Entertainment Weekly #874/#875 April 28, 2006/May 5, 2006 Tom Hanks on the cover (double issue)
DVD page: 121
'American' Bad! by: Ken Tucker rating: F
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God, I hate (to put it mildly, as an atheist, I hope there IS a "God" JUST so Seth MacFarlane gets raped and tortured in Hell for eternity when he's dead as payback for 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad!') these shows. They provide no good use and only damage society.
While I'm no fan of either AD or FG, I think it's a rather wild overstatement that any show is capable of "damaging society." uh, uh. Sorry. A couple of cartoons that reach mayb 2 or 3 percent of the American population aren't capable of much "damage."
Fox News network however...
[email] wrote:
Also, this is the same mag that said Prison Break is tanking, when most will agree its one of the best hours on free tv.
.. Garondo Marondo!
GarondoMarondo sez:
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Er, um, quality does not equal ratings. In fact, the better a show is, the fewer people it attracts, 'cuz people don't want quality, they want bombs and sex and firefights. More people will watch a train wreck than a train running smoothly.
Jax wrote:
Um... let's see: Deal Or No Deal? Yes. Celebrity Cooking Showdown? No. It's hit and miss as far as train wreck watching goes. Little People, Big World. Apparently, yes.
Nope, they were definitely speaking about the show creatively tanking, which is ABSURD!!!
.. Garondo Marondo!
[email] wrote:
EW is tanking creatively if you ask me. The editorial and design changes they've made in the last few years have hastened it's demise as relavant. The latest redesign is awful, I can hardly stand to look at it.
It's newstand sales are tanking too, so I know I'm not alone in this assesment (and most of my pop culturally attuned friends think so as well).
And I agree Prison Break ROCKS! I am so back into this show. I know it's stupid and unlikely, but I just LOOOOOOVE the charactors. I want Michael out, I'm even buying into the Michael/Dr. Sarah romance (which surprises me, cause I'm jaded and get nauseated with TV hook-ups. I think I got more intrigued when I found out Dr. Sarah used to be a druggie).
Anyway, it's such a cool show.
I think Lady Lawyer's friend is now a mole cause they're holding a family member of his hostage.
"Jax" wrote in message news:[email]...
A train wreck is quality entertainment, a train running smoothly is not. You've just provided an example which disproved your assertion.
[email] wrote:
True. It's hit and miss w/ EW most of the year. But their review of UPN's(shity, shity, shity) 'All Of Us' (and that arrogant bastard Will Smith) is dead on accurate. A preachy PSA when the little black boy dares utter the "N"-word makes me think: "Oh, so I'm watching a mid-'90s throw-back to The Parent 'Hood."
Taylor wrote:
Actually, except for one paragraph, the review is a slam of FG (for example, he mentions the joke where Ray Charles is accompanying Ella Fitzgerald on the piano when she sings her high note that shatters a glass on the piano, causing the glass shards to blind him); the last paragraph refers to "one random, interchangeable joke after another", which there is very little of in AD (in fact, that's probably why most FG fans hate it - it's FG without most of the things that make FG funny).
Tucker also mentions that he's the EW reporter whose neck Stewie snaps on the red carpet at the beginning of "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", which leads me to ask, why let him review the AD DVD in the first place?
-- Don
Don Del Grande wrote:
But the daughter's tired liberal vegetarian stand is interchangeable and done funnier in the '90s during 'Roseanne'.
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:14:18 GMT, Don Del Grande wrote:
This was my reaction, too. I'm NOT a fan of American Dad -- I actively *despise* the show and I think it was a totally unfair review given Tucker and MacFarlane's mutual animosity. Same thing as having Christopher Hitchens write a review of Hillary Clinton's autobiography -- an interesting trainwreck to watch in and of itself, but what's the fucking point? You already know that he hates her to the point that he has no problem with misrepresenting every single thing she says -- even the *many* things I don't like about Hillary, he wastes credibility and energy on bloviating and misrepresenting for its own sake, so it holds no value whatsoever as a review. Same with Tucker and MacFarlane.
-- Rob
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:54:32 -0500, Rob Jensen wrote:
I just had to add this because it just occurred to me:
Although I gotta wonder now if Tucker *thinks* he's satirically reviewing the show the way he thinks MacFarlane would write such a review if he were writing it about a show that he didn't make. I think that Tucker is an otherwise talented reviewer of things not-MacFarlane and I think that that would be too Meta of Tucker if he really were trying to do his impression of how he thinks a MacFarlane-written review would read. He's clearly failing at it if that's what he's doing.
-- Rob
O Brother Where Art Thou? got an F in EW when it came out.
Speaking of EW, what happened? It's a barely readable mess now. Whatever happened to Winner/Loser of the Week, Dalton Ross' column, Barry Blitt cartoons, et al.?
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On 25 Apr 2006 07:35:37 -0700, "brian henke" wrote:
The Blitt cartoons ended a *long* time ago. It got a makeover it didn't need about a month ago and Ross stopped doing the Hot Sheet around that time.
The articles -- news, features *and* reviews alike -- are still as worthwhile as they've ever been, barring the occasional misstep like Tucker's review of American Dad (and mind you, I hate the show, but think that Tucker's hatchet job review was uncalled for), but the new art direction of the magazine totally sucks. It's actually *harder* to read than it used to be because nothing flows visually.
-- Rob
I think the news stories are now awful. Dalton Ross took over the "hot sheet" from Jim Mullen at the time of the last redesign (not the one they just did a month ago). Dalton does some good stuff but the Hot Sheet was not one of them. The new guy's even worse. I don't even bother to read it anymore. And it USED to crack me up!
On 25 Apr 2006 17:15:49 -0700, "[email]" wrote:
I think EW shoud hire Amy and Dan Palladino to write the Hot Sheet. I hear they need jobs.
-- Rob
I'm not sure it's a journalist's (or his editor's) responsibility to recuse themselves when a subject makes them a target.
[email] wrote:
Apparently Ken Tucker isn't snart enough to understand the show.
Ditto for you.
"Taylor" wrote in message news:vka3g.700$[email]...
You should move to North Korea. Their government will not allow any television show, book, public speech or communication which could damage society. You'd love it!
That Guy wrote:
;-) Isn't F.G. probably _made_ in N. Korea?
Taylor wrote:
South Korea or China, I think - it may depend on which animation company actually handles it. (The Simpsons uses three different companies, for example.)
-- Don