Josh Brolin was the host of Saturday Night Live on Saturday, May 14, 2012. They had a Piers Morgan skit that examined the Trayvon Martin killing. It included an interview with our very own Ozzie Guillen, played by Josh Brolin. It is pretty funny. The Ozzie part of the skit is at the 3:10 point. The entire skit is about 6 minutes long. This is copied from Hulu.
The Killing on AMC is BORING!
15 Apr
If this review can stop just one person from wasting valuable living watching The Killing, it will be a success. The Killing never rewards their audience. Do not watch it thinking that answers are coming. They aren’t.
Santa Claus must have given The Killing writers Veena Sud and Soren Sveistrup a season blue-ray of HBO’s The Wire. It inspired them to create the most awful knock off I have ever seen. Instead of Baltimore and drugs, The Killing is a single murder in Seattle. The Killing is painful to watch. The writing is horrible. AMC must pay the writers Sud and Sveistrup like union tradesman, by the hour because they are milking the story for as much time as possible. The first 4 or 5 episodes were interesting. The story then continues to drag on and on, without ever resolving the case, or any sub plot. The subplots are OK, although they can become tedious. If after 13 hours of programming, the main story, the murder of Rosie Larson is not advanced at all, it should become a sub plot. This series does not reward the viewer by answering any questions, ever. It merely reveals red herrings, and it does this so it can end each episode and return next week, and next season.
Season 1′s 13 episodes are supposed to cover 13 days of an investigation to find the killer of Rosie Larson, a teenage girl. This would be ok, if the show and characters could hold your interest for the full hour. The only reason I kept watching was because I wanted to know who killed Rosie Larson. At first I thought they were dropping clues, after 6 or 7 hours you realize nothing is relevant. What I thought were clues are just red herrings. After the 9th or 10th episode, I pretty much stopped watching, just leaving it on in the background. The commercials have become more interesting then the TV show.
One of episode 1′s early scenes has Detective Sarah Linden jogging up on a dead seal. If anyone can explain the significance of this, please do. It hasn’t been referenced. I have wasted a lot of living on The Krappy Ass Killing and it’s shitty story. It is not Twin Peaks, it is not The Wire, it is pure. It is bad and boring. A scam that got me. Not for season 2 though. Fool me once shame on you Veena Sud and Soren Sveistrup. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The characters are not believable or realistic.
Detective Linden, a salty Seattle Detective quitting the job to move to California, but cannot seem to get on the plane. A single mom who doesn’t do an ounce of real parenting. They say she is retiring, but she looks like a very small young girl. She ferociously chews nicorette gum, yet never eats, sleeps, goes to the bank, or pretty much anything, except work the case. And yes, the case. One case. With complete autonomy. She apparently also likes working for free, because my experience as a Chicago Firefighter has taught me that when you retire, you stop drawing a paycheck, overtime and benefits. I assume the Seattle PD is the same.
Detective Holder, a young new homicide detective that wears the same clothes (a hoodie, not suit) everyday. He also talks like Vanilla Ice. Of course through the course of his young career he has become a junkie, and is now regularly found in the company of his “potentially involved in the murder of Rosie” NA sponsor.
Rosie’s parents, Mitch (a woman) and Stan Larson. Over 13 days Rosie was killed, Stan almost beats a man to death. He is incarcerated, bailed out, bought and sold a home. Mitch, Stan’s wife is equally busy deciding to abandon the surviving children in the family to follow her dreams of seeing the world. Mitch has a sister Terry that actually raises the 2 young brothers of Rosie, even though Mitch is a stay at home mother. Terry can be considered Stan’s bullpen bride. Stan’s moving truck must be bringing home a lot of loot to be able to support his wives and children.
Terry and Mitch are sisters. Yes, Mitch is a woman, and I do not know what Mitch is short for. They appear to be Polish, or are meant to be. They make golabki (stuffed cabbage) for dinner, even though they pronounce it wrong. I am also using my own experience here, as being Chicago Polish. Stan was once an enforcer and bagman for the Seattle Polish mob. He also had a gambling monkey on his back. He left the life when Mitch was pregnant with Rosie. His former mob boss drops off punchki’s to the Larson boys. He wants to help find the killer, but Stan doesn’t want to go back to being mobbed up. Terry and Mitch’s mom has the strangest accent, not even close to Polish. As a man who appreciates stereotypes, my only request is to make them seem real, or make them over the top. Just do not make them bore me to tears.
Politicians that are corrupt, idealistic, naive, dangerous, compromised, and in over their head. The politicians are so deep and dark, they actually are all of the above.
Wealthy degenerate businessmen that support politicians. Drinking, and drugs. Gambling $5 million on a single free throw shot, then spending even more on high end Beau Soleil escorts that swim in glass bottom pools.
The Killing wants to be The Wire. The Killing cannot be The Wire, because The Wire was a great show that always rewarded the audience. The Wire left a hole on cable that hasn’t been filled, and I miss it. When McNulty quit on the The Wire, he meant it. Pity Sarah Linden only threatens to quit, and continues to return.
I can continue to complain about The Killing, but I have already wasted 13 hours on this program. Now I must stop. Time to take my talents someplace where they are less wasted. Time to delete spam from my email inbox. If an eternal Seattle drizzle and cigarettes were fun to watch, this show would be perfect. If you think a cliche, slow and boring story equals cerebral, dark and well written, The Killing is for you.
Tags: AMC, cable, entertainment, TV
Saint Maria Goretti
12 AprMaria Goretti (October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902) is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused to submit to him.
All three of her brothers would claim that she intervened miraculously in their lives. Angelo heard her voice telling him to emigrate to America. Sandrino was reportedly miraculously given a sum of money to finance his own emigration to join Angelo. Sandrino died in the United States in 1917, and Angelo died in Italy when he returned there in 1964. The third brother, Mariano, said he heard her voice telling him to stay in his trench when the rest of his unit charged the Germans in World War I. Mariano, the only survivor of that charge, lived until 1975 and had a large family.
Maria Goretti Wikipedia entry can be found here.
I like how in the canonization procedure, it is considered to be a miracle that St. Maria Goretti’s brother Mariano was saved by the “advice” from her in a WW1 battle by being the only soldier not to leave his foxhole, and charge the Germans. Mariano was the only survivor. I suspect Mariano may have decided not to charge on his own.
What’s the thinnest book in the library?
A list of Italian war heroes.
The first thing the Italian army requisitions before starting a war is-
5000 white handkerchiefs.
How many gears on an Italian tank?
6, 1 forward gear and 5 reverse.
For Sale – Used Italian Rifles WW1 and WW2
Never fired, dropped once, footprint on the barrel.
Any reasonable offer considered.
Open letter to Chicago White Sox & Kenny Williams
7 DecI cannot watch another season of Dunn and Rios, unless you keep Buehrle and of course, Konerko. I have a lot of Sox fans in my family and friends, we are going to boycott the dismantling of the fans favorite White Sox players, because we have 3 contracts in Dunn, Rios and Peavey that no other team will take.
I’ll buy my 2012 hat, and set up my game schedule when you resign Buerhle. If you do not resign #56, I’ll be back when you guys make the playoffs, and even then, my investment as a fan will be tough to commit.
Too many moves, like the Ventura appointment seem like buying time, rather then trying to win baseball games. I don’t need to buy tickets and pay $7.50 for a Miller Lite to watch players that have no heart, or are rookies that I never heard of, getting coached up by a first year manager with no coaching experienceThe least you can do for the fans is sign the players we love, that are White Sox.
John Sostak
Tags: Baseball
