I’ve been waiting to see how they’d handle this one, but I got home too late last night to catch it. In retrospect, I’m glad I didn’t have to watch them s-s-st-r-et-ch this story over a whole hour. I caught the last couple of minutes, which was all I really wanted to see anyway. The doctor looked down and was surprised. Sigh.
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
I liked this one quite a bit, although, like all the others, it just wasn’t enough material for an hour-long show. I did get irritated close to the beginning when they started trying to make what was essentially a cute little Twilight-Zone flavored tale into A Terrifying Story by STEPHEN KING, MASTER OF HORROR! Must they always do that? I’m referring specifically to the moment when Steven Weber was trying to drag the tree out of the road and his wife had that SCARY!!! vision of both of them being very old. (Coincidentally the moment when I got the first eye-roll from my husband.)
May I just insert right here that I love Steven Weber? Thank you.
Anyway, the show lightened up after that, although I don’t remember the wife being such a bitch. It was like watching an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. I enjoyed all the dead rock star impersonators. However, my son was a little disappointed at the end because we weren’t going to get to see the concert.
Oy. I was really looking forward to this episode, despite the hit or miss history of the other episodes. I don’t know what was more distracting; Richard Thomas’s hammy voiceover or his pasty naked body and the strategically placed microphone or light or whatever it was. I knew it would be hard to translate this story to film, but jeez, I don’t know what the heck that was. I hated the wife. I hated the two doctors doing the autopsy. I think it might have been the worse episode they made.
The second story was kind of fun, though I agree the wife was not a sympathetic character and I wanted Ronnie Van Zandt to chop her. And yes, Steven Weber rocks!
I could have done without seeing Janis puke up maggots.
I was sort of looking forward to seeing her belt out one of my favorite lines from that story: “This ain’t no dine-and-dash, you crotch!” but the way she delivered it, in a fade-away growl robbed the line of its giggle-power.
In all “Hell of a Band” and “End of the Whole Mess” were probably the best segments. They’re the only ones which didn’t suffer from being stretched to filll an hour slot. I really wish they would have let the story themelve dictate the length, making more of them, if need be, or a shorter series.
I liked them both. Maybe because I really wasn’t expecting much after last week. Nothing profound, but I don’t care. It’s summer. I can watch fluff if I want to.
I had the opposite reaction to the husband and wife in the second one. I thought he was kind of a dick, and she had every right to be pissed at him. He started pissing me off when he was ogling and flirting with Janis Joplin in front of his wife. Then at the end, he was all, “Aw, c’mon honey! It’ll be great to spend eternity here with a bunch of psycho dead rock stars!”
I did kinda want to see the concert though. I really wanted to see Kurt Cobain.
Oh and I forgot; did anyone notice when Richard Thomas said “I’m freezing invisible” ? Did I misshear it and he actually said “I’m freezing andinvisible”? 'Cause it sure didn’t sound like it. It seemed like those lame dubbings they do to censor profanity. Did anyone else catch that?
I didn’t like the first one–for one thing, I had a really hard time getting my mind around John-Boy Walton naked and having erections. ::shudder:: I think it would have been better if they’d cast somebody a little less well known for playing a goody-two-shoes character. For a second, he overacted. Badly. I know it’s hard when all you can do it talk while your pasty body lies on a slab, but still… For a third, they just dragged it out waaaayyyy too long.
The second one was okay, but so far none of them have really impressed me that much. I enjoyed most of the stories they were based on, so I was expecting something better.
I was thinking the whole time that we needed gabriela MSt3King the autopsy ep. The funniest part to me was the shot from above with the strategically placed lamp. He was very hairless and his package certainly didn’t take up much room.
So now that he is happy to be alive, his dick will be fully functional?
