "Boardwalk Empire 102":<br /><br />"Darmody unwisely blows his heist money on bling for his wife and stripper mom (in a <b>nicely uncomfortable</b> scene, we first mistake Gretchen Mol for Darmody’s moll – how weird that she’s his ma!)."<br /><br />"The Sopranos hit big because it felt innovative and true, a distinct variation on gangster drama traditions. True Blood and Twilight hit because they updated vampire legends. To make it big, you have to make it seem new, yet rooted in genre."David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.com