HBO's "K Street"-- anyone watching?

[Happy_Lendervedder]

For those unclear of K Street’s concept (as I was until I checked out HBO.com):

From www.HBO.com
K STREET is a new weekly series that ventures inside the world of powerful political consultants–a world that few people ever experience first-hand. Produced on location in Washington, D.C., the largely improvised ten-episode series combines fictional characters with appearances by real-life political figures, all centered around the biggest political news of the week. Each episode will be shot within days of its premiere on HBO, guaranteeing a relevance and vitality beyond what any series has attempted before.

“We’ll look at the newspapers and political shows on Sunday mornings; spend the next three days shooting in D.C., edit and be on the air on Sunday night,” says executive producer George Clooney.

Steven Soderbergh adds, “If we’ve chosen a story that’s breaking, we can literally turn the camera on, add this new element to the story–stick it in the show.”

I missed episode 1, but caught most of last night’s episode.

I’m a political junkie, so I when I heard about this show, I thought it would be right up my alley. I thought it was going to be actual footage of lobbyists and political consultants in Washington doing their thing.

But then I’m watching it, and I’m thinking, "Hey! Wasn’t this guy on ‘Ed?’ "

And then one of the female characters awkwardly confronts an associate at a sidewalk cafe, and tells her to “Fuck off.”

So then I realized it was fiction. Sort of a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for politicos.

Anyway, I’m not really sure yet if I’m going to like this show. It’s sort of a “mockumentary,” which I typically like as a genre, but to me this show was a little confusing. I wish they’d put the names of the characters and RL people on the bottom of the screen as they enter a scene so we know who they are (like in a real documentary). But maybe I’m just slow, or am not really used to the concept yet.

Any other thoughts?

Happy

[gobear]

As a DC local, I enjoyed the “Oh, I know that place” and “Oh, I love that restaurant” but the show itself is as dull as a high school trigonometry class.

[Michael_Ellis]

I thought it was the most godawful half-hour of rubbish I’ve ever seen on TV. Worse than Manos: The Hands of Fate.

And that “Different Color Filters for Different Scenes” pseudo-style crap is really wearing thin. It worked, more or less, in Traffic, but it really fails here.