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[proximoception]

TV schedule the week of May 21, 2017 will include:

21 The Leftovers
21 Twin Peaks (2-hour premiere; 2 more episodes available online right after)
22 Better Call Saul
24 The Americans
24 Fargo

Across four days! People who love Deadwood more than me and are Sopranos fans might set some week c. 2007 against that, and technically the week with Ozymandias in it should be considered the best ever for at least decades, but that there is one peak looking week.

Comments

[jones-casey.livejournal.com]

i look forward to reading you on the leftovers when i get that far (the first episode was daunting). and if we ever get to the americans. and still only partway through season two of saul. and twin peaks, oh my, i hadn't heard the official date, i had been postponing reacquainting c. (four out five ain't bad).

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Not into Fargo? I'm a little cold on it too, but a lot in S2 was well done and surprisingly ambitious.

Leftovers, Fargo and The Americans have been improving drastically each season. I'd say the ever-exquisite Saul is the likeliest Lynch-challenger, but that fact gives me pause.

[(Anonymous)]

everything coenainted (tainted by coen) is right out. although i've heard enough negativity about it from people i trust to not feel like i'm missing anything. and as i say it, actually, there's next to nothing tv wise that i would feel i was missing out.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

I'd say the failings of Fargo S1 and to a lesser extent S2 have more to do with Hawley and co. not being the Coens.

Re. TV: fair enough. I think at least ten of the best twenty tv dramas ever are on the air this year, but they still can't compete with really good movies in most respects, let alone really good books. I think what I'm most taken by is the art of variation on display - the overall theme has to be present from the start, but a series doesn't get to declare its own end-date ... and has to churn out a War and Peace-rivalling number of script words annually. Scheherazade levels of inspiration are reached. Doesn't result in the best stories ever, but possibly some of the best (and sometimes subtlest) salvage jobs.

[jones-casey.livejournal.com]

as always you're quite right and insighted. the coens thing will always simply be a matter of taste, just as i'm not certain i'll ever give mccarthy much more of a look than i have.

but what you say about this new golden age i'm hearing a lot and i know that in some respects it's true. very few people can understand why we've been spending our hours in older series when the new ones are available. and i'm discovering things that haven't held up but the voyage is interesting.

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

That's insane!

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

I wanted to come back and read a post now gone...?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll reconstitute it someday.